Within the opinion of fairly a couple of individuals who know their boxing, former WBC heavyweight champ Tyson Fury has to avenge his loss to Oleksandr Usyk if he’s to go down as a real heavyweight nice.
The rematch, set as we all know for precisely six months tomorrow, December 21, actually is a must-win combat for Fury, for his ego, for his rating within the historical past books, for Fury’s means to completely maintain his head up as excessive as he did earlier than that Could 18 evening in Saudi Arabia.
Fury is alleged to be again within the gymnasium, but we’re nonetheless so far-off from the combat that something may occur between now and December. Some individuals – Johnny Nelson for one – are not sure the rematch will occur, that Fury, so harm, so pained inside because of the loss, that brutal ninth spherical, specifically, serving to hang-out him, is not going to undergo with it. That’s mere opinion, after all. As is what Eddie Hearn stated at present as regards to Fury’s general greatness ought to he by no means defeat Usyk.
Talking with Seconds Out, Hearn had the next to say about Fury and the place and the way he will probably be remembered sans a victory over the distinctive Ukrainian southpaw:
“If he doesn’t beat Usyk, he is not going to go down as a generational nice,” Hearn stated of Fury. “He’ll go down as a fantastic heavyweight, who was wonderful for the game – British world heavyweight champion, nice persona, however not a real nice for my part. As a result of he simply hasn’t crushed the opposition. He beat Deontay Wilder. The place’s the opposite elite guys that he beat? And that’s why they want one another…..AJ wants Fury, AJ must beat Usyk. Usyk’s accomplished it now, Usyk’s a generational nice – undisputed cruiserweight champion, undisputed heavyweight champion, he beat AJ twice, I imply, if he beats [Fury] once more, he’s dwelling and dry, except AJ can come again and get him. I really feel AJ’s resume is implausible, however he nonetheless wants a victory over Usyk or Fury to grow to be; I’m speaking a generational nice, I’m speaking, Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman. And he’ll need that, and Fury will probably be proper up for this [rematch with Usyk]. I’ve heard Johnny Nelson saying, ‘I don’t suppose the combat will occur.’ F*****g hell! It’s mad. social media currently, and perhaps I’ve simply gone gentle, however there’s so many haters on the market.”
Attention-grabbing stuff from Hearn, and never an excessive amount of you may disagree with. Fury does want a win over Usyk even to have an opportunity of happening with the greats like Ali and Foreman. AJ nonetheless wants an enormous win over a Fury or a Usyk to do the identical. And Usyk is just about “dwelling and dry” going into boxing historical past as the best fighter of his period at two weights.
Can anyone beat Usyk, be it Fury in a sequel, AJ in a 3rd combat, or anyone else on the planet you care to say?
