Tyson Fury plays down the fact he was hurt by a big shot from Oleksandr Usyk in the ninth round of their previous fight on May 18.
Former WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs), who many believe can’t take a punch anymore, rejects the idea that he has a glass chin and says he could have been hit with the same punch from Usyk have a “million times” and it would have done nothing. We know otherwise.
The price of war
Deontay Wilder may have permanently ruined Fury from his three fights with him, dropping him four times and robbing him of two knockout victories. The Gyspy King came out of those three battles like a broken soldier, dragging himself from the battlefield, physically damaged beyond what any doctor could fix. When Fury is tapped on the chin, his bones turn to jelly, and he’s all over the place.
As we all saw last May. The referee saved Fury from being knocked out in the ninth round when he pushed Usyk out of the way just as he was about to finish Tyson with the coup de grace that sent him flying to the HD1 galaxy would have rushed. That would have been it for Fury. Usyk is going to finish the job this time and not let the referee prevent what should have been done the first time.
“He could have punched me a million times, and it might not have had any effect, but he punched me, and it had an effect, and that was great for him,” Tyson Fury said. DAZNmakes light of Oleksandr Usyk who hurt him last May.
“It was perfect,” Usyk said of the punch he used to hurt Fury.
A Changed Warrior
Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) will test Fury’s chin again in 16 days on December 21 in their rematch at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. Many believe that unified heavyweight champion Usyk will go after Fury from the opening bell, charging in with left hands and looking to knock him out.
Fury looked like a physical wreck during his Face Off with Usyk on DAZN. I tried to understand how this was the same fighter who beat Wladimir Klitschko nine years earlier in 2015 in Germany. Fury looks like he’s been placed in some sort of aging chamber that has sped up his life. He does NOT look good.
