Brandon Moore doesn’t think fellow heavyweight prospect DeAndre Savage is on his level. He aims to prove this in the main event Friday night at Fox Theater in Detroit, which will be streamed on DAZN.

Moore, 18-1 (10 KOs), enters the bout on a four-fight win streak, but more impressively has defeated unbeaten fighters Skylar Lacy and Stanley Wright in his previous bouts. Savage, 10-0 (10 KOs), who spoke to BoxingScene in the lead-up to the fight, predicted he’d stop the 31-year-old Moore. Moore believes he stops Savage in half that time.

Moore acknowledged he believes he is coming into this fight at 230lbs, 26 pounds less than his fight against Wright. He also heard an interview where Savage, 34, stated that he would come in at 280lbs. Moore adds that his only amateur memory of Savage was him getting “torched” by Jeremiah Milton at the 2020 Olympic Trials. Moore didn’t hold back on questioning Savage’s conditioning

“He is like all the other big guys,” Moore said. “Big and sloppy.”

When asked about the resume of Flint, Michigan’s Savage, Moore went on another tangent, saying that Savage has fought developmental opposition, with no distinguishable names.

“I didn’t want to go there, and wanted people to think I am fighting a credible guy; but he has no credible wins,” Moore said. “I don’t want to talk bad about him, because I am fighting him, but he is 10-0 and hasn’t fought anybody. You look at my record, and I have fought credible people.”

Moore points to his resume with recent wins over Wright and Lacy, as well as beating veteran journeymen such as Curtis Harper, Helaman Olguin, and Robert Simms, as an example of facing tougher opposition.

“Do I think Savage is on my level – no – so I need to go out here and handle my business,” Moore said. “Anytime he has had a tough fight, he hasn’t won the fight. It is a no-contest or something like that.”

Moore doubled down on the sentiment.

“I am a professional ass beater,” Moore said. “He is going to get knocked out in the second or third round.”