Tyson Luke Fury v Oleksandr Usyk undisputed

Usyk points.

Fury's footwork has gone so Usyk is a stylistic nightmare for him. Usyk will be in and out of range all night landing point-scoring shots. Fury won't be able to pin him down to lean on him/bully him like he did with Wilder and he's not catching him with a big shot like he did with Whyte.

 

My thoughts too.

I also laugh at the "Tyson will lean on him". Guess what? That will tire Tyson out too. Badly.

 

Think it's all down to how much boozing and pigging out Fury does (not to mention the other stuff). He started on the burgers and beers straight after the Chisora fight and that will carry through to the new year. It's whether he whips himself into the kind of shape he needs to keep Usyk at bay for 12 rounds. Personally think he needs to slim down as near to 2015 levels as he can.

Usyk has better footwork than every opponent Fury has faced since put together - he looked like a viper against AJ and he won't be there to lean on or wrestle with. The clubbing shots landed against Wilder won't get near Usyk either. A fit and fast Fury could jab his head off and start landing some big stuff later on in the fight, but I don't know which version is going to turn up.

 

Fury all day long.

Jab, jab, jab, jab, jab...

"This wasn't supposed to happen! "

I can't wait for the meltdowns on here, it's going to be biblical.

"I don't like Fury therefore he'll lose"...

 

As much as I’d love Usyk to win, I think Fury’s sheer size and physical mauling and grappling will be too much. I can see Fury taking the fight on the cards in a really messy affair. I really hope I’m wrong, but the fight is probably 18 months too late for Usyk.

 

With all this PPV Loot on the table with plenty to go around, there is no reason that the UK promoters could not work together for an all Heavyweight undercard for this era to match any card seen in boxing.

Headline Fight:
1. Tyson Fury v Oleksandr Usyk

Undercard:
2. Joe Joyce v Anthony Joshua
3. Martin Bakole v Daniel Dubois
4. Dillian Whyte v Derek Chisora 3
5. Hughie Fury v Fabio Wardley
6. Alen Babic v Billy Joe Saunders
7. Johnny Fisher v Frazer Clarke

Would do wonders for the profile of boxing and the boxers on the card.

I know it won't happen because the 2nd named fighters in fights 2 and 3 are chickens and both fighters in fight 3 are puddings demanding far too much retirement loot.

 

That just doesn’t make any sense. Why would they pay to put Joyce v Joshua on an undercard when it’s a huge PPV fight in itself? The bigger the main event the less reason there is for an undercard. Not one person in the world would be making a decision on whether to buy this fight based on the quality of the undercard.

 

Just added another fight.

The best card ever at stake with plenty of loot on the table. Give the UFC boys some competition.

Not as though Chicken Joshua is short of a few hundred million

 

Fury will get himself into great condition for this fight and then it becomes solely about whether he is good enough to take on the 'big' man side of the saying about 'good big men' and 'good small men' for me.

I think he does.

 

His prep for this has been appaling.

Tyson is fighting one armed punchers, boxers with no iq and plodders. I can see Usyk getting caught early as he always does, and i can see him drowning Tyson with his output.

 

He hasn't started the preparation for Usyk yet to be fair. It's a good 4-5 months away and you can't judge what he feels he could get away with in camps for fights against Whyte and Chisora for what he'll do against Usyk.

 

I think Fury is just too big for Usyk as he can box also. Usyk can be easy to hit at times also and Tyson, while not a knockout artist, is very heavy handed.
I'm a fan of both fighters skills so won't be disappointed whoever wins, as long as it's a good fight.

Fury on Points for me.

 

Whyte, Wilder and Del are poor opponents to then face Usyk.

 

Usyk's last 4 opponents?

Tony Bellew, Chazz Witherspoon, Chisora and Antony Joshua.

Hardly the perfect preparation to face the best Heavyweight in the World who's 6 inches taller than you...

 

Arum said this could be announced next week.