Chisora explains Joshua role in helping him spring upset on Fury

Derek Chisora is managed by Anthony Joshua’s 25 Management (Image: Sky Sports/ 258 Management )Anthony Joshua is serving as a distraction to Tyson Fury, believes Derek Chisora ahead of their fight. Del Boy claims that AJ is living in Fury’s head ‘rent free’ and that the WBC champion can’t do an interview without mentioning his fierce rival.Joshua was expected to face Fury on December 3. However, negotiations fell through after communication dropped at the eleventh hour. As a result, Chisora was approached as an alternative opponent on the same date.Since the breakdown in talks between Fury and Joshua, a lot of fingers have been pointed as to who is to blame for the deal falling apart. The Gypsy King believes AJ’s ego got in the way and that Eddie Hearn is too concerned about losing his ‘cash cow’.Frank Warren recently told Express Sport that he believes Fury vs Joshua will never happen, yet the Mancunian continues to mention Joshua’s name.’AJ is living in Tyson’s head rent-free,’ Chisora told Sky Sports. ‘Tyson wakes up every day thinking about AJ and cannot do an interview without mentioning him. AJ is off living his life, doing his own thing. I don’t know why Tyson keeps talking about AJ.’He added: ‘AJ could not take the fight because there were so many complications with sponsors and promoters. The fighters always want to fight, just fight, but the complications come from the businesspeople around them who get in the way.’MORE BOXING NEWS…Wilder suffers grim career-low number of PPV buys despite Helenius KOUsyk clears up Wilder confusion and makes appeal to FuryPaul dishes dirt on Tate and gives main reason fight fell apart Derek Chisora faces Tyson Fury for a third time on December 3 (Image: GETTY)Chisora was confident he would get the call after he defeated Kubrat Pulev in July but admits that it wasn’t a simple process getting the fight together. “I knew the fight was happening straight after I beat Pulev,” Chisora insisted.”The managers and promoters get in the way; they make it difficult. Even this fight and contract was a headache stressing me out. People always think making a big fight is easy but it’s always such a headache.”There had been discussions to stage a third fight between the pair back in August following a falling out between the long-time friends. Ahead of his Wembley showdown with Dillian Whyte in April, Chisora predicted that Whyte would knock out Fury.Taking exception to the comments, Fury called out Chisora to a fight in order to settle the score. However, the clash failed to make its way over the line at the time with Chisora ‘pricing himself out’ of the deal, according to Fury