Intro:

Tyson Fury announced on Wednesday (17th December) that he will fight in February to prepare for his WBO world heavyweight bout in the summer of next year. Fury, who is the mandatory challenger to the world WBO title, also admitted that he does not expect to face current champion Wladimir Klitschko and thinks the the Ukrainian heavyweight will duck out of his challenge.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Tyson Fury, European, British and WBO International champion (asked if he thinks the Klitschko fight will happen):

"I'm a million per cent convinced this fight isn't going to happen. Despite what we've just heard I don't think Wladimir (Klitschko) will fight me. If he does, it's a miracle and if he does, I'm right once again."

Question: "How frustrating is that for you?"

Fury: "It's not frustrating because I already know it's going to happen. It would be frustrating if I was building up for a big training camp, spending a fortune and then it happened. That'd be frustrating but because I know it's not going to happen from the beginning it's not a frustrating thing and I'm not setting my mind on it."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Frank Warren, boxing promoter:

"I've got to tell you something, it's going to be quite embarrassing if he decides he doesn't want to fight, he'll have to vacate the title. And I think that would not put him in a good place with boxing fans. We all want to see the best fighting the best and at the moment without doubt Tyson is the best challenger out there. He's undefeated, he had quite an impressive performance out there last time out and if Wladimir ducks him and fights another hand picked opponent I think he'll go way down in boxing fans' estimations."

SOUNDBITE: (English) Tyson Fury, European, British and WBO International Champion (on his confidence if he does fight Klitschko):

"A billion per cent, infinity per cent. As much as you can ever dream of, I'm confident of winning. I said I would play with Dereck Chisora, I said it would be the easiest fight I would ever have, and it was. Everything I say seems to come true. I don't know why but it just does. I've said it's not going to happen, you better believe that. If it does happen then he's going to get knocked out if round about the seventh, eighth round after being involved in a bit of a brawl. If he's made to fight, Wladimir, he's old, he gets tired fast and I'll knock him out for sure."