Tyson Fury downplays being hurt by a heavy blow 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, dispels the idea that he has a glass chin, saying he could have been hit with the same punch from Usyk. a “millions of times” and would have done nothing. We know otherwise.
The price of war
Deontay Wilder may have permanently ruined Fury from his three fights with him, dropping him four times and being robbed of two KO wins. King Gyspy emerged from those three fights as a broken soldier, dragging himself off the battlefield, physically damaged beyond repair by any doctor. When Fury is hit hard, he can’t handle it anymore.
It is so obvious now. He was smart to choose Derek Chisora and Dillian Whyte as his opponents after his third fight with Wilder in 2021. Those two heavyweights of the domestic level lacked talent to show that their punch resistance was deteriorating.
When he fought Usyk, he was exposed. Fury is no longer the same fighter, and he won’t last long in the rematch with Usyk unless the referee matches the interference for him. If you are Turki Alalshikh, it would be a good idea to start planning another heavyweight to fight against Anthony Joshua in 2025, but it would be a joke if Fury is still 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 threw Usyk out of the way just as he was about to finish Tyson with the knockout punch that would have sent him flying at the speed of light at the galaxy HD1. It would have been for Fury. Usyk will finish the job this time and not allow the referee to prevent what should have been done the first time.
“He could have punched me with that punch a million times, and it may not have had any effect, but he punched me, and it had an effect, and that was great for him,” said Tyson Fury to DAZNmaking light of Oleksandr Usyk who 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 their 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 the left hand, looking to knock him out.
Fury looked like a physical wreck during his Face Off with Usyk on DAZN. I tried to understand how this 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 doesn’t look good.
