Tony Bellew believes Joe Joyce would be a tough challenge for any other fighter in the heavyweight division.
One potential opponent could be Anthony Joshua, who might need a fight to stay sharp if he is unable to arrange his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk in the coming months.
Usyk beat Joshua back in September last year, and the former IBF, WBA and WBO champion swiftly exercised his rematch clause, with promoter Eddie Hearn expecting a clash in May and June.
However, the Ukrainian has since returned from his homeland in order to defend his country from the invasion by the Russian army, and men of fighting age are currently not permitted to leave the country.
With Tyson Fury in action against Dillian Whyte on April 23rd, Deontay Wilder has been put forward in some circles as an alternative, and speaking to talkSPORT, Bellew suggested Joyce as a potential opponent.
He suggested: “He is a problem for anyone in the world.
“Purely based on the fact that he’s gonna be there at the final bell and he’s gonna make you work.
“But do you know what? It doesn’t even need to get to the final bell.
“And don’t get me wrong, Anthony Joshua is probably the best conditioned heavyweight of the last 20 years, but this Joe Joyce is a different kind of animal.
“He doesn’t even need to do much work, he’s just walking you down.
“It must be so much of a lift and confidence booster for a fighter going into a fight thinking, ‘These guys just can’t hurt me.’
“It’s not like these are featherweights hitting him, these are 17 stone, 18 stone, 19 stone men hitting him with everything they’ve got.
“He’s the modern-day Terminator, the human Terminator, he doesn’t stop.”