Boxing great Lennox Lewis has backed Tyson Fury to cause Anthony Joshua serious problems when the two heavyweight world champions meet in the ring in 2021.
Briton Fury and Nigerian-born Briton Joshua have supposedly signed deals to fight next year to unify their world titles.
Lewis, a former world champion, believes Fury is more likely to win.
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“The Fury and Joshua fight, you have got two big guys and they can punch and they can box,” Lewis, 55, said in an interview with the Gary Newbon Sports Show with Utilita on Punching.TV.
“You’ve got Fury, he is a switch hitter and he is going into the fight with a lot more dangerous things to watch out for – the fact that he can punch with left hand, with his right.
“He is a slugger as well, the way he went after Deontay (Wilder), nobody expected that. He said what he is going to do and he did it. I like guys who box with confidence like that.”
Lewis also sees Fury’s height as an advantage over Joshua.
“I have always said that it is always difficult boxing taller guys,” Lewis explained. “He is 6ft 9, you are not going to get any sparring partners who are 6ft 9 to go in there.
“AJ has to figure that out as well. It is going to take him a few rounds.”
Before the proposed fight with Fury, Joshua will defend his IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles against Kubrat Pulev on 12 December in London.
Fury has said that he will not fight again until next year.
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