By: Sean Crose
Wanting like a Bond villain, WBC, WBA, and WBO heavyweight champion of the world Oleksandr Usyk took half in a press convention Wednesday with former WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury to advertise their Decemeber twenty first rematch in Saudi Arabia. The primary struggle between the 2 males, which went down in Could, was razor shut, although Usyk was in the end awarded the victory. But Fury, who suffered his first defeat that bout, appeared relaxed nicely centered whereas chatting with the assembled media in London on Wednesday.
“I’m simply trying ahead to a unbelievable struggle,” the person often known as “The Gypsy King” mentioned. “Final time in Could it was a unbelievable struggle. Oleksandr received the struggle truthful and sq.. (I’m) simply seeking to placed on an amazing struggle once more. It was very shut final time. He acquired it by some extent.”
Fury made it clear, nevertheless, that he feels he can win the rematch. “A bit of bit extra focus, a little bit bit extra lack of complacency, and I ought to do the job I must do,” he mentioned. “Nothing drastic has to vary, a bit extra the identical, a little bit bit extra centered like I say and I shall be victorious.” Certainly, Fury indicated {that a} knockout victory may nicely be so as.
“As it could appear, my rematch with folks all the time finally ends up a method,” he mentioned. “I all the time find yourself knocking them out within the rematch. Whoever I’ve confronted greater than as soon as has been knocked out within the rematch. I’m envisioning one thing comparable within the second struggle with Usyk.” With that being mentioned, the primary struggle was shut sufficient that it’s tough to say which path the rematch will go.
“All I can do is put together nicely, practice arduous, eat nicely, go to mattress early, get up early, do the appropriate issues, hearken to folks round me, and the remainder is in God’s fingers. Final time in Could it wasn’t my time to win or else the Almighty would have have given me the victory and I’m very completely satisfied Usyk acquired the choice as a result of God’s timing is just not late, He’s not imperfect, it’s perfection in order that (the Usyk victory) was meant to be and we’re going to seek out out what is supposed to be on December 21st. I imagine it is going to be my time this time. “
This was a extra critical Fury on Wednesday, one which isn’t all the time current in such situations. “I imagine that each one issues that occur, adverse or optimistic, are classes we should study from the issues that we undergo in our lives. We will solely do the most effective we will do as human beings, and as boxers, and as fathers, and as husbands, and every part else. We will solely do the most effective we will do as males, and that what we all know the way to do greatest is to go in there and knock the fuck out of one another in a struggle and to placed on a present for the paying buyer. ”
As for Bond villain Usyk (who, like Fury, has no drawback performing goofy for the cameras) he appeared to need to preserve in character Wednesday. He even requested Fury to signal a photograph of him punching Fury within the face throughout their first struggle. Fury obliged. “I don’t have motivation,” Usyk said deadpan. “Solely my routine below my focus. That is my motivation. Sufficient.”
