Tyson Fury vs Dillian Whyte press conference LIVE: Latest updates as heavyweights face off before fight

Fury: “Sparring is sparring. Dillian came in and did his job, helping me prepare for a fight. It’s not about: ‘He beat me up in a spar, I beat him up in a spar.’

“We were friends, we went out for a drink, we ate together, we slept together.”

Whyte: “We didn’t sleep together, bro! We slept in the same vicinity, but we didn’t sleep together!”

Whyte: “We won’t know [if I’m ready to be champion] until we get there. I’m not one to sit here and bull***. I take every day as it comes, I don’t say: ‘I’m gonna be this, that.’ My life has been tough. It’s easier now, but it’s still a battle.”

Fury: “He’s a good fighter. He’s big, strong, he’s tough. He’s got good power, he’s knocked out a lot of men.”

Whyte drops a “that’s what she said” joke.

Whyte: “I wanted to fight [Alexander] Povetkin two months after the loss [to him].”

Whyte: “I’ve been working on being adaptable, I’m gonna have to adapt constantly, make smart decisions. That’s it.”

Whyte: “It means everything to me to fight in my home country and for the world title, especially at Wembley – it’s not too far from where I’m from.

“Like Tyson said, we didn’t expect to be here – me especially. But I’m ready to go. You ain’t gonna hear no bulls*** from me, I’m ready to rock and roll.”

On missing the first press conference: “I ain’t scared of s***, I ain’t hiding from s***. Stuff needed to get done; obviously the fight was signed but stuff needed to get done.”

Fury: “A massive thank you to everyone who spent their hard-earned money on a ticket, on the pay-per-view.”

Fury: “Four years away, and now I’m fighting my old pal Dillian Whyte in England for all the glory, all the belts.

“I didn’t think, probably he didn’t think we’d be doing 94,000 people.

“There was Mr Golden B*****s [Anthony Joshua], he got stopped by a middleweight. Where’s he now?”

Fury: “I’m training good, training went well. I started training in about January for this fight. Seven weeks with Sugarhill, we’ve had a great preparation, there’s never any complaints from me.

“I’m sure Dillian’s had a good training camp as well, he’s a good fighting man.

“We’re gonna see a good tear-up. I know Dillian personally, he knows me. It’ll be a barnstomer.”

Frank Warren: “You’ve got the best heavyweight of his generation, and then this young man... How long have you been waiting, Dillian? Seven hundred days?”

Whyte: “I dunno. So long that I forgot.”