Former boxing star Steve Cunningham has predicted Tyson Fury could get qualified when he fights Oleksandr Usyk in May.
The two men had originally been due to fight in December, only for their bout to be pushed back to February following Fury's narrow win over Francis Ngannou.
With the Briton sustaining a serious eye injury, however, their fight has now been pushed back again to May.
Fury has slimmed down for the bout as the 35-year-old looks to win the heavyweight clash.
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But Cunningham, who previously dropped Fury back in 2013, has predicted that the Gypsy King could be 'disqualified' for 'leaning' on Usyk during the fight.
“I think Joshua vs Fury is a fight that needs to happen," he told World Boxing News.
"Who wins? I don’t know how it goes if both men are at their peak conditioning as they have champion mindsets. They will present different dangers to each other.
“I think Usyk wins by decision against Fury, though. Either that or Fury gets disqualified.
“Fury’s going to have to lean and lay all over Usyk to tire him down – as he does usually.
“But I think the referee will be alerted to this before the fight [by team Usyk], and Fury will lose points.”
Last time out, against Ngannou, Fury was poor.
And the Briton received more criticism after Anthony Joshua swept Ngannou aside last month.
Cunningham claims he 'wasn't surprised' to see Joshua beat his opponent with such ease.
He continued: “I was not surprised at all to see what Anthony Joshua did to Francis Ngannou.
“I mean, Ngannou is an amateur boxer at best.
“Against Joshua, he fell for feints, and his defence was lame. He didn’t see the set-up that Joshua laid.
"I thought the KO would come later due to the power of Ngannou and Joshua taking his time, but no, he went right to work.
“I believe Ngannou only looked as good as he did fighting Fury because Fury didn’t take fighting an MMA guy seriously.
"Ngannou does have unbelievable power, though. He landed a clean shot on Fury, who wasn’t in shape at all.
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"I was surprised at that but not at the fact that Fury got up and outpointed him.”
Meanwhile, Moses Itauma recently opened up on Fury after sparring with the 35-year-old.
And he claimed the boxing icon was 'very Marmite' as they prepared for the Briton's bout with Usyk.
"Obviously I was in Tyson's camp," the teenager told talkSPORT.
"He was very Marmite in sparring - some days he'd do good but in some he'd been unbelievable.
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"Obviously I was in Tyson's camp," the teenager told talkSPORT.
"He was very Marmite in sparring - some days he'd do good but in some he'd been unbelievable.
"As I say he's very Marmite, he could have a bad day in sparring and I feel like the Francis Ngannou fight was a very bad day."
