Tyson Fury is playing down the injury he suffered from a big blow 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 no longer take a punch, dismisses the idea that he has a glass chin, saying he could have been hit with the same punch by Usyk. a “a million times.”” and that would do nothing. We know otherwise.
The price of war
Deontay Wilder may have permanently destroyed Fury from his three fights with him, dropping him four times and robbing him of two knockout wins. The gypsy king emerged from those three battles as a broken soldier, dragging himself from the battlefield, physically damaged that no doctor could repair. When Fury gets hit hard, he can’t take it anymore.
It’s so obvious now. He was smart to pick Derek Chisora and Dillian Whyte as his opponents after his third fight with Wilder in 2021. Those two heavyweights at the domestic level lacked the talent to show that their punch resistance has deteriorated. When he fought Usik, he was exposed.
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 a coup de grace that would have sent him flying at the speed of light into the HD1 galaxy. That would be it for Fury. Usik will get the job done this time and won’t let the referee stop what should have been done the first time.
“He could have hit me with that punch a million times, and it might not have had an effect, but he hit me, and it had an effect, and that was great for him,” Tyson Fury said. DAZNdownplaying being injured by Oleksandar Usyk last May.
“It was perfect,” Usyk said of the blow that hurt Fury.
A changed fighter
Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) will test Fury’s chin again in 16 days on Dec. 21 in a rematch at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh. Many believe that unified heavyweight champion Usyk will go after Fury from the opening bell, full of left hands, looking to knock him out.
Fury looked like a physical wreck during his Face Off with Usyk on DAZN. I was trying to figure out how this is the same fighter who beat Wladimir Klitschko nine years earlier in 2015 in Germany. Fury looks like he’s been put in some sort of aging chamber that sped up his life. It does NOT look good.
