Fury: I'm a lineal champion, Joshua and Wilder have to meet me

Tyson Fury continues to consider himself the "lineal" champion and claims that current title holders need to meet him if they want to be considered full-fledged champions.

"I have lineal status. My lineal status dates back to the days of John L. Sullivan. All of the hundreds of years of boxing and I've got that belt. These guys can have some alphabet titles, but they will never be considered the best of their era until they beat me, because I'm the man who beat the man, who beat the man, who beat the man - going back 200 years," Fury told BoxingScene.com.

"I'm going to be licensed again very, very soon. That is not going to be a problem. I'm going to be back with a capital B. I'm one of the UK's homegrown sons, why would they not want to give me a license," Fury said.

According to the British media, Tyson Fury resumed training, hired himself a new coach, sheds excess weight and is preparing to return to the ring in April or May next year.