Anthony Joshua admits he won’t be gunning for a knockout when he faces Tyson Fury later this year.
Joshua and Fury have both signed their contracts to finally face each other in a heavyweight blockbuster likely to be in November.
‘AJ’ will first face unknown Albanian, Kristian Prenga on July 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, while Fury is expected to fight again on August 1.
Joshua, who has an almost 90% knockout ratio, insists he’ll look to box his rival rather than looking for a stoppage win.
“I don’t know [if I’ll knock out Tyson Fury],” the 36-year-old told reporters including Pro Boxing Fans on Monday.
“I want to box him.
“Even Prenga, I know I can punch hard, but you’ve got to break them down.”
The two-time heavyweight world champion was ringside for Fury’s victory over Arslanbek Makhmudov in April, his first since coming out of retirement.
‘The Gypsy King’ called out his rival, who refused to enter the ring and face off with him.
Weeks later the bout was signed with Joshua then announcing his first fight since knocking out Jake Paul in December against Prenga.
10 days after stopping Paul, ‘AJ’ escaped with minor injuries from a car crash which took the lives of two of his close friends, Latif Ayodele and Sina Ghami in Nigeria.
On Monday, Joshua urged Fury to face rising heavyweight star, Moses Itauma in his warm-up fight.
“Is he fighting Itauma?” the 36-year-old told talkSPORT Boxing.
“Because he was saying to me when I was looking for an opponent for this date [July 25], he was like ‘fight [Fabio] Wardley, fight Itauma, these fights are easy to be made, if you’re looking for a comeback fight.’
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“So I think that [Itauma] would be a perfect name, because they’re all under the same promotion right?
“So if Fury is what he says he is, maybe he should step forward and Frank [Warren] should put his fighter forward instead of worrying about what I’m up to.”
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