Dereck Chisora predicts Tyson Fury will be knocked out in his rematch with unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December 21st in Riyadh.
Fury’s Mobility is Gone
The veteran Chisora feels that Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) has gotten old, can’t move like he once did a decade ago, and doesn’t have the youth to defeat Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) in their rematch.
Although the 37-year-old Usyk is a year older than the 36-year-old Fury, he’s much more youthful, spry, and battle-ready than the’ Gyspy King.’
Many fans believe Fury should have been knocked out in his previous fight against Usyk on May 18th, but was saved by the referee on duty that night. Usyk will have learned from that fight and will hammer the living daylights out of Fury with nonstop punches. This time, the referee won’t step in to give a standing eight count to save Fury.
“I don’t think so. I think Usyk stops him this time,” said Dereck Chisora to the talkSport site, when asked if Tyson Fury can avenge his loss to Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch on December 21st.
“That relationship is dying down because when he got with Sugarhill [Steward], they were listening to each other, and now it’s not,” said Chisora, saying things are not going well with Fury and his trainer Sugarhill Steward.
SugarHill’s Tactics Not Working Anymore
In hindsight, Fury should have dumped Sugarhill after his fight against Francis Ngannou last October because it was clear from that match that the limited bag of tricks that the Kronk gym-trained American taught him was no longer practical. Fighters had figured out how to solve that simple mauling approach that Sugarhill taught Fury.
“It’s not the legs. It’s called getting old,” said Chisora about Fury not being able to move like he did when he fought Wladimir Klitschko in 2015.
Fury is an old 36, and he’s been unable to move around the ring the way he once did since his rematch with Deontay Wilder in February 2020. Since then, Fury has used the Sugarhill method of leaning and mauling his opponents.
At this point, it’s unrealistic to hope for Fury to return to the mobile fighter he once was when he defeated Klitschko. Like many chunky, older heavyweights, Fury is now a human slug, using his size to latch onto his opponents and lean.
When Fury tried that method against Usyk, it didn’t work, nor was it effective against the powerful former UFC champion Francis Ngannou.
Fury has gotten away from the mobile fighter he’d been throughout his career, and that stationary style is now causing him problems. We’ve seen that in his last two fights against Usyk and Ngannou.
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