Tyson Fury has cast fresh doubt on Anthony Joshua’s ability to absorb punishment, seizing on Daniel Dubois’ latest victory as evidence that his future opponent may be vulnerable when the punches get heavy.

Speaking on Instagram after Dubois stopped Fabio Wardley to retain his WBO heavyweight title in Manchester, Fury dissected the knockout artist’s recent record and drew a sharp contrast between Joshua and other elite heavyweights who have shared the ring with Dubois.

Fury noted that Dubois halted Jarrell Big Baby Miller, Filip Hrgovic and Wardley without flooring any of them, and also landed cleanly on Oleksandr Usyk without scoring a knockdown. Yet against Joshua, Dubois produced five knockdowns before forcing a fifth-round stoppage in their IBF heavyweight title clash.

“Dubois fought Big Baby Miller, stopped him, but never put him down. Then he fought Hrgovic, stopped him, but never put him down. He fought Wardley in an unbelievable fight, stopped him, and never put him down. He hit Usyk with some big bombs, never put him over,” Fury said.

“But yet he fights Anthony Joshua and pummels him to the floor five times. I’m not saying Anthony Joshua’s chinless, but they’re the facts. Take it as you wish and as you will. Everybody else never went over. Not a singular person — Big Baby Miller, Hrgovic, Usyk, or Wardley — but Joshua goes down five times. Chinny.”

For Fury, the pattern reinforces a long-running narrative around Joshua, whose stoppage defeats to Andy Ruiz Jr, Usyk and now Dubois have repeatedly raised questions about his punch resistance under sustained fire.

The timing of Fury’s comments is significant. The two British heavyweights are contracted to meet in a long-awaited showdown, expected to take place in the final quarter of 2026, a bout that would finally settle years of rivalry and debate over supremacy in the UK’s heavyweight scene.

That blockbuster, however, hinges on Joshua navigating a high-risk assignment against heavy-handed Albanian contender Kristian Prenga in Riyadh. Promoters Eddie Hearn and Frank Warren have made clear that any slip-up there would derail the Fury fight, adding extra intrigue to Fury’s public questioning of Joshua’s durability.