Tyson Fury’s supervisor, Spencer Brown, revealed that Fury should come out victorious in his rematch with WBA/WBC/WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December twenty first for a struggle in opposition to Anthony Joshua to occur subsequent yr.
If Spencer Brown is right about Fury needing to win his rematch to get the Joshua cash struggle, it doesn’t seem like it’s going to occur between them as a result of he has little likelihood of beating Usyk. The enhancements Usyk will make in his sport might be to make sure that it doesn’t go to the scorecards subsequent time.
It was believed that His Excellency Turki Alalshikh would nonetheless green-light the Fury vs. Joshua mega-money struggle between the 2 heavyweights, even when one or each misplaced their subsequent fights. However in accordance with Brown, Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) should win his rematch in opposition to Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) on December twenty first for the AJ match to occur.
It’s good that Turki has chosen to vary his tune about Fury and Joshua not needing to win their subsequent fights for them to satisfy subsequent yr. There’s been a variety of criticism concerning the two fighters nonetheless preventing in early 2025, whatever the outcomes of their subsequent fights.
Joshua (28-3, 25 KOs) is difficult IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois on September twenty first at Wembley Stadium in London, and there’s a good chance he’ll lose that struggle in opposition to the youthful fighter.
“There’s no collision course if he [Fury] doesn’t win the following struggle [against Usyk]. So it’s crucial he beats Usyk,” Spencer Brown informed Sky Sports activities about it being vital that Tyson Fury defeats WBA, WBC, and WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk of their rematch on December twenty first.
That’s not good for Fury, 35, as a result of he’s not prone to win, and he would possibly get knocked out by Usyk this time. Most imagine Fury was knocked out within the true sense in his earlier struggle in opposition to Usyk on Might 18th however was saved by the referee, who gave a standing eight depend within the ninth spherical.
That was a historic transfer by the referee, altering Fury’s end result from a knockout loss to a choice loss. Fury would have been knocked out with a unique referee on obligation that evening, however not this one. It’s a great factor Fury didn’t win the struggle by a choice; there would have been an enormous cry from followers over the knockout that was taken away from Usyk.
“With the closeness of the struggle final time, it may have gone both means,” mentioned Brown of the Fury vs. Usyk struggle final Might in Riyadh.
Should you think about that Fury ought to have been knocked out within the ninth spherical, the struggle wasn’t shut. Should you ignore that Usyk was prevented from knocking out Fury within the ninth because of the referee stopping the motion to offer Tyson a standing depend, yeah, it was shut, however probably not.
That standing eight counts saved Fury, and it stained the result of the struggle, making it seem like the favored fighter Tyson had been saved.
Followers on social media ponder whether the referee would have made the identical transfer if Fury had been only a no-name fighter with 15 losses on his file, introduced in as an opponent. Would the referee have stepped in, saved a journeyman-level fighter, and given him a standing eight depend?
“There’ll be modifications, not in administration or his crew; there’ll be another stuff that he’ll be training-wise,” Brown mentioned about Fury’s crew.
That doesn’t sound good for Fury if he’s not altering his crew as a result of he clearly must. He ought to ditch his trainers Sugarhill Steward and Andy Lee and substitute them with the best high quality coaches cash should purchase, with Fury’s estimated internet value of $140 million.
With the Fury’s large J. Paul Getty-esque fortune, he can afford the best high quality coach in the marketplace. He ought to substitute SugarHill and Lee to offer himself the perfect likelihood of success within the rematch with Usyk, particularly if the Joshua struggle is dependent upon him successful the rematch.
“Tyson Fury might be again. He’ll be firing, and we’ll see a brand new, higher, improved Tyson Fury,” mentioned Brown. “At his age, I don’t understand how a lot you possibly can enhance, however there was very, little or no within the struggle between them.”
From Fury’s final 5 fights, we’ve seen that he’s on the steep decline in his profession, and he’s not going to “higher” or “improved” as Spencer Brown says. He’s going to be outdated and simply as light as he has in all of his fights since 2021. He ought to have misplaced the primary and third fights with Deontay Wilder, however the referees who had been working these matches saved him.
The depend that was given to Fury when he was unconscious within the twelfth spherical in opposition to Wilder, after which the sluggish depend within the third struggle after he’d been dropped onerous. That’s an extra two losses that ought to be on Fury’s file. He’s been fading since 2018, and maybe he was all the time overrated.
