He's been looking for a cop out for a while, the more pressure that's been put on for this fight to happen.
In the last 10 days he's been saying he needs two more fights this year, before joshua.
He'll find a way not to fight joshua this year, and I still say he won't fight him ever. He just doesn't, and never really has, wanted a joshua fight, regardless of the shite he talks, or what he's 'supposedly' just signed.