Tony Harrison didn't hold back when asked to give an assessment of Tim Tsyzu's skills and mentality inside the ring.
The pair meet in a light middleweight contest in Australia on Saturday night with the winner likely to earn a shot at the undisputed champion Jermell Charlo.
Ahead of the fight, Harrison was asked by FOX Sports Australia about Tsyzu's boxing skills and responded with the following negative assessment.
"His skills are totally beneath me. 100,000 totally beneath me, but does he have other attributes that are tougher than mine? Toughness and pace and stuff like that? Yeah, he can win fights like that," Harrison said.
“Will it be enough to win this fight? It won’t. It’s not. You’ve got to have everything. Once you get to the championship, you’ve got to have more than toughness and punching ability to punch as many times as you can punch. It comes with a little more.
"You’ve got to dig in your bag. He doesn’t have a bag to dig in because he never had to dig in one. This time, he’s got to dig in that bag and find that. He’s got to find that this time.”