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Tyson Fury admits Dillian Whyte can knock him out: 'Someone's getting chinned'

Alexander Netherton
Tyson Fury admits Dillian Whyte can knock him out: 'Someone's getting chinned'GettyImages
The WBC champion is preparing for his title clash in April.

Tyson Fury is preparing to come in at his ‘heaviest’ ever as he looks for a knockout against Dillian Whyte next month.

Fury will defend his WBC heavyweight belt for the second time in his career at Wembley on April 23, six months after he beat Deontay Wilder in their trilogy rematch back in October.

In that fight against Wilder he tipped the scales at 273lbs, the heaviest he has been for any fight in his career, and the 33-year-old is looking to exceed that to generate more power against his mandatory challenger.

"I'm going to try and come in the heaviest I've ever been," Fury said to Sky Sports. "Biggest fight - so I'm going to be the heaviest, strongest, fittest, more aggressive than I've ever been.

"I'm looking for the knockout. No secret, there's no point in me lying about game-plans. What I'm going to do is I'm going to come straight to the centre of the ring, back him up and land big heavy punches on him until he's knocked out."

Despite his usual confident display, Fury acknowledged that the fight is not without risk.

"I think someone's getting knocked out," Fury explained. "Whether it's going to be me on the front foot or him on the back foot, someone's getting chinned.

"Every heavyweight poses a threat because they're all big men, they can all knock another man out. It's something that I'm looking forward to, the challenge, if he can knock me out, good luck to him. If not, onto the next one.

"I don't specifically do training camps anymore because I train every day, twice a day, five days a week, once on a Saturday, whether I'm training for a fight or not.

"So I'm always ready for a fight, I'm ready to go now. I'm an ever-ready fighter. So they can never catch me off because I'm always in camp, always.

"I'll train a little bit with one hand behind my back, because that's how I'm going to approach the fight. I'll be defending with one arm, just to put on a show, show them how good I really am. In this fight you'll see me with one hand behind my back, that's a promise."

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