We struggle followers by no means know the place the subsequent nice boxing trilogy will come from. After a terrific struggle, or typically a controversial struggle, the decision for a rematch is large. If the 2 warriors are 1-1, the rubber match has to occur, and the trilogy has to occur. May Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury give us the subsequent nice heavyweight trilogy?
Fury, who, in fact, has to win the return struggle with Usyk on December twenty first to have any shot at sharing a hoop with the one man to have overwhelmed him in a 3rd struggle, is brimming with confidence that he’ll get his revenge in Riyadh 4 days earlier than Christmas – and Fury has advised Boxing King Media that the third struggle between him and Usyk will then occur.
“I feel this will likely be one of many nice trilogies, me and Usyk, like Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. Going again to these days. They have been nice fights, and I imagine after I beat him once more, I’ll undoubtedly do a trilogy with him. 100%. Obtained to be. One every after which the trilogy.”
One can forgive Fury, a proud and passionate fighter, for believing he deserved the win over Usyk in Could and that this is the reason he mentioned, “after I beat him (Usyk) once more,” however Fury, the self-proclaimed boxing historian, made an enormous gaff when he mentioned Dempsey and Tunney boxed a trilogy. As followers know, Tunney and Dempsey really boxed twice, with Gene profitable each fights through choice (the second was the legendary “Lengthy Rely” struggle, with Tunney happening however getting again as much as win, this after being given an extended depend).
If Fury can get the revenge win in December, he and Usyk ought to do it once more, particularly if the second struggle is a detailed battle that goes to the scorecards.
Ali-Frazier maybe ranks as the best heavyweight trilogy ever. On the identical time, the three wars Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield had, the three robust fights Ali and Ken Norton had, and the three slugfests Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson engaged in additionally rank very extremely. Perhaps, years from now, boxing historians will look again on three epic fights between Usyk and Fury.
