Tyson Fury goes down hurt by a long shot from Oleksandr Usyk in the ninth round of their previous fight on May 18.
Former WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs), who many believe can no longer take a punch, dismisses the idea that he has a glass chin, saying he could have been hit with the same punch by Usyk. a “a million times” and he would have done nothing. We know otherwise.
The price of war
Deontay Wilder may have completely destroyed Fury from his three fights with him, dropping him four times and robbing him of two knockout wins. Gyspy King emerged from these three battles a broken soldier, dragging himself off the battlefield, physically damaged beyond repair by any doctor. When Fury gets hit hard, he can’t take it anymore.
This is so obvious now. He was smart to pick Derek Chisora and Dillian Whyte as his opponents after his third fight with Wilder in 2021. These two homegrown heavyweights lacked the talent to show that their punching resistance had deteriorated.
When he fought Usyk, he was exposed. Fury is not the same fighter anymore and won’t last long in the rematch with Usyk unless the referee runs interference for him. If you’re Turki Alalshikh, it would be a good idea to start planning for another heavyweight to match Anthony Joshua in 2025, but it would be funny if Fury is still getting used to him coming off two consecutive defeats.
As we all saw last May. The referee saved Fury from being knocked out in the ninth round when he pulled Usyk out of the way just as he was about to finish off Tyson with the punch that would have sent him flying at the speed of light into the HD1 galaxy. That would be it for Fury. Usyk is going to get the job done this time and not allow the referee to prevent what should have been done the first time.
“He could have punched me with that fist a million times, and it might not have had any effect, but he punched me and it had an effect, and that was great for him,” Tyson Fury said. DAZNrevealing that Oleksandr Usyk injured him last May.
“It was perfect,” Usyk said of the punch that hurt Fury.
A changed fighter
Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) will test Fury’s chin again in 16 days on December 21 in the rematch at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. Many believe that unified heavyweight champion Usyk will go after Fury from the opening bell, loading up on his left hands in an attempt to knock him out.
Fury looked like a physical wreck during the Face Off with Usyk on DAZN. I was trying to figure out how he was the same fighter who had beaten Wladimir Klitschko nine years earlier in 2015 in Germany. Fury looks like he’s been put in some sort of aging chamber that has sped up his life. It does NOT look good.
