Tyson Fury has made feelings clear about Anthony Joshua's opponent

Tyson Fury has antecedently noted his admiration for Daniel Dubois, arsenic the 27-year-old risks his IBF heavyweight champion with the hard-hitting Anthony Joshua astatine Wembley Stadium this weekend

Tyson Fury has antecedently compared Daniel Dubois to Rocky IV quality Ivan Drago.

'DDD' is presently gearing up for a blockbuster showdown with Anthony Joshua astatine Wembley Stadium this weekend - risking his precocious obtained IBF heavyweight rubric against the 34-year-old large who is eyeing a trilogy combat with Oleksandr Usyk oregon a long-awaited scrap with Fury, depending connected the result of their December rematch.

However, Dubois of Frank Warren's Queensberry Promotions is simply a pugnacious task for immoderate combatant to get the amended of, holding an unthinkable 21-2 grounds with 20 vocation knockouts. Fury has antecedently sung his praises for Dubois, adjacent though the 2 could transverse paths successful the squared circle.

Speaking to BT Sport, the 'Gypsy King' said: " Daniel Dubois. He's a big, beardown lad and immoderate helium hits falls. He's similar Ivan Drago, isn't he? 'I volition deed you and interruption you, nary substance what happens'." Despite lone kicking disconnected his boxing vocation 7 years agone aft ditching Team GB and Olympic golden medal hopes, Dubois has paved his mode arsenic a well-established heavyweight.

He was riding a 15-fight winning streak earlier helium tasted decision for the archetypal clip successful a 2020 matchup with Joe Joyce for the British, Commonwealth, WBC Silver, WBO International, and the European heavyweight titles - failing to marque the number successful the tenth-round aft a pin-point jab to an astir swollen-shut near eye.

Despite the setback, Dubois rapidly resumed arsenic an unstoppable unit by making airy enactment of Bogdan Dinu, Joe Cusumano, Trevor Bryan and Kevin Lerena earlier facing an undefeated Usyk for the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, and IBO straps. He was yet bested by the Ukrainian successful the ninth-round - a nasty close manus dropping him and leaving him connected a genu for the count.

Usyk bushed Fury successful May to instrumentality his WBC rubric and go the latest antheral to go undisputed astatine heavyweight - but was stripped of his IBF loop the precise adjacent month for failing to instrumentality connected mandatory challenger Dubois, alternatively keeping existent to his connection to rematch Fury successful December.

Dubois bushed Filip Hrgovic for the interim rubric successful June, and was upgraded to IBF champion aft Usyk relinquished the accolade - and a triumph implicit Joshua this play puts him successful the representation for a bitter rematch with Usyk oregon a bequest combat with Fury for undisputed greatness of his ain babelike connected however their combat plays retired this winter.