Tyson Fury’s opinion of Anthony Joshua has reached a new low.

The WBC heavyweight titlist from Manchester, England, was trying to make a fight with London’s Joshua for Dec. 3 but talks fizzled earlier this month. It now appears that Fury may be heading for a third fight with Derek Chisora instead.

In a recent interview, Fury lambasted his countryman, saying that Joshua was never going to be involved in a show in which he is not the clear-cut A-side. Purse splits for their fight favored Fury 60-40, which Joshua agreed to, but there were several other major issues that had not been resolved. Fury is backed by Frank Warren’s Queensberry in the UK and Bob Arum’s Top Rank in the US, while Joshua has an exclusive deal with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom and DAZN, and a key component of making the deal was deciding which broadcaster was going to gain rights to the fight.

Fury thinks Joshua cannot handle the idea of being second fiddle, and, by way of example, brought up the time then heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder had reportedly offered Joshua a $50 million fight to take place stateside. That fight never materialized.

“We all know Joshua wouldn’t fight Wilder for $50 million back in the day,” Fury told SecondsOut. “We all knew that. My lawyer has seen the money, the $50 million from [Wilder’s advisor] Al Haymon. That was real. Yeah. And he sh!t himself yet again. He has never fought somebody who is going to beat him.

“I’ll tell you what else they can’t do, these control freaks. They can’t go on someone else’s show because their ego is too big. This was not Joshua versus Fury, because Fury does not have three losses. This was Fury-Joshua, and it was all my show. So for them to turn up with their … ego and play ball and be the opponent, they’re not going to do it. They wouldn’t do it for the $50 million against Wilder to go to America and fight Wilder as a Wilder versus Joshua show.”

Fury went so far as to say that he has far more respect for former rival Wilder than he does for Joshua. Fury and Wilder are not exactly on friendly terms. Their compelling trilogy—the two fought to a draw in the first fight, while Fury won the last two by knockout—offered high-stakes drama to boxing fans, but it also ended in acrimonious fashion. Wilder accused Fury of cheating in the second fight, a view he still holds to this day, despite ample evidence to the contrary.

Nevertheless, Fury holds Wilder in high esteem because he never shied away from a fight. In fact, Wilder famously took Fury to court to enforce their third contractually mandated match. At the time, Fury was in serious talks to fight Joshua, but Wilder’s arbitration prevented that fight from happening.  

“So me and Deontay proved, even though we don’t like each other and we have no love lost, and he’s accused me of a million things, bullsh!t things—the one thing  I can say about Deontay is the man’s got balls,” Fury said. “And not only did he not sign for a 60-40 [split] in the third fight, he took me to f-------g court to get that fight. He didn’t run away. He paid millions of dollars—well, I did, I lost (in court), so I had to pay his car fee—so I had to pay millions of dollars for him so this little motherf----- could fight me.

“And then you’ve got this other big sausage (Joshua) here, he’s got a contract on his table, willing to fight him, and he didn’t sign it. But Wilder has gone to court, arbitration, lawsuits, in American court, to make me fight. Now you tell me about men. One man’s potentially risking losing millions of dollars to make the fight and one man’s running from millions of dollars. Different, different men. Different men completely.”