Tyson Fury’s mouth is working extra time once more. Proper after Moses Itauma bulldozed Dillian Whyte in two minutes, Fury jumped on social media to crown the 20-year-old because the destroyer of the heavyweight division.
“Moses Itauma will wreck all them previous males out of the division,” Fury declared. “Usyk, AJ, Miller, whoever there may be who’s previous. Zhang, fuckin’ whoever else there may be, Luis Ortiz. All these large names of the previous are all a spent power.”
Not content material with simply throwing names below the bus, Fury leaned on his regular sermon: “Boxing is a younger man’s recreation, like I informed Wladimir Klitschko when he was 37. Boxing is a younger man’s recreation and it waits for no person. I’ve been retired eight months and I’m an previous man too. Therefore I’m 37 and never 25!”
And to cap it off, he doubled down: “Moses is the way forward for boxing. I’ve been saying it for years.”
Usyk isn’t Ortiz, and he isn’t completed
Right here’s the place the Gypsy King is spitting nonsense. Usyk isn’t Luis Ortiz shuffling by payday fights. He isn’t a washed-up borken Joshua clinging to previous glory. Usyk is one thing else totally. He’s the neatest operator within the heavyweight division, a grasp tactician with footwork that embarrasses giants. He didn’t simply inherit Fury’s belts — he earned them by dissecting everyone put in entrance of him.
If Usyk and Itauma fought tonight, Usyk wins. He frustrates him, outsmarts him, in all probability faculties him over 12 rounds till the child appears human once more. Itauma’s harmful, certain. He’s younger, contemporary, imply, and I consider he’s the actual deal. Calling somebody “the actual deal” is one factor — beating a generational champion proper now’s one other degree totally.
The Jared Anderson curse
Fury’s blessing feels extra like a curse. He stated the identical factor about Jared Anderson not way back — the “way forward for boxing,” the “subsequent one.” Then a 32-year-old Martin Bakole bludgeoned Anderson and despatched that hype practice into the ditch. Déjà vu is lurking.
So yeah, Moses appears particular and is the actual deal. However when Fury offers you his seal of approval, don’t smile — run. His ‘way forward for boxing’ stamp ages careers faster than a dodgy kebab. One minute you’re the subsequent large factor; the subsequent, you’re Jared Anderson questioning what truck simply hit you.
Backside line: I charge Itauma. He’s a younger killer, the form of fighter who may personal this division in a single or two years. But when Fury thinks he’s smashing Usyk in the present day? That’s delusion. Usyk is one thing else, and till confirmed in any other case, he eats children like Moses for breakfast.
