Dillian Whyte has promised to box Anthony Joshua ‘there and then’ after his rival threatened to ‘give him a punch’ at the Alexander Povetkin fight.
Whyte faces Povetkin on August 22, when his status as the mandatory challenger for the WBC heavyweight title held by Tyson Fury is at stake – and Joshua will be in attendance ringside.
Whyte and Joshua have long been fierce rivals, with bad blood existing since their days as amateur boxers, and the latter won their thrilling grudge match by knockout in 2015.
Joshua revived the animosity after telling Sky Sports: ‘I might get in there and give him a punch as well. You’re getting me psyched up now.’
But Whyte has warned Joshua against intervening, while at the ‘Fight Camp’ at Matchroom Boxing’s Brentwood base.
“He might get a box if he does that,” Whyte told Sky Sports’ Toe 2 Toe podcast.
“If he does that, he might get a box, there and then, one box. He thinks it’s a game, but I don’t play games with these guys. They think it’s a game, scream, and shout and get in each other’s faces, but if he does, he will get a box.’
Asked if Joshua wants him to lose, Whyte continued: ‘I don’t know and I don’t really care what he thinks or what he believes. I don’t know, it’s hard to say.
“He says one thing one day and the next day he says something else. There’s no consistency with AJ. There’s no consistency with him. He says this, then he says that. He just talks a lot of c**p. I’m sick and tired of all these guys that’s talking, talking, talking all the time.”
The WBC has confirmed the winner of Fury’s third fight against Deontay Wilder must make a mandatory defence against Whyte next.
