Tyson Fury has decided he wants another shot against the master, Oleksandr Usyk, choosing to take the rematch with the undefeated Oleksandr Usyk after his embarrassing loss last Saturday night.
Assuming Fury doesn’t change his mind, he’s going to have to begin training camp by July to begin preparing for the rematch with Usyk. I think it’s pretty obvious to all that Fury was knocked out in the ninth round last Saturday night in the true sense. That ain’t nearly enough time for Fury’s fragile chin to recover.
The only thing Fury is going to achieve in a rematch with Usyk is getting knocked out faster. Fury fans will insist that he wasn’t knocked KO’d last weekend, but we saw what happened. Tyson was knocked out and needed the referee to save him.
The 35-year-old Gypsy King can’t count on another referee doing the same because there will be a giant spotlight on whoever works the rematch.
Postponement on the Horizon?
That’s not much time for the Gypsy King to recover from the beatdown he took in the ninth round from the talented unified champion Usyk. After that kind of beating, Fury needs at least a good year for his chin to recover, I think.
Once Fury begins sparring in preparation for the rematch, his training partners could knock him around the ring. If Fury’s training camp is a demolition derby, I see a postponement happening immediately. Training camp will be a preview of what’s going to happen to Fury once he gets in the ring with Usyk in the rematch.
I suspect there’s a good chance the Fury-Usyk fight will be postponed if Fury is getting hammered by his sparring partners because he’ll realize that he has no chance of winning a rematch.
The rematch hasn’t been made official for October, but Fury reportedly has said he wants the second fight. So unless someone from his team can convince Fury what he stands to lose by facing the undisputed heavyweight champion Usyk again in terms of loads of cash, he’s going to stubbornly take the fight. I personally think it’s a stupid idea, but Fury’s pride is getting the better of him.
Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) may end up regretting his decision to fight the undisputed heavyweight champion Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) because I see the Gypsy King getting knocked out in the rematch.
Usyk: The Fury Slayer
After Usyk’s success last weekend, hurting Fury in the ninth round, and seeing the referee prevent him from finishing off the old lion, he’s going to make sure he can’t be saved next time.
Fury doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of winning the rematch with Usyk, and the only real drama about the fight is whether the referee will save Tyson again like we saw last Saturday night. The Gypsy King’s glass chin is going to be even more vulnerable in the rematch because he’s not going to have recovered from what he went through in the ninth round.
What we saw last Saturday night in Riyadh is that the 35-year-old Fury’s punch resistance is completely gone after 16 years in the professional ranks, and he can’t take a shot anymore. Usyk, who isn’t the biggest puncher, had the behemoth in all kinds of trouble in the ninth round, hitting him at will with shots.
“It was an even fight. It could have gone either way,” said promoter Frank Warren to talkSport Boxing, believing that last Saturday’s fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk was a close fight.
“This was no loss for Tyson Fury. It was a very close fight. One judge gave it to Tyson by one round. I gave it to him by one round,” said Warren, saying he thought his fighter Fury won.
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