Tyson Fury gave Anthony Joshua opponent crude five-word advice before Wembley fight

Matt Legg has recalled the shocking portion of proposal that helium received from erstwhile satellite champion Tyson Fury up of his ain bout with Anthony Joshua backmost successful 2014 - and it's capable to marque anyone wince

Tyson Fury erstwhile told an hostile of Anthony Joshua to footwear the hard-hitter successful the balls.

Matt Legg took connected AJ backmost successful 2014 connected the undercard of Carl Froch vs George Groves II astatine Wembley, the last combat of the veteran's career. In the months starring up to the fight, Legg shared a fig of sparring rounds with Fury aft accepting a situation from the "Gypsy King" who was struggling to find partners astatine the time.

Legg, in-turn wanted to beryllium himself by enduring high-level sparring with Fury connected his family's caravan site. He besides returned for different league with Fury and his relative Hughie, winning the respect of the household and adjacent being offered immoderate hilarious proposal for his combat with Joshua.

Speaking to Daily Star Sport, Legg recalled: "I really got a connection from Tyson earlier the AJ combat and helium said, ‘give it everything you’ve got for 1 round'. Headbutt him, wound him, footwear him successful the balls! You cognize what Tyson’s like, helium says comic worldly similar that."

Legg admitted that the proposal made him chuckle, though helium decided not to spell up with Fury's proposal of sticking a Glasgow Kiss connected his hostile oregon kicking him successful the crown jewels. He went on: "I got that connection the nighttime earlier and it made maine laugh. My program was to springiness it everything for 2 rounds anyhow truthful they weren’t acold off, but without the soiled tactics."

The seasoned besides admitted that AJ didn't number him retired successful their combat astatine Wembley, claiming that the hard-hitter had a immense magnitude of respect for Legg going into the bout. He added: " Anthony is from Watford and I utilized to container determination arsenic an amateur.

"Anthony utilized to travel successful the gym arsenic a small kid seemingly and I ne'er realised. And helium said to a person of mine, Ricky English, who utilized to bid him, that helium watched maine and wanted to combat similar me. So I asked Anthony astir it astatine the property league astatine Wembley. He said, ‘Yeah, I ever followed you erstwhile I was young’.

"He adjacent remembered definite fights. I didn’t adjacent deliberation helium was alert of maine truthful for him to accidental helium had ever supported maine was rather a arrogant moment." All respect aside, Legg was yet finished by Joshua successful the 2nd circular of their scrap - and it was chaos from the archetypal second.

Legg came retired swinging large and looking for a knockout, but AJ ended up knocking him retired with an eye-socket shattering close uppercut, adding a hard near hook for bully measure. Legg was incapable to marque it backmost to his feet for the referee's count, AJ making his grounds a respectable 6-0 astatine the time.

Fast guardant to 2024, and Joshua is acceptable to instrumentality connected Daniel Dubois astatine the aforesaid stadium this evening - with the IBF heavyweight loop connected the line. With a grounds of 28-3, Joshua looks to instrumentality connected the victor of Fury and Oleksandr Usyk's December rematch for undisputed greatness.

Dubois is nary gag however, with a grounds of 21-2 successful his ain close with 20 vocation knockouts to date. He volition besides look for an undisputed changeable adjacent twelvemonth should helium reign ultimate implicit AJ and get his biggest triumph to date.