Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) believes his style is all wrong for current IBF, WBA, IBO champion Anthony Joshua (20-0, 20 KOs).

Fury is back in training, hoping to return to the ring in the first quarter of 2018. He's been out of action since traveling to Germany and shocking Wladimir Klitschko for the WBO, IBO, WBA, IBF world titles in November 2015.

Joshua, who returned last month with a TKO victory over Carlos Takam in Cardiff, is likely coming back in the first quarter of 2018.

Fury, who more or less was stripped of all of his titles and his boxing license, has hearing next month with UK Anti-Doping to settle his issue of claim that he tested positive for a banned substance in early 2015.

If Fury is able to win the hearing, he would then go on to reclaim his license to box.

He believes that Joshua's lack of footwork and upper body movement are two factors that would see him lose if they ever collided in the ring.

“He [Anthony Joshua] doesn’t have great footwork or upper body movement, and he doesn’t move too good on angles. To meet a fighter like myself who does have good footwork, does have good lateral movement, and can move on angles, that equals disaster. With me being knowledgeable about boxing and heavyweight boxing – I study it and I have done for many, many years – I understand how I have to beat these guys," Fury said to Talk Sport.

“To beat someone with those attributes it would be hard but someone of my ability can move, box, and twist, and all I would have to do is make him miss a bit. As we saw against Wladimir [Klitschko], he blew a gasket trying to land his punches.

“You just have to go back to [Muhammad] Ali and [George] Foreman – the big puncher against the big mover. I think boxing, especially heavyweight, is a chess match. More of a brains match rather than who is the strongest or quickest.”