The former heavyweight world champion eased to victory against the YouTuber-turned-boxer in last month's bout in Miami and Fury believes that his old rival did everything he could to avoid engaging in combat with Joshua.

The former Love Island star – who beat Paul by split decision when the pair fought in 2023 – told iFL TV: "Listen, it's all money isn't it?

"Money and s*** and whatever like that. It's like me fighting (Oleksandr) Usyk or something like that, it's just b******* isn't it? You know, that's all it was. It's just grabbing people's attention, it sells and that's it.

"As a boxing term, you can't really look into it all because one man just literally looked like he was on an athletics track running round and round and round, and AJ well he didn't even really break a sweat did he? So just a load of s*** to be honest."

Fury, the younger brother of former heavyweight world champion Tyson, has been out of the ring since beating unheralded Bosnian Kenan Hanjalic last May but has teased that he is set to announce a "big fight".

He explained: "I've had some interesting calls to start the year off. I think we're going to start the year off in a very big way.

"Hopefully the next fight announcement, everybody's going to be excited about it.

"All I'm going to say is it's going to be a very big, big, big fight. That's all I'm going to say."

Fury added that he won't be "begging" Paul for a fight after winning their grudge match three years ago.

The British boxer said: "I've always said, I'm not begging him for a fight, I don't need to beg for a fight. I'm the one who holds a win over him.

"I beat him easily with one hand last time and if he wants to fight he knows where I'm at. I've always said that.

"I'm not very hard to get in contact with. I'm here, I'm in shape all year round, I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do in my career.

"I'm moving on with my career and if he wants to fight, I'm here. He knows that."