Usyk accepts 70/30 deal, the fight is on!

You're not factoring in home advantage here. If it's very close, the home fighter often gets the decision.

That is the main reason why I wouldn't have been too disappointed had this fight taken place outside of the UK.

 

That's fair, but for balance (as I kind of know some don't agree with the 1M figure) I actually included Warren's claim of 500,000 for Fury v Chisora (which is also very questionable). Personally, I suspect 300,000 which Hearn spoke of is far more likely given how unhappy people were about that fight even being made.

So it's swings and roundabout really.

Regarding non-UK opponents, as we are basically comparing Usyk with Fury, in the context of the UK, I'm not sure going back to look at his non-UK opponent numbers as a comparative measure would tell us much. Because let's face it when Fury fought Schwartz and Wallin he too did terrible numbers.

 

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Fury looks in decent shape. That can't please people here, he's meant to be a ballooned drunken mess by now. Surely there's still time for him to have another breakdown, few pints and lines, a fat kebab and then back out.
Cross your fingers and toes Usyk fans.

 

Who says the pic is recent though?

 

It doesnt have to be for me, I see Fury regularly running down our prom. I have no worries whatsoever.

 

Lets hope so.

 

Its go time.. biggest fight in boxing, not been hyped for a fight like this in years.. let's just hope no injuries postpone it, the decision is fair & may the best man win. Pulling for & picking Fury.. tho he's made it difficult for ppl to do so lately .. but I wouldn't be gutted if the Ukrainian wins, fan of both.

 

On the southpaw switching point, it's not just that Fury can switch hit; he also has a better/more intimate knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the southpaw stance than any other non-southpaw heavyweight.

 

I don't think the Bellew performance was bad at all; Usyk was making Bellew work very hard for minimal success (how many significant shots did Bellew land?) before sparking him in 8. Usyk never stopped any of his bigger cruiser names faster or more brutally than he did Bellew.

Perhaps Usyk wasn't fully mentally prepared for such a hard fight with Chisora, who was very well prepared (2/3 of his previous opponents were southpaws) and underestimated (as usual) going in. Perhaps Usyk also had a sub-par training camp or whatever. And the scores were closer than they should have been. But I don't believe that Usyk was playing possum, or that the fight was a total aberration.

 

I thought Usyk was excellent against Bellew.

A lot of revisionists have tried to make out that Bellew was winning but it you watch it back, Usyk was fighting in second gear for the first few rounds, then he stepped it up and dismantled Bellew in 3 rounds.

 

This is getting tiring...

 

Agree its getting tiring but they are right. If Usyk has been in a full camp already, then Fury moving the date out will play havoc with Usyk's conditioning. Overtraining is a thing and growing mentally stale is a thing. Meanwhile Fury has had everything his way up till now. If he wants the money, then he needs to stick to the freaking date. I'm guessing he will "pull a muscle" in camp and try to move or even cancel the fight. Same as he did with Wlad.

 

There is Fury's excuse to get out of this fight and blame it on Usyk.