Promoter Frank Warren says a trilogy match between Tyson Fury and unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk has been agreed upon, as long as ‘The Gypsy King’ wins Saturday night’s rematch in Saudi Arabia.
Risking the Mega-Fight
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 instead of going straight to a trilogy fight with Usyk. A third head-to-head fight could always happen later after Tyson takes on the 35-year-old AJ, who looks very shaky at the moment after being knocked out by Dubois in five rounds.
Given the vulnerable state of Joshua’s career, it would be a mistake for Fury to take a trilogy match with Usyk. If Joshua is defeated again while Tyson is booked to fight Alexander again, it will take a lot of interest from the boxing public to see a Fury-Joshua matchup.
All Time Great?
Warren claims that if Fury (36) beats Ushik, he will become one of the greats of all time. That’s a bit of a stretch as Gispie King would still lack career wins over high quality fighters who were still young when he beat them.
Fury’s career best wins
- Wladimir Klitschko
- Deontay Wilder
- Dillian White
- Derek Chisora
You’d have to be extremely naive to think that Fury’s career-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 would still be too thin to put him among the boxing greats, and definitely #1. It would be a joke, and no one would take it seriously.
At this point, Fury’s No. 1 career win is a narrow 12-round victory over 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko. If you followed Vlad’s fighter, you would recognize that he is faded fighter by the time the then 27-year-old Fury fought him.
Try to imagine where Fury will be physically when he’s 39 years old and fighting one of the best guys around. You won’t be able to argue that he was at his best, and you’d have to discredit any victory by the younger fighter over the old shell of Fury. That’s why it’s impossible to rank Fury among the all-time greats in boxing, because his resume is too weak.
Contract trilogies
“That’s because it’s contracted, and whatever happens, that would be the case if Tyson wins, provided no one withdraws,” promoter Frank Warren said. Boxing News about the contract for a trilogy match between Tyson Fury and Alexander Usyk.
“A lot of reporters after the last fight … most of them said that Usyk is the best heavyweight of his generation now that he deserves to be up there with Ali, Lewis, Marciano and all these guys coming back. time.
If Tyson beats him (Usika), then it becomes Tyson, and I think Tyson is here anyway. The fact that he is a two-time world champion (the title wins Wladimir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder), the fact that he won his titles on the road in another guy’s country or his adopted country (Germany for the fight against the 39-year-old Wladimir). He (Furi) is there. He is a great, great fighter. He’s been through this, he’s an even better fighter.
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