LONDON, England -- Anthony Joshua's next fight is likely to be against mandatory challenger Joseph Parker, rather than a world title unification bout with Tyson Fury.
"I'm in a good position," said Joshua, who improved his knockout run to 17 from 17 fights with a seventh round win over American Dominic Breazeale in a first defence of his IBF world heavyweight title at London's O2 Arena on Saturday.
"[Deontay] Wilder, Fury, David Haye, I'd fight any one of them, and they all want me. I was really looking at Tyson Fury. I hope he gets better soon, as I was hoping to get that sometime in the winter if everything went well.
"We're going to have to reschedule that and look at other opponents like Parker if he's vacant or anybody else that the people want."
A fight against Fury will not happen until next year at the earliest after the WBA-WBO heavyweight champion last week pulled out of his rematch against Wladimir Klitschko on July 9 with a sprained ankle.
Joshua, 26, has registered three KO wins, won a world title and defended it since Fury out-pointed Klitschko and the 2012 Olympic gold medallist is excited about his future, with or without Fury.
Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn (19-0, 16 KOs) believes a fight against Parker will happen in November at the earliest and admits a bout with Fury is now looking unlikely.
"The Parker fight's going to happen in either November, December, or March, April," said Hearn. "Klitschko is a fight we'd love as well, but I'm always reluctant to make a fight of that magnitude in November.
"I've seen Deontay Wilder calling out AJ's name. That's a fight we'd like to build towards, a dual Pay-Per-View on Showtime in the US, and Sky here. We probably need a couple of more fights, maybe even a fight in America in early 2017.
"Our conversations with [Tyson Fury's trainer and uncle] Peter Fury were to look at the Fury fight for November, December, or spring, summer next year, but you never know with Tyson Fury how long someone's going to be in the game, because he's a little bit out there. The [ankle] injury has kind of made the decision for us."