Fury’s Delusion: Why He’s Doomed to Fail Against Usyk Again

Tyson Fury says he will be more focused and will not “clown” in his rematch with unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in 22 days on December 21 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He sounds like he’s in complete denial about how outmatched he was by Usyk, and it’s going to be worse for him in their rematch.

The ‘Gypsy King’ (34-1-1, 24 KOs) and his fans believe the reason for his previous 12-round split decision loss to Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) in their first fight on May 18 was due to a loss of focus and a bit of nauseousness.

Like many aging fighters unwilling to face the truth about their failures, Fury, 36, lost because he was never that good. Usyk exposed just how limited Fury was by attacking him to the body, backing him up against the ropes and stunning him with a big left hand in the ninth. That should have been the end.

Was Usyk hurt?

“I have a feeling Fury is going to do it in the second fight. I really think Fury is not wasting this time, and he has the bit between his teeth,” said Gareth A. Davies. talkSport Boxingpredicting a win for Tyson Fury over Oleksandr Usyk on December 21st.

“I think it’s going to be very close again, and he (Fury) might hold on again to win on points. I just think he’s going to leave it all there. He is a special guy. He’s a very, very special guy, and it was a very close, brutal fight the first time.

“The takeaway in the sit-down the other day was that Usyk admitted that he wasn’t hurt in that fight, and he was hurt in that fight. He was so stoic. He gives you nothing. He (Fury) was beating him,” Gareth says of his belief that Fury will beat Usyk in the first six rounds.

Gareth is a perfect example of a typical Fury fan who feels his previous loss was just a case of him not coming forward to push Usyk. If you watch the first fight carefully with both eyes open, you can see that Usyk landed hard shots at Fury’s breadbasket in the first two rounds.

He didn’t like those shots and retreated to the ropes to avoid being hit with those shots. This was where the battle was lost for Fury. Unable to handle the body shots from Usysk, he made a hasty retreat to the ropes to use them to support his wounded midsection.

The first half of the Fury-Usyk fight was NOT close, and Usyk didn’t get hurt. He dominated five of the first six rounds and had Fury on his feet in round nine.

“Many of the doubters and journalists said Usyk was up there with the legends of the sport. The Muhammad Alis, the Fraziers, the Foremans, the Joe Louis, and certainly the greatest of his generation,” said promoter Frank Warren. Sky Sports Boxing.

“I’m glad they said that because when Tyson beats him, nobody can debate the fact that he beat the best of his generation, which will make him the best of his generation,” Warren said of Fury.

Doubters demand retirement

If Fury loses the rematch with Usyk on December 21, there are going to be many boxing fans who are going to call for him to retire. It would basically be the 36-year-old Gypsy King’s third in a row if you count his controversial 10-round split decision win over Francis Ngannou last year on October 28, 2023 as a loss.

Fury looked like the loser in that fight but got a decision. The whole bag of tricks that Tyson used to defeat Deontay Wilder twice, the lean, grapple and roughhouse tactics, failed him against Ngannou. They didn’t work on Usyk either.