Carl Frampton says Dillian Whyte has more than a puncher’s chance against Tyson Fury – but expects heavyweight world champion to win all-British showdown

Carl Frampton says Dillian Whyte is a fighter that has the tools to give Tyson Fury problems - but he fully expects the Gypsy King to come through the Battle of Britain showdown and retain his heavyweight world crown.

Fury and Whyte meet next weekend at Wembley Stadium - live on talkSPORT - with the WBC heavyweight title on the line in one of the UK’s biggest ever domestic clashes.

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A record-breaking 94,000 crowd is expected at Wembley Stadium for the bout, where Whyte will finally get his world title shot some five years after becoming the WBC’s number one contender.

Frampton says if you were to build a fighter to challenge Fury, it would be very much in the mould of Whyte.

But the former two-weight world champion is not anticipating an upset, with Fury backed to extend his unbeaten record.

“Dillian Whyte is a good fighter,’ Frampton told talkSPORT. “A really credible opponent for a fight of this magnitude, he's a good fighter. And he can punch, good left-hook, good jab, tough as well. I think if you build a fighter for [challenging] Tyson Fury, you'd build something close to Dillian Whyte. 

“A shorter, more squat guy, aggressive, a hooker who is a bit wild. I think that's Dillian Whyte, isn't it? He's got more than a puncher's chance, I think it's a bit disrespectful to say that.

“He's got bags and bags of determination and probably a bit of a chip on his shoulder because people think this is going to be an easy fight.

"But it's hard for me to see anything other than a Tyson Fury victory and I think that he may stop him late on."

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Fury is coming off a legendary trilogy with Deontay Wilder where he showed a variety of strengths and gameplans to get the job done.

What would Frampton advise the champion do against Whyte at Wembley?

“If I'm the coach, you're telling him to box him. Go back to the tactics we've seen in the first Wilder fight, although it was a draw - everybody knows that he won that fight - I think if it was me, that would be the tactics you would use," he said.

“Who knows what we're going to see; he might stand and have a fight with him. That's what he said 'I'm going to stand there and meet him in the middle of the ring and fight.' 

“Someone made an interesting point: After all the years of ballooning up in weight, drink and drugs and everything else that has been well documented, maybe the second and third Wilder fight, those performances were because he can't do what he done previously in the first part of his career. Now he has to stand and plant his feet. 

“That might be the case as well, but I haven't been inside the training camp. If Tyson is able to get up on his toes, that would be my advice for him and I think it'll be an easy night for him if he does that."