It began politely enough. "Hello everyone," said Big Joe Egan in a video message last month. "I have one last hurrah in me," the former boxer who Mike Tyson once dubbed the 'toughest white man on the planet', went on. "I haven't fought in over 20 years.
John Fury is my friend and he is a good fighting man, same as myself, a good fighting man and I think the two of us would have a great boxing match. Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link "Out in Saudi let's show them YouTubers and them Saudi royals how two old warriors can perform." Challenge issued, Egan, 58, sat back and waited for Fury, 59, to respond.
But initially the one time bareknuckle boxer and father of heavyweight champ Tyson Fury was silent. Perhaps he had enough on his plate.
Fury was already embroiled in a war of words with former super-middleweight champion Carl Froch and had previously called out heavyweight legend Iron Mike.
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