Tyson Fury believes he’s acquired to knockout unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk for him to win their rematch on December twenty first in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Final Could, Fury regarded previous, fats, sluggish, and over-the-hill in his loss to Usyk. He was nowhere close to the fighter he’d been 4 years earlier when he defeated Deontay Wilder of their rematch in 2020, however then once more, he’d by no means regarded that muscular earlier than or since.
That was only a bizarre state of affairs the place Fury’s physique modified for one struggle, and he’s returned to wanting flabby ever since. Towards Usyk, Fury regarded ten years older than he’d been 4 years earlier, and he doesn’t look any youthful in his current interviews. That ain’t good going into his rematch as a result of punch resistance is probably not there and positively not his velocity,
Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) isn’t coming proper out and saying it, however he appears to imagine that he was given a uncooked deal in his 12-round break up choice to Usyk earlier this 12 months on Could 18th. He says he nonetheless thinks he gained the struggle and ignores the enterprise that went on within the ninth spherical, the place the referee saved him.
This incapability for Fury to just accept that he didn’t carry out nicely towards the quicker, extra agile Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) means that he’s not going to make the enhancements wanted for him to win subsequent time.
One downside that the 36-year-old Fury has is there’s little incentive for him to win as a result of His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has already mentioned that he can nonetheless struggle Anthony Joshua, even when he loses to Usyk within the rematch.
Which means that the rematch with Usyk is only a throwaway and means nothing as a result of Fury nonetheless goes to the large AJ struggle anyway. If everybody had a soft setup the place they might fail and nonetheless get the large payday, it will be nice. The entire world could be a bunch of slackers.
“I didn’t assume he beat me final time, and I’m rattling certain not going to let him beat me this time,” mentioned Tyson Fury to iFL TV about his loss to Oleksandr Usyk earlier this 12 months on Could 18th in Riyadh.
I hate to interrupt this to Fury, however Usyk schooled you, and he ought to have had a knockout within the ninth if not for the referee giving an odd standing eight depend. It regarded just like the referee was serving to out Fury in the identical method Joshua seemed to be getting a serving to hand from the referee who labored his current match towards Daniel Dubois.
“I’ve acquired to knock him out, and I’ll be coaching for a great knockout, and I’ll get it like Wilder 2,” mentioned Fury. “I mentioned I used to be going to knock him out, and I did. I’m going to knock him out this time, and I’ll. Consider it first. He acquired the choice over me, and I acquired to run it again. It is sensible to do the rematch and get my victory again.”
Fury’s probabilities of knocking out Usyk are slim, and none. This isn’t the no-skilled Deontay Wilder he’s preventing. Usyk really has the flexibility, and he’ll simply get out of the best way of Fury’s telegraphed punches. The leaning bit that Fury used towards Wilder gained’t work as a result of Usyk gained’t enable him to seize, maintain, and lean. Wilder shouldn’t have both, however he was hopeless for that struggle and the trilogy.
“I’ve acquired previous the purpose of actually caring. It most likely took that call to wake me up and provides me the kind of aggression again the place I wish to smash somebody in,” mentioned Fury.
