Joe Joyce is convinced Tyson Fury will beat Anthony Joshua in their £200m heavyweight showdown.
Joyce has had experience of sparring against both athletes and believes Fury holds the upper hand as AJ is too ‘wary of getting hit’.
It is likely that Joyce will face the winner of the Fury-AJ showdown, following his own fight against Oleksandr Usyk.
Joyce knows Joshua from their days on the GB boxing squad and feels the unified champion is ‘too negative in his style’.
Joyce credited AJ for ‘picking himself up’ after suffering a stunning seventh-round knockout defeat at the hands of Andy Ruiz Jr. However, he claims the 31-year-old is now too worried about getting hit.
When asked who he backed to win the Fury-AJ fight, Joyce he is going with Fury because of his performances and the way he’s come back from his lowest point to beat Deontay Wilder for the WBC.
