DILLIAN WHYTE believes he will knock out Tyson Fury – and has revealed exactly how he plans to do it.
Whyte, 32, was devastated after Fury, 31, replaced him as the WBC mandatory challenger to face Deontay Wilder, 34, last February.
Dillian Whyte has vowed to knock out Tyson FuryCredit: Getty Images
Whyte says Deontay Wilder failed to attack Fury’s body
Wilder was dominated over seven rounds, twice being floored, as he surrendered his world title 14 months after the pair fought to a draw.
Whyte reckons the Bronze Bomber, who also floored Fury on two occasions in the first fight, was exposed for not being able to body punch.
Fury has been warned to expect “relentless” attacks to his torso by ‘The Body Snatcher’ with the pair in line to face next year.
Whyte told Sky Sports: “He knows Deontay Wilder doesn’t hit as hard as what everyone makes out, and Deontay Wilder can’t body punch.
“Had Wilder been hitting him in the body, earlier in the fight, he wouldn’t have been able to get up from that punch in the later rounds, but his body was fresh, his legs were fresh.
“There was no body punching going on, Wilder can only head hunt.
“You can shake the head punches off sometimes, but when your body is broken down, and you’ve been hit up and down – that’s how you’ve got to fight Fury, you have to fight up and down. You can’t just head hunt.
“He’s a tough guy, he gets up, but I’m going to be targeting head and body, relentless all night long, so it will be a different story.”
Whyte finally earned his shot at the WBC belt in July after beating Oscar Rivas, but after an ‘adverse finding’ emerged in his pre-fight drug test his status was revoked.
Fury would instead rematch Wilder, despite Whyte being cleared of any doping charges by United Kingdom Anti Doping in December.
The frustrated contender has now been promised a title fight by February 2021, despite Anthony Joshua verbally agreeing a double header with the Gypsy King for next year.
To muscle his way past AJ, Whyte has feuded with Fury on Twitter, claiming to have left the WBC king “pathetically sobbing on the canvas” during sparring.
The former kickboxer – who faces Alexander Povetkin in August – doubled down on the gym wars claim.
Whyte added: “He’s got all these skills and all this other stuff, but I’m an animal and I’ll come to fight, simple as that.
“He has been in the ring with someone like me, because I sparred him many times.
“I was very inexperienced at the time, and I still gave him work. A lot of work.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
