RUIZ HAS YOUR NUMBER NOW, WARREN WARNS AJ

TYSON FURY’S manager Frank Warren has questioned rival Anthony Joshua’s ability to regain his place among the world’s leading heavyweight boxers. Warren urged the Londoner not to take a rematch with Andy Ruiz Jnr, who defeated him in New York this month as a late replacement following Jarrell Miller’s failed drug test. ‘I do have my doubts,’ Warren told BBC 5 Live. ‘I don’t think he should take the rematch. Maybe he should take some time out and regroup, I don’t know. That’s his decision. But he’ll be fighting a guy who will have more than five weeks’ notice and go into a proper training camp. ‘I’m not going to make any predictions about the shape of his body, but he’s got fast hands and I believe he’s got Joshua’s number. He’s taken Joshua’s best shot and knows he has the punching power to do damage to Anthony Joshua.’ Warren said he did not know Fury’s next opponent but that it would be someone ‘in the top five’, and expects the Brit to fight Deontay Wilder early next year. Fury said after Saturday’s second-round stoppage of Tom Schwarz in Las Vegas that dates of September 21 or October 5 had been agreed for his next bout. ‘We’ll see who’s available and work on that over the next week — we’ll make it happen,’ Warren said. ‘I genuinely do not have a name at the moment. ‘It’s highly probable that (Fury v Wilder) fight will happen early next year. I can’t go into the details. I don’t think the problem is money, all parties want to make

this fight happen.’