Tyson Fury is not being given much of a chance by fans on social media for his rematch with WBA, WBC and WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December 21.
Fans Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) will finish the job he started in the ninth round of the first fight with Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) on May 18 when he has the Gypsy king on the verge of a knockout.
If no referee intervenes to save Fury by awarding him eight points to save the fight, Usyk may take him out of the rematch on December 21. Usyk will be planning to unleash an avalanche of punches on Fury in the rematch and fill the aging fighter with shots.
Fury’s main concern is that he is too slow and too big to fight Usyk if he lands 20+ consecutive heads like he did in the ninth round of their first fight.
In fact, Fury is 0-2 in his last two fights and is headed for his third straight loss against Usyk. That’s not fair, considering the Honorable Turki Alalshikh has already said that Fury and Anthony Joshua will fight regardless of future fights. Francis Ngannou should have won against Fury last October in Riyadh but the judges treated him badly.
We’ve already seen Joshua, 34, who looked out of place, get knocked out of the water by IBF champion Daniel Dubois on September 21. It’s Fury’s turn to be destroyed in his rematch with Usyk. The UK boxing community probably won’t mind Fury getting beaten by Usyk again, but the rest of the world will.
They’re not going to want to watch a bunch of rich, washed-up fighters return to the PPV fight after a blowout loss. If Joshua takes a rematch with Dubois, it is possible that he will be eliminated again, making it a losing streak for him and Fury when they meet in 2025.
What Happens to Anger?
I have to agree with the fans. Fury looks to be headed for trouble in the second battle, and there’s not much he can do except get the Fountain of Youth before December 21.
Fury seems to have aged terribly over the past few years and is no longer the fighter he used to be. It is not clear whether he has been burning the candle at both ends between the wars, living on rich food and expensive drinks.
What Fury was doing when it was not fought did something to him. Living in a great wealth like Fury, why he wants to eat well is understandable. Who wouldn’t if they got Fury’s money? If I were as rich as Fury, I’d be high on the pig, too, and just as washed up as he is at his age.
Fury needs to bring back the version of himself that defeated Deontay Wilder in their second fight in 2020 because he was the better fighter in that fight. Even the type of Fury that bested 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko in 2015 was not at the level he was in when he beat Wilder in a rematch in 2020.
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