Former unified light-welterweight world champion, Amir Khan has advised the undisputed boxing heavyweight champion of the world, Anthony Joshua to go for an early knockout if he intends to defeat Tyson Fury in their potential unification encounter tagged ‘Battle of Britain’.
Discussion is ongoing on the much anticipated double headed clash slated for next year but Joshua will have to defend his world title against Kubrat Pulev and Fury has to make a defense against Deontay Wilder in a trilogy fight before the fight.
Khan, who is an Olympic silver medalist, said Joshua will have to end things early, because the longer the fight plays out the less of a chance he has to win.
“Fury-Joshua, what a fight that’ll be. It’ll be good for boxing. I think it will, yeah, because they both want to prove who the best is in the UK. It’s a UK fight, and it’ll be massive. I think it will because they both want to prove a point, and they want to show who number one is.
“They don’t just want to win. Joshua and Fury intend to succeed properly to say, and they don’t want to win and have a close fight. The two of them want to make sure that they won easily.
“I think when it comes to technique and being technical, and then you have Fury by a mile. I think AJ has to go in there and go for the kill. He [Joshua] might be stronger, and he might be the harder hitter, but he has to go in there hoping he’ll win the fight,” he said.
The anticipated mega clash estimated to worth £150million will happen next year either in Saudi Arabia or Las Vegas in the United State.
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