I don't play games, he might get a box - Whyte tells Joshua

Anthony Joshua has gotten on the nerves of Dillian Whyte after threatening to give him a punch.

“I might get in there and give him a punch as well,” Joshua told Sky Sports. “You’re getting me psyched up now.”

Whyte responded to Joshua saying he should think again about stepping between the ropes at the finale of ‘Fight Camp’ at Matchroom Boxing’s Brentwood base.

“He might get a box, if he does that,” Whyte told Sky Sports

“If he does that, he might get a box, there and then, one box.

“He thinks it’s a game, but I don’t play games with these guys. They think it’s a game, scream and shout and get in each other’s faces, but if he does, he will get a box.”

Asked if Joshua wants him to lose, Whyte said: “I don’t know and I don’t really care what he thinks or what he believes. I don’t know, it’s hard to say. He says one thing one day and the next day he says something else. There’s no consistency with AJ.

“There’s no consistency with him. He says this, then he says that. He just talks a lot of c**p. I’m sick and tired of all these guys that’s talking, talking, talking all the time.”

Whyte’s is a mandatory challenger for the WBC heavyweight title when he faces Povetkin on August 22, live on Sky Sports Box Office, and unified champion Joshua will be watching from ringside.

The British rivals went head-to-head in the aftermath of Whyte’s explosive rematch win over Derek Chisora in December 2018, and Joshua is stoking their bitter feud.

The WBC has confirmed the winner of Tyson Fury’s third fight against Deontay Wilder must make a mandatory defence against Whyte.