I’M here in London working for Swedish TV on the fight.
And I think I have a lot to add, because I fought Fury and I was going to face Whyte, until he pulled out with a shoulder injury last October.
I know them both pretty well. Before Fury’s fights, he’s kind of unpredictable, you don’t ever know what you will get with him.
When I fought him, I was very focused on myself and I wasn’t getting into any real exchanges with him.
I think he felt like he couldn’t really get into my head too much because I was so focused and pretty much didn’t acknowledge him.
As a fighter, he’s smart. I rate him as the No 1 in the division right now.
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He’s a tall guy, pretty heavy and he knows how to use his size well.
For someone that big, he also moves pretty well and that is somewhat impressive, to be honest.
He also adapts well. A good example was when he got cut in our fight — which later needed 47 stitches — he suddenly changed his game-plan around and was more aggressive.
Now, he says he’s 6ft 9n, I’m not really sure about that, to be honest. Maybe 6ft 8in or something.
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I think I told him that when we fought!
Apart from that, it’s also hard to find sparring partners like him, he is so big, so awkward.
So what we did, we had a lot of different guys for sparring, so I was prepared for any style.
In the fight, I came in with zero respect for him in the ring.
They didn’t expect much from me — and neither did anyone else.
But I really didn’t care about that. I knew what I wanted to do and I put it all on the line. I’m a smart fighter, a southpaw and I’m tricky.
I’m pretty fast with my hands and my feet, I’ve got a good team around me — and we had a pretty good game- plan for that fight.
For Whyte, he has to be aggressive, because he can’t win a boxing match against Fury, that’s for sure.
He has got to come forward, cut off the ring and corner Fury if he is trying to box around him.
I would say Whyte has to really target the body to slow Fury down, he has a big target there.He also has to try to impose himself.
And when he gets close, make sure Fury doesn’t tie you up and beat on you, that will tire him out fast.
For Fury, the best thing he can do is box him coming forward.
If he can push Whyte back but still box him and keep his distance, that would be great as it can take away his weapons.
But we don’t know how Fury is going to come out now.
He was very aggressive with Wilder, however Wilder is different to Whyte.
Whyte is a heavier guy than Wilder and has better skills I feel, better defence, and he is still a big puncher.
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I would expect Fury to come out and box more, I don’t expect him to try and just run Whyte over like he did with Wilder.
It is going to be interesting, we just don’t know what is going to happen.
