Heavyweight champion, Anthony Joshua has backed Deontay Wilder to overcome Tyson Fury when they fight in Los Angeles.
The British fighter is confident that Wilder will have too much for his opponent, who is competing for only the third time since a two-and-a-half year absence from the sport.
Joshua identified Fury’s level of activity as key to defeating Wladimir Klitschko in April 2017, and believes it may prove decisive once again.
Fury goes into the Los Angeles fight as the bookmakers’ underdog, but the former WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight champion is being tipped to spring yet another upset, little more than three years after he stunned the world with victory over Wladimir Klitschko to dethrone the long-reigning Ukrainian.
But after either being stripped of his titles of relinquishing them, and battling drug addition, alcoholism and mental health problems, Fury has shed nearly 10 stone to return to the ring and take on reigning WBC champion Wilder across the Atlantic inside the Staples Centre.