Promoter Frank Warren says the trilogy match between Tyson Fury and unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has been contracted, as long as ‘The Gypsy King’ prevails in the rematch in Saudi Arabia on Saturday night.
Dare the Mega battle
If Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) wins on Saturday, fans would prefer to see him move on and face Anthony Joshua or Daniel Dubois rather than go straight into a trilogy fight with Usyk. The third fight between them could always happen later after Tyson fights the 35-year-old AJ, who looks very shaky at this point after being blown out by Dubois in five rounds.
Given Joshua’s vulnerable state, it would be a mistake for Fury to take the trilogy bout with Usyk. If Joshua gets beaten again while Tyson is booked to fight Oleksandr again, it will take a lot of interest from the boxing public to see a Fury-Joshua match.
All Time Great?
Warren argues that if Fury, 36, defeats Usyk, it will make him one of the all-time greats. It’s a bit of a stretch because the Gypsy King won’t have the wins over high-quality fighters who were still young when he beat them.
Fury’s best career win
- Wladimir Klitschko
- Deontay Wilder
- Dillian Whyte
- Derek Chisora
You’d be stretching it to think that Fury’s best wins make him one of boxing’s all-time greats. Even if he beats the 37-year-old Usyk on Saturday night, his resume will still be too thin to place him among the boxing greats, and certainly at #1. It will be a joke, and no one will take it seriously.
At this point Fury’s #1 career win is a narrow 12 round victory over 39 year old Wladimir Klitschko. If you followed the Wlad’s fighter, you would realize that he is a faded warrior by the time the then 27-year-old Fury fought him.
Try to imagine where Fury will be physically when he’s 39 and fighting one of the top guys. You wouldn’t be able to argue that he was at his best, and you’d have to discredit any win for a younger fighter over the old shell of Fury. This is why it is impossible to list Fury among the all-time greats in boxing, as his resume is too poor.
Trilogy contract
“It does because it’s contracted, and whatever happens, that will be the case if Tyson wins, provided no one quits,” said promoter Frank Warren. Boxing News about a trilogy match between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk being contracted.
“A lot of journalists after the last fight … the majority of them said that Usyk is now the best heavyweight of his generation that he deserves to be up there with the Alis, the Lewises and the Marcianos and all these guys going back in time.
If Tyson beats him (Usyk), then it becomes Tyson, and I think Tyson is there anyway. The fact that he is a two-time world champion (title wins over Wladimir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder), the fact that he won his titles on the road in the other guy’s countries or adopted country (Germany for fight against the 39-year-old Wladimir ) . He (Fury) is there. He is a great, great fighter. He came through this one, he’s an even better fighter.
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