The rematch between Tyson Fury and unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will take place on December 21 at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, 33 days from now.
Many fans see this as an easy case of Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) making a job of 36-year-old former WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-1-1 24 KOs) for the second time. . He will bring wrath out of his sorrow.
Wealth Has Wasted Anger
The great wealth that Fury has amassed over the past four years has softened him, taking away the hunger and ambition that made him the warrior he was.
At full price $140 millionFury doesn’t look like he’s mentally engaged in his work and is just busy at the moment looking for money. It would have to be next to impossible to stay motivated when you’re sitting on money like Fury has, and the money just keeps coming.
You can often see him on vacation in a beautiful place, enjoying the life of a rich millionaire. He doesn’t live the life of an advanced soldier, he drinks dirty water from the canteen and eats anything he can scratch.
Is This The End Of Anger?
For Fury to succeed in the rematch, he must come forward, apply pressure, and not face the smaller man again like he did in their first fight on May 18. Fury stopped the fight by fighting on the ropes and did not attack Usyk as he did in his two wins over Deontay Wilder.
A second loss to Usyk would spell the end of Fury’s career as a heavyweight fighter. Of course, he will still be able to get a big day or two to lead against Anthony Joshua in Riyadh, as the Honorable Turki Alalshikh has said that those fights will still happen regardless of the outcome of their next fights.
Daniel Dubois has already knocked out Joshua, and he looks like a gunner. Again, there’s still plenty of dough Fury will make for Joshua, no matter how hard Usyk whips him this time.
Outside of the UK, Fury is considered a fraud, a mechanical striker who has been guided by his promoters to steer him through difficult waters and build an unbeaten record until he was upset by Usyk last May. If you look at Fury’s resume, which is full of strong fights and fights, it is clear that the fans were deceived.
They thought he was better than he really was, but he was never the fighter they were led to believe. Don’t get me wrong. Fury was still a good British-class heavyweight, but not a true world-class guy who you could throw in the ring with a heavyweight like Martin Bakole and expect him to stay upright for long.
Also in that fight, the referee almost saved Fury from losing and scoring the judges’ goals. That should have been a clear 9-3 victory for Usyk, but the judges got a 12-round split decision.
Scores
114-113 – Usyk
114-113 – Anger
115-112 – Usyk
Some feel that Fury didn’t like the sharp, accurate shots that Usyk was hitting him with when he was out in the open, then he chose to fight on the ropes, trying to make it difficult for him to hit his head.
Fury was leaning back against the ropes, making his head as far as possible for Usyk to connect. That didn’t work, though, because Usyk went full Fury, punching down his breadbasket and then catching him with some incredibly powerful shots to the head.
The King of Gypsies doesn’t seem to take his job as seriously as he used to, as we’ve seen in his last few fights against Usyk and Francis Ngannou. The two should have lost to Fury.
Fury vs. Usyk 1 Punch Stats
Oleksandr Usyk – 170 of 407 shots with a 42% connection rate.
Tyson Fury – 57 of 496 shots with a 32% connection rate.
6️⃣ months on from Fury vs. Usyk 🤯
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