Anthony Taylor believes that he will have few problems in his match against Tommy Fury.
The light-heavyweight pair are fighting this week on the Jake Paul vs. Tyron Woodley undercard, and there has been some speculation that Fury will then move onto a bout with Paul in the pair’s next fight.
First of all he will have to get past Taylor, who spoke to Betway Insider US to claim he was going to take an easy win.
"I’m about to bloody him up, he’s going to be in a dog fight,” he said.
“Tommy is not ready for me, Tommy is not ready to be taken into the trenches. He’s underestimating me, he’s looking over me. He thinks he is flying into Cleveland to win and then face off with Jake, but he ain’t even going to see Jake that night.
"I’m going to test his chin for the first time and I’m going to shock the world. He has nothing I haven’t seen before. He’s going in the second round by TKO. He’ll regret overlooking me. I’m working hard, I'm hungry. He’s not that skilled. I want what he has; the money, the status, everything. I have nothing to lose and everything to gain. If I lose then it’s just an MMA fighter losing to a boxer. But if I win this fight, I'm a megastar.
"He’s young, he’s 22-years-old, of course it’s going to affect him not having his dad there. Your comfort zone is your father. If you’re in trouble your father should be able to protect you. His father won’t be there, so he’ll be out of his comfort zone and I'm going to expose him. But whether his father is there or not I'm coming to take the fight to him."
As for a potential fight with Jake Paul, Taylor sees the YouTube celebrity as the obvious winner.
"A lot of people are expecting, if Jake wins this fight, they’d like to see a Tommy Fury v Jake Paul fight,” he began.
"That can be interesting too depending on how the Tyrone fight goes and my fight goes. Tommy Fury versus Jake Paul, that’s a good fight. When you compare Tommy’s fights to Jake’s fights, Tommy’s fights are embarrassing. Then look at the fights Jake fought, I’m pretty sure the guys that Jake beat, would beat the guys Tommy beat. I guarantee Ben Askren steamrolls Tommy Fury’s opponents. I kid you not. Jake absolutely beats Tommy Fury.
"Tommy is wild. I think Jake TKO’s Tommy in the third round. Tommy does not have the experience, without Tyson Fury he’s just a pretty Brit - a regular guy they are building up. I don’t think Tommy has the skills to beat Jake. Jake has better skillsets than Tommy. These guys probably started boxing at the same time, because Tommy wasn’t on the amateur circuit. He only really got into it after he met his girl Molly off Love Island. These two coming into boxing at the same time, you definitely got to look at who has had the tougher opponents. Tommy fought a guy with 10 wins and 126 losses - Jake would never fight a guy like that.
"That’s something to be discussed after the Tyrone fight. There’s so many guys that want to fight him like Chris Lehmman, Conor - all of these guys want a crack at him. The team will talk after the fight."