Oleksandr Usyk is aware of he can damage the goliath Tyson Fury, and that’s going to make it subsequent inconceivable for the previous WBC heavyweight champion to battle the way in which he must for him to be victorious of their rematch on December twenty first on the Kingdom Enviornment in Riyadh.
The Hitman’s Intent
Usyk received their earlier battle by a 12-round break up determination on Could 18th, however this time, he desires to knock him out, and his complete ‘Hitman’ persona is a message of intent.
Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) has stated in interviews that he’s not proud of the way in which he fought in his loss to unified heavyweight champion Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs), combating passively along with his again in opposition to the ropes, showboating, and gifting away spherical.
Within the rematch, Fury desires to return ahead and assault Usyk with energy pictures like he did within the early rounds of their first battle. ‘The Gypsy King’ stated he desires to return out “Hot” from spherical one, backing up the smaller man and utilizing his measurement to attain a knockout.
“I’m coming in hot. I can’t wait. Twenty-first of December, the belts are going to be mine again,” stated Fury on social media. “I’m going to knock him out.”
Fury’s determination to return in heavier for the rematch will make it tough for him to battle arduous with out gassing after 4 or 5 rounds, as within the first battle with Usyk. Carrying round 270+ lbs can be tough for Fury, and Usyk will make issues tougher for him with the quick tempo he units.
“Usyk is fighting on the front foot all the time, and that is slowing Fury down. Fury is not in control. He is normally in control of fights where he sets the pace,” stated Ade Oladipo on his YouTube channel, speaking in regards to the rematch between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk on December twenty first.
“It isn’t just the pace that caused Tyson Fury so many problems [against Usyk]. It was, ‘This guy is setting a pace, and it’s difficult to keep up with the pace.’ That’s what Usyk did. He set a pace, and eventually, Fury got tired a little bit, hands down, and that was that. Usyk is going to take confidence from the last five or six rounds.”
The way in which their earlier battle ended final time, Fury seemed 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 battle to win a 12-round break up determination.
The Gypsy King’s followers level out that he at all times 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 seem like an growing older, foolish, overrated, and pampered fighter who was by no means pretty much as good as his naive followers had thought. Whether or not you need to agree that Fury is an overrated and pampered fighter or not, there’s no mistaking the truth that he’s growing older.
Bodily, the 36-year-old seems to be virtually as previous 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 individuals. When an individual is letting themselves achieve weight in between fights, as Fury has accomplished, it ages them after they’ve received to weight loss program to lose the kilos quickly.
“Usyk is going to get in there, thinking he can hurt Fury because he does hurt fighters he gets in the ring with, but now we know 100% that he can hurt Fury,” stated Ade. “That changes quite a lot. You can’t march forward with your hands down, knowing this guy 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 strain to win.
If Fury tries to stroll Usyk down, he’s going to run into numerous pictures. Within the first battle, 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 battle off the ropes like final time.
“Usyk now knows he can knock Fury out, and Fury knows that as well. Tyson Fury does do better in rematches. Wilder in the second fight, who would have predicted that? Chisora is not a world-level fighter, but the times he fought Chisora in a rematch, he completely outclassed him. So, he does get better,” stated Ade.
Fury-Usyk scores
– Usyk: 114-113– Fury: 114-113– Usyk: 115-112
