Oleksandr Usyk is aware of he can damage the goliath Tyson Fury, and that’s going to make it subsequent unimaginable for the previous WBC heavyweight champion to struggle the way in which he must for him to be victorious of their rematch on December twenty first on the Kingdom Area in Riyadh.
The Hitman’s Intent
Usyk received their earlier struggle by a 12-round break up determination on Could 18th, however this time, he needs to knock him out, and his entire ‘Hitman’ persona is a message of intent.
Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) has mentioned in interviews that he’s not pleased with the way in which he fought in his loss to unified heavyweight champion Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs), combating passively together with his again in opposition to the ropes, showboating, and giving freely spherical.
Within the rematch, Fury needs to come back ahead and assault Usyk with energy photographs like he did within the early rounds of their first struggle. ‘The Gypsy King’ mentioned he needs to come back out “Sizzling” from spherical one, backing up the smaller man and utilizing his measurement to attain a knockout.
“I’m coming in scorching. I can’t wait. Twenty-first of December, the belts are going to be mine once more,” mentioned Fury on social media. “I’m going to knock him out.”
Fury’s determination to come back in heavier for the rematch will make it troublesome for him to struggle onerous with out gassing after 4 or 5 rounds, as within the first struggle with Usyk. Carrying round 270+ lbs can be troublesome for Fury, and Usyk will make issues more durable for him with the quick tempo he units.
“Usyk is combating on the entrance foot on a regular basis, and that’s slowing Fury down. Fury is just not in management. He’s usually in charge of fights the place he units the tempo,” mentioned Ade Oladipo on his YouTube channel, speaking concerning the rematch between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk on December twenty first.
“It isn’t simply the tempo that prompted Tyson Fury so many issues [against Usyk]. It was, ‘This man is setting a tempo, and it’s troublesome to maintain up with the tempo.’ That’s what Usyk did. He set a tempo, and ultimately, Fury acquired drained just a little bit, fingers down, and that was that. Usyk goes to take confidence from the final 5 or 6 rounds.”
The way in which their earlier struggle ended final time, Fury regarded ruined, and he was lucky to not have been stopped. Usyk had figured him out by the eighth spherical and battered him within the final quarter of the struggle to win a 12-round break up determination.
The Gypsy King’s followers level out that he all the time wins his rematches, however the fighters he’s crushed had been three non-world-level guys:
– John McDermott– Derek Chisora– Deontay Wilder
The Gypsy King’s Decline
Fury’s loss wounded his self-pride, making him appear like an ageing, foolish, overrated, and pampered fighter who was by no means pretty much as good as his naive followers had thought. Whether or not you wish to agree that Fury is an overrated and pampered fighter or not, there’s no mistaking the truth that he’s ageing.
Bodily, the 36-year-old appears virtually as outdated as 58-year-old Mike Tyson, and he didn’t carry out significantly better than him. This simply exhibits that chronological age means nothing to folks. When an individual is letting themselves achieve weight in between fights, as Fury has carried out, it ages them after they’ve acquired to weight loss plan to lose the kilos quickly.
“Usyk goes to get in there, pondering he can damage Fury as a result of he does damage fighters he will get within the ring with, however now we all know 100% that he can damage Fury,” mentioned Ade. “That modifications quite a bit. You possibly can’t march ahead together with your fingers down, understanding this man can knock you out.”
The truth that Usyk can damage Fury limits a lot of what Tyson can do to show issues round within the rematch, as a result of he can’t depend on utilizing stress to win.
If Fury tries to stroll Usyk down, he’s going to run into quite a lot of photographs. Within the first struggle, Fury was deterred from coming ahead by the physique punches that Usyk was hitting him with, and that’s why he retreated to the ropes to guard this sizeable goal. With Fury’s midsection even chunkier, it’s going to be an inviting goal as soon as once more, and that’s going to drive him to struggle off the ropes like final time.
“Usyk now is aware of he can knock Fury out, and Fury is aware of that as properly. Tyson Fury does do higher in rematches. Wilder within the second struggle, who would have predicted that? Chisora is just not a world-level fighter, however the occasions he fought Chisora in a rematch, he fully outclassed him. So, he does get higher,” mentioned Ade.
Fury-Usyk scores
– Usyk: 114-113– Fury: 114-113– Usyk: 115-112
