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Shakur Stevenson is giving Tyson Fury the sting to defeat unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday evening of their rematch in Saudi Arabia.
Shakur’s Prediction
The WBC light-weight champion Stevenson says Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) will win if he’s in “shape” and stays “focused. ” Shakur provides Fury a 55-45 probability of defeating WBA, WBC, and WBO champion Usyk.
The bearded Fury seems to be in form for him, however that will not make a distinction. He was in form final time he fought Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) on Could 18th, and nonetheless misplaced the battle by a 12-round cut up choice.
Fury’s downside isn’t his conditioning. It’s his glass jaw from his three fights with Deontay Wilder. He can’t take a punch anymore, and Usyk will expose that weak point on Saturday, similar to he did of their earlier battle when he had him out on his toes within the ninth spherical in Riyadh.
Usyk so nice tho bro it’s so onerous going in opposition to him over the course of a 12 spherical battle.. I’m like 55-45 Fury on this one.. All Fury gotta do is are available form and keep targeted for the complete battle!!
Harmful Power?
“I’m looking forward to a fight that I’m going to win and be destructive and spiteful in,” stated Tyson Fury to Queensberry Promotions, predicting a win in opposition to Oleksandr Usyk. “I was landing at will basically. They said I couldn’t come forward, and then me and SugarHill [Steward] come together, and I became a destructive puncher and began knocking everyone out.”
The opponents Fury has knocked out since teaming up with SugarHill Steward in December 2019 have been nothing particular. Since then, Fury has knocked out two British-level heavyweights, and Deontay Wilder, a non-world-class fighter, maneuvered into successful his WBC world title by intelligent matchmaking.
Fury’s Knockouts Beneath SugarHill’s Watch
– Dereck Chisora: *Journeyman– Dillian Whyte: Ditto– Deontay Wilder x 2
If Fury had knocked out a few of the good heavyweights, like Martin Bakole or Daniel Dubois, then you possibly can say SugarHill remodeled him right into a “destructive puncher,” however he’s overwhelmed three scrubs.
Rationalizing Defeat
“He won this fight by one point last time, by a round,” stated Fury about Usyk. “If one of those other rounds, I’d have got it from one of those rounds from one to twelve. If the rounds had been identical in the rounds that I’d won and lost, then it would have been a draw,” stated Fury, attempting to rationalize.
“If I had gotten any of the other rounds and I didn’t get a 10-8, I would have won it.”
