Tyson Fury was unhappy with being labelled a coward by Francis Ngannou.
The heavyweights were all in the same room and Fury’s cousin, Andy Lee revealed that ‘The Gypsy King’ had ‘put it on’ the MMA star.
Interestingly also in the room was Eddie Hearn along with Anthony Joshua and the Matchroom promoter has explained what went down between the rivals.
Speaking to the Mail he said: ‘I feel like I didn’t know if what happened in the room stayed in a room, but there’s already been some reports about Fury letting his feelings be known to Ngannou, which is true. He did stick it on him.
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‘And it was a little bit scary for a while, a lot of big men in that room last night.’
Earlier Andy Lee had given his take on the encounter.
Lee told iFL TV: “It is a bizarre thing. Anthony Joshua’s on one side, Tyson’s here.
“Then Ngannou came in and Tyson pulled him up straight away.
“He said, ‘Hey you, you’ve been talking about me in interviews, saying I’m a coward, calling me a yellow belly.’
“But Ngannou in fairness was quite cool and calm and went, ‘No I didn’t say that.’
“Tyson went, ‘You did. I beat you, I beat you.’
“Ngannou said, ‘No, no, no. I didn’t say that.’
“Tyson said, ‘What does your record say?’
“Then Tyson said, ‘You take care of your man, I’ll take care of mine and I’ll give it to you again.’
“He put it on him for a bit, it was interesting.”
Should both fighters win their next bouts against Anthony Joshua and Oleksandr Usyk respectively then we could see Fury take on Ngannou once more.
The pair even traded insults at yesterday’s press conference.
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