WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has fired off a few verbal bombs in the direction of Tony Bellew - over some recent comments regarding Anthony Joshua.

Fury was attempting to face WBO, IBF, IBO, WBA champion Oleksandr Uysk in December - but the Ukrainian boxer is still healing up from last month's decision win over Joshua and doesn't plan to fight again until 2023.

Once Usyk was out of the picture for this year, Fury turned his attention to Joshua.

Earlier this week, Fury offered Joshua a 60-40 monetary split to have a year-end showdown in the UK.

Joshua and his handlers are fine with the split.

However, Bellew believes Joshua should receive at least a 50-50 split - due to his drawing power.

"Bellew is a fanboy for AJ, isn’t he? He’s on AJ’s hoo-ha. I’m not even going to say it on the radio where he’s sitting, he’s quite high up on AJ’s hoo-ha. So, let’s say why is the best fighter in the world – which he knows is me – calling out AJ?," Fury told Talk Sport.

“I’ll tell you why, Bellew, it’s because the other guy little guy who just beat your bodybuilding mate, Usyk, doesn’t want no smoke with the Gypsy King. He’s come out and said that publicly, ‘I do not want to fight Tyson until next year’.

“Bellew’s saying, ‘Oh, people like Anthony Joshua sell out tickets’. Who does he think he’s talking to? I’ve got the highest attending crowd in the history of the UK – 94,000, on my own! However, AJ and his mate, Eddie Hearn, are both happy with the 40 percent.”

Joshua is coming off back to back defeats at the hands of Usyk - and three defeats in his last five fights.

While Fury is not overlooking the abilities of Joshua, he expects to take down his domestic rival in the first half of the contest.

“To be honest with you, the two big, giant heavyweights in the ring, anything can happen at any given moment when you’ve got two men as big as we are swinging at each other,” Fury said.

“However, I’ve always said what happens when I fight Joshua, he gets cleaned out. I say within six, seven rounds – if he lasts that long.”