Why is Fury scared to fight Usyk?

He's lazy to train hard... he's lazy but when he cheers up he's going to send him into retirement

 

You need to be fit to go 12 rounds with Usyk...

Fury won't knock him out, so he'll have to be fit and he very rarely is.

Even at the top of his game this is probably a 50/50 for Fury.

I just don't think Fury is hungry enough to train as hard as he'd need to... So it'll probably never happen.

Hopefully I'm wrong.

 

Because Usyk is like the Frankenstein combination of Cunningham and Wallin, Fury's two toughest fights ever - only ten times the fighter those two put together. He is quite literally the worst possible stylistic matchup for Fury.

Imagine what Usyk would do to him if this is what Fury felt about Cunningham: "The reason being he was very slippery, I couldn’t pin him down. He was light on his feet, weighing 208lbs, he was a cruiserweight champion and he stepped up into heavyweights. He was a slick, talented boxer and I tried to walk him down, use my size and power, but he was just outboxing me. What I’m good at – boxing, moving, slipping and sliding – I couldn’t do against Steve Cunningham because he was quicker than me. It was like he was a better boxer all round than me, and he’d knocked me over even though he was a light puncher. (...) I’m not gonna make any excuses, Steve Cunningham was a better boxer than me.”

And that was Cunningham who is levels and levels below Usyk, against a literally decade younger, fitter, quicker, 30 lbs lighter, more mobile and agile version of Fury. And add to that the fact that Usyk is a southpaw and is busier, more skilled, hits harder, and moves faster than Cunningham. Of course Fury is scared s***less at the thought of facing Usyk.

 

They're letting it marinate.

 

He is obviously afraid of losing. I favor Fury to win if it does happen but like others have already said Fury knows he will have to train hard and be laser focused to win like he was for Klitchko and Wilder 2. For Wilder 3, Whyte and Chisora he just knew he was levels above those guys and was able to beat them at about 70% just based on experience and natural ability. Usyk is the only man left he really needs to be at 100% for.

 

at his core, he's a partier. he feels like he's done the hard work and now it's time to lay back and suck up the gravy. also, he's aware that the sum of his attributes have been overrated. maybe a great deal. why risk it?

 

I'm just glad Ngannou is going to get paid that Gypsy money.

 

Because he'll lose.

Duh.

 

Even if he train as hard as every, he can never have the output and keep on the pace of Usyk.
As it was shown in Dubois fight. Usyk slowly going through the gears, and his opponents doesn't have answer after he start going up and up, and up, and he always have another level.
While Fury have a good cardio, he always needs to tied/hold/clinch to safe his breath. And he won't be able to do that against Usyk.
It's his only hope to be as dirty as possible, and he knows it. But with the right ref, this won't be allowed.

He is most probably trying to age Usyk out, as Usyk style is very prone to age, unlike Fury's one.

 

Right hand, left hook to the body, keep your guard up, and unlike AJ and DuBois, Fury knows how to use his size and reach advantages.


For all of his flaws, AJ did better in the second fight against Usyk, just by attacking his body more than the first time.

 

Fury himself doesnt believe it. He is scared shitless of Usyk. Like others said due to the Cunningham fight and cause Fury knows boxing.
His insecure ego cant handle getting schooled and humiliated and not be praised as this h2h beast.

 

Fury isn’t scared. But he doesn’t respect Usyk.