Spencer Oliver believes that Tyson Fury needs to use it movement than he had when he beat Wladimir Klitschko in 2015 when he faces Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch on December 21.
Poor mobility
Fury weighed a svelte 247 lbs for his fight with Wladimir on November 28, 2015. He was 27 at the time, still young, and it was before he started having weight problems. After Gyspy King defeated Klitschko by a 12-round unanimous decision in that fight in Düsseldorf, Germany, his weight ballooned to about 400 lbs.
Since then, Fury has never dropped close to the 247lb weight he came in for his fight with Klitschko. It’s safe to say that Fury will NEVER get back to that weight without putting him in the hospital. Once a person gets as heavy as Fury was during his 2 1/2 year victory streak after the Wladimir fight, you never get back to what you were without looking sick.
One insurmountable obstacle preventing that strategy from working for former WBC heavyweight champion Fury is his weight. It has been reported that Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) has bulked up to the 270s to try to use his size to intimidate Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs), as he had successfully done in the his rematch with Deontay Wilder. on February 22, 2020.
Fury bulked up to 273 lbs for that fight, using grappling and roughhouse tactics to submit the lighter 231-lb Wilder. Tyson enjoyed a 42 lbs weight advantage in that fight. That’s not the reason he won, though. Deontay looked confused and couldn’t adjust to Fury frequently rushing to grab him in his bear grip to gobble him up.
Ring IQ deficit
Being heavier against Usyk won’t work as well because it won’t allow Fury to catch him like Deontay and Wladimir. Both fighters lacked the ring IQ that Usyk possesses to overcome Fury, who has repeatedly done the same thing in those fights.
Usyk is not stupid. He won’t allow Fury to duck after throwing a punch, but he won’t back away or catch him with a punch while he’s closing in.
“If Tyson Fury can recover the movement that he had during the 2015 time against Wladimir Klitschko, the rumors are circulating that he could be much heavier for this,” said Spencer Oliver to talkSport Boxing on Fury coming in heavier for the rematch with Usyk on December 21st.
“Will it be his undoing doing that? Because if he tries to intimidate him, I think you are in the hands of Usyk.”
Fury’s obstacles to victory against Usyk
– Weight
– Lack of Ring IQ
– One dimensional game plan: Mauling
– Little mobility
– Years old
– Fragile jaw: punch resistance is gone
– Resistance problems
– No power
“Use that uppercut he did in the sixth round and draw Usyk,” Oliver said of what Fury should do against Usyk.
