Tyson Fury channels inner Tupac to mock Oleksandr Usyk’s ‘fu*k all’ punching power failing to produce a KO

Ex-WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury expects to storm unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk’s parade in their rematch. Oleksandr Usyk won their first go in May via split decision. One judge had it for Fury, 114-113. But the other two had Usyk sweeping the floor with 115-112 and 114-113. Yet, the rivalry didn’t end.

Tyson Fury plays down the injury from Oleksandr Usyk’s big shot in the ninth round of their last fight on 18 May. ‘The Cat’ opened strong and stable, but the Brit turned things around in R4. He even rocked Usyk with an uppercut in R7. But the tide turned when Usyk almost finished him. The former champion now dismisses that he has a glass chin. Listen to the man in his own groove ahead of the rematch.

KO artist Deontay Wilder may have ruined Fury for good in his three fights with him. No wonder he wisely chose Derek Chisora and Dillian Whyte as opponents after his third Wilder fight in 2021. Neither of these two domestic heavyweights had the talent to show that their punching power was on the wane. But the 4-belt era’s first undisputed heavyweight Usyk is a different game.

Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) tested Fury’s chin again in 16 days when they rematch at Riyadh’s Kingdom Arena. Many believe unified heavyweight champion Usyk will go after Fury from the opening bell, loading up on lefts. This Tyson Fury again looked out-of-sorts; kind of the one that wobbled against a debuting Francis Ngannou. Looking like a physical wreck, some believe his usual playbook won’t work anymore.

Why Tyson Fury’s old tricks won’t work against the undisputed champ in their rematch

Spencer Oliver said Tyson Fury requires the use of his movement he had when he beat Wladimir Klitschko in 2015 when he rematches with Oleksandr Usyk. The Ukrainian heavyweight recently beat the British heavyweight to become the first undisputed heavyweight champ in the 4-belt era.

The Morecambe native already showed he’s worse for the wear when he pummeled and faceplanted at a bar. His current shape against Oleksandr Usyk is no logic-defining resolute frame either. Fury weighed in at a slender 247lbs to fight Wladimir on 28 November 2015. He was 27 years old before he began to struggle with his weight. He has ballooned to around 400lbs since!

Weight cuts are the biggest insurmountable obstacle that he has right now. It’s stopping Tyson Fury from hydrating up to 270lbs and bullying Usyk with better reach and slicker uppercuts and hooks than before.

Fury is also on the down low, playing the oh-jolly-good banter. Usyk proved he is a different blade altogether and looking for absolution – killer absolution. Oliver thinks it’d be a ring IQ hazard to lunge in at ‘Cat’. Shorter in the frame, Usyk manages distance well and can make himself a smaller target. He won’t let Fury rush in after throwing a punch, but won’t move away or hit him while he’s coming forward.

Being heavier against Usyk won’t work nearly as well because he won’t allow Fury to grab him in the way that Wilder and Klitschko did. Both lacked Usyk’s ring IQ to outsmart Fury, who did the same in those fights. That and his glass mandible makes for quite the injury-prone attribute.

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