Anthony Joshua insists Wembley 'pressure' will inspire him against Daniel Dubois after tense weigh-in

The 34-year-old has been forced to rebuild his vocation implicit the past 2 years, aft a tally of 3 defeats successful 5 fights, but ascendant victories implicit Otto Wallin and Francis Ngannou person helped get him backmost to wrong touching region of the sport’s eventual prize.

Joshua has the accidental to go a three-time satellite champion arsenic helium challenges for Dubois’ IBF heavyweight satellite title, successful beforehand of a record-breaking assemblage of 96,000 successful London.

It volition beryllium Joshua’s 3rd clip headlining astatine Wembley Stadium, having beaten Wladimir Klitschko successful an epic brushwood successful 2017 and past stopped Alexander Povetkin a twelvemonth later, and helium is assured the large signifier volition effect successful different show-stopping performance.

“I emotion it, I thrive successful it,” Joshua said astatine Friday’s weigh-in.

“[The fans] enactment a batch of unit connected me, but that makes maine measurement my crippled up each azygous time. I’m coming up astir 12 years arsenic a professional, been warring strong, pushing hard, moving hard.”

On whether helium is astatine a signifier of his vocation wherever helium tin present bask these moments with a much reflective mindset, Joshua added: “I’m not a warrior successful the plot yet.

“I’m inactive connected the battlefield, I’m not smelling immoderate roses yet. Just blood, caller blood.”

Joshua was the steadfast assemblage favourite arsenic the fighter’s took to the scales astatine Trafalgar Square, and helium came successful conscionable nether 4 pounds heavier than Dubois.

Addressing the fans, Joshua said. “If I could inquire you 1 favour, spell location contiguous and marque a supplication for me.

“For occurrence tomorrow, that I volition go three-time heavyweight champion of the world.”

Dubois, arsenic has been the lawsuit passim the build-up to the bout, was much reserved successful answering questions and gave small distant arsenic helium prepares to marque a archetypal defence of his satellite title.

The 27-year-old was elevated to IBF satellite champion implicit the summertime aft Oleksandr Usyk vacated the loop successful bid to combat Tyson Fury for the remainder of the heavyweight titles successful December.

Dubois, who was beaten by Usyk past twelvemonth but has since earned awesome wins implicit Jarrell Miller and Filip Hrgovic, vowed to bushed Joshua “by immoderate means necessary” arsenic helium attempts to beryllium that helium belongs astatine boxing’s apical table.

“A lot’s gone into this,” Dubois said.

“A batch of work, a batch of training. I’m conscionable acceptable to spell now, the talking’s done.”