Frank Warren previews the three biggest British heavyweight fights coming up

Frank Warren backs Itauma, Dubois and Fury "to do the business"

Hall of Fame promoter Frank Warren sat down with Betway and Playbook to discuss the biggest British heavyweight fights coming up this year, starting with Itauma-Hrgovic on August 29, Dubois-Wardley 2 later this year, then Fury-Joshua, mooted for November.

Moses Itauma vs Filip Hrgovic

"Sparring and training are everything, but the real deal is when you're in the ring. As far as Moses is concerned, I want him to win his fights as quickly as he can. That's it: get in there and do the business. Up to now, he's done it in style. He's surprised me with a couple of fighters, the way he's dealt with them and got rid of them so quickly. But he's in with a real tough campaigner who's never been knocked out as a professional.

"He [Filip Hrgovic] got stopped by Daniel Dubois because off a cut, but in the early part of that fight he was giving Daniel a lot of problems. So that's a tough, tough fight for him. But we believe in him [Itauma]. As far as I'm concerned, he goes in there and does his business. He's a very level-headed and mentally mature 21-year-old, far in advance of his age."

Fabio Wardley vs Daniel Dubois 2

"Great fight. Great fight the first time, and the second one is going to be competitive. We're doing the business here again. We're delivering. The heavyweight division is alive and very active with what Queensberry are doing regularly. These guys aren't sitting on their backsides; they're fighting regularly.

"We'll find out in October. He's hurt Daniel twice and put him down twice early in the fight. Daniel got himself back into it, showed great discipline, boxed extremely well and showed what he's about. It's a good fight. Fabio must feel, because he hurt him, that he's capable of stopping him. He's done it to nearly everybody he's fought, bar one."

Tyson Fury vs Anthony Joshua

"It's a fight we'd all like to see in this country, and its natural home is Wembley. But I understand they've been trying to do it, Sela, and to do it in the early hours of the morning brings all sorts of implications. The fight is on Netflix, and Netflix have been saying they want it in the States. It's all got to be finalised. As I've been saying for ages, I can't tell anybody what they want to hear because nobody knows at this stage what's done. Everyone has to sign off on it, and I think Eddie [Hearn] and AJ have categorically said that, as far as they're concerned, they haven't signed off on anything yet. So that's where we are.

"I work with Tyson. I've got my arrangement with him, and I'll work with him regarding the paymasters for that fight, who have done the deal and who are running the event. That's Sela and Turki [Alalshikh]. They're the ones who have put the guarantees and the money up. They're the ones who paid for the two comeback fights for him. We'll see. Everybody has to agree, but I'm sure they will at the end of the day. It'll all be worked out.

"The main thing is, if it's at Wembley, 90,000-odd people would go. The rest would watch it on television. It's on Netflix, so there's no pay-per-view. If it is in America at Madison Square Garden, about 20,000 can get in, but the millions who will watch it will still be watching it on Netflix. It is what it is."

Heavyweight unification fights

"All these fights are happening. We're making them happen. We won't get any unifications this year because they're all fighting towards the end, in the last quarter. But early next year there will be unification fights."