Frank Warren laughs off Eddie Hearn’s Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury prediction with bizarre reference to Frankie Dettori and haemorrhoids

The decade long war of words between promoters Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn wages on and this time no punches have been pulled.

Immediately after Anthony Joshua was beaten by split decision in his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk earlier this month, attention quickly turned to an undisputed heavyweight world title fight between the Ukrainian and Tyson Fury.

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Joshua's promoter, Hearn, took the time to weigh in on the potential clash and he revealed that he is backing Usyk to emerge victorious.

“Tyson Fury doesn’t want to fight Oleksandr Usyk,” Hearn told the DAZN Boxing Show. “But he may have to because the money might be so big.

“It’s actually not a very good fight to watch, but it’s an intriguing fight to watch, because I think they’re going to negate each other a lot with movement.

“I don’t think Fury’s going to be chomping at the bit to fight Usyk.

“I think he could beat him, but I would favour Oleksandr Usyk in that fight.

“Just because I think he’s so good. Fury’s good as well, but Usyk is just… They’re both very, very intelligent boxers.”

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Warren took issue with this prediction from Hearn and did not mince his words in response in a column for .

“He said that Deontay Wilder would beat Tyson on three occasions. He said that we would not sell any tickets in America yet it broke the record for a heavyweight fight in Las Vegas,” Warren said.

“He said that Dillian Whyte would beat Tyson and we wouldn’t do any business for that fight yet it broke the Wembley box-office record and our man won by knockout. He said that Anthony Joshua would knock out Usyk twice.”

“He even said Canelo Alvarez would beat Dmitry Bivol. His boxing predictions are about as good as haemorrhoids would be for Frankie Dettori.”

“Whatever happens, after Joshua’s defeat last weekend, Hearn is now out of the heavyweight title picture.”

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Warren also went on to share his thoughts on Joshua's now infamous post-fight antics after losing to Usyk, as he was seen throwing two belts out of the ring, confronting bystanders backstage, taking the mic and going on a bizarre rant and crying at the press conference.

“‘AJ’ needs some time out to sort himself out physically and mentally," Warren said, "I’m not sure what the meltdown was about at the end of the fight but I think the reason he threw the belts out of the ring was because he genuinely thought he won.”

“That was probably down to the fact his corner was telling him he was winning the fight. What was that about?

"He went out of the ring, came back and then dug himself into a bigger hole than he was in before when he got on the microphone.”