The Rematch between Tyson Fury and unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will take place on December 21st at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, 33 days from now.
Many fans view this as a simple cut-and-dried case of Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) doing the job on the 36-year-old former WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-1-1 24 KOs) a second time. He’ll put Fury out of his misery.
Wealth Has Ruined Fury
The huge wealth that Fury has accumulated in the last four years has made him soft, taking away the hunger and ambition that made him the fighter he once was.
With a net worth of $140 million, Fury doesn’t look like he’s mentally engaged in his job and is just going through the motions at this point for the money. It’s got to be next impossible to stay motivated when you’re sitting on a fortune like the one Fury has, and the money keeps rolling in.
You often see him on vacations in beautiful surroundings, enjoying the life of a rich millionaire. He’s not living the life of a soldier on the frontlines, drinking dirty water from a canteen and eating whatever he can scrape up.
Is This The End For Fury?
For Fury to succeed in the rematch, he must come forward, put pressure, and not back up against the smaller man as he did in their first fight on May 18th. Fury gave away the fight by fighting on the ropes and not attacking Usyk like he’d done in his two victories over Deontay Wilder.
Losing a second time to Usyk will signal the end of Fury’s career as a serious fighter. Yeah, he’ll still be able to get one or two massive paydays against Anthony Joshua in Riyadh, given that His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has already said those fights will still happen regardless of the outcome of their next fights.
Daniel Dubois has already knocked out Joshua, and he looks like a shot fighter. Again, there’s still a lot of dough for Fury to make against Joshua, regardless of how badly Usyk whips him this time.
Outside of the UK, Fury is viewed as a fraud, a manufactured fighter who was maneuvered like a chess piece by his promoters to steer him through rough waters and build an unbeaten record until he was upset by Usyk last May. Looking at Fury’s resume, filled with stiffs and gimme fights, it’s obvious fans were duped.
They thought he was better than he actually was, but he was never the fighter that they were led to believe. Don’t get me wrong. Fury was still a good British-level heavyweight, but not a true world-class guy that you could throw in the ring with a tough heavyweight like Martin Bakole and expect him to remain upright for long.
Even in that fight, the referee almost saved Fury from a loss and the judges’ whack scoring. That should have been a clear 9-3 win for Usyk, but the judges scored it a 12-round split decision.
Scores
114-113 – Usyk
114-113 – Fury
115-112 – Usyk
Some feel that Fury didn’t like the sharp, accurate sniper shots that Usyk was nailing him with when he did come forward, so he opted to fight on the ropes, trying to make it hard for him to land his headshots.
Fury was leaning back against the ropes, making his head as far away as possible for Usyk to connect. That wasn’t effective, though, because Usyk crowded Fury, landing punches to his well-stuffed breadbasket and then catching him with surprisingly powerful shots to the head.
The Gypsy King doesn’t seem to be taking his career as seriously as he once did, as we’ve seen in his last couple of fights against Usyk and Francis Ngannou. Those both should have been losses for Fury.
Fury vs. Usyk 1 Punch Stats
Oleksandr Usyk – 170 of 407 shots with 42% connect rate
Tyson Fury – 57 of 496 shots for 32% connect rate
6️⃣ months on from Fury vs. Usyk 🤯
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