Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. can’t see the smaller IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk defeat WBC champ Tyson Fury until he improves his punching energy by Might 18th, when the 2 battle for the undisputed championship in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Jones Jr. thinks Usyk wants a Hulk-like transformation within the energy division to defeat the mammoth Fury.
Roy Jr. feels that the previous undisputed cruiserweight champion Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs), who weighed in at 221 lbs for his final contest towards Daniel Dubois, doesn’t have sufficient dimension to beat the 6’9″, 270+ lb Goliath, Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs).
Fury’s Grappling Sport: A Signal of Weak point
The actual query is, will Fury be capable to seize and wrestle Usyk to maintain from getting picked other than him? With out Fury holding & leaning, he doesn’t stand an opportunity towards Usyk as a result of he’s too sluggish.
Jones Jr. maintains that the 6’3″ southpaw Usyk would have a shot at defeating the 35-year-old Fury if he had explosive energy, however he doesn’t and hasn’t improved in that space since shifting up from cruiserweight to heavyweight in 2019.
“Usyk is a good tactician, however he’s not all that explosive,” Roy Jones Jr. informed Talksport.
“If he was explosive, it will be an issue. If you find yourself smaller coming as much as the massive guys, you’ve bought to convey explosives to the ring, or they gained’t respect you.
“If he can’t discover these explosives earlier than that struggle takes place, he is not going to beat Tyson Fury; I don’t care what they are saying.”
Usyk’s Weapons Go Past Brute Power
What Jones Jr. might be overlooking is Usyk’s superior pace, mobility, athleticism, and ring IQ on this contest. He’s a significantly better boxer than the slow-footed Fury, who, at this level in his profession, has became a grappler.
Usyk’s Instruments to Defeat Fury
Pace
Ring IQ
Athleticism: Olympic pedigree
Fury is sluggish, throws weak pictures, after which falls ahead to seize his opponents to start mauling them. He does lots of holding & hitting, wrestling with occasional rabbit punches and elbows. In different phrases, Fury has morphed right into a easy roughouse fighter.
In Fury’s final struggle towards novice Francis Ngannou, he was crushed to the punch all night time, knocked down, and outclassed by the previous UFC champion. Fury seemed far older than his 35 years, nearer to 50, and had zero mobility.
The motion that the Gypsy King Fury as soon as had 9 years in the past when he upset 40-year-old Wladimir Klitschko by a razor-close 12-round choice was gone.
Some followers attribute Fury’s misplaced mobility and hand pace to him coming in at a career-high of 277 towards Ngannou, however he’s been exhibiting the deterioration lengthy earlier than that struggle. Age kicked in years in the past with Fury, and that’s one of many causes he’s turn into a mauler.
