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 struggle for Fury, for his ego, for his rating within the historical past books, for Fury’s potential to totally maintain his head up as excessive as he did earlier than that Might 18 night time in Saudi Arabia.
Fury is alleged to be again within the gymnasium, but we’re nonetheless so far-off from the struggle that something might 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 as a result of loss, that brutal ninth spherical, particularly, serving to hang-out him, won’t undergo with it. That’s mere opinion, in fact. As is what Eddie Hearn mentioned as we speak as regards to Fury’s total 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 might be remembered sans a victory over the distinctive Ukrainian southpaw:
“If he doesn’t beat Usyk, he won’t go down as a generational nice,” Hearn mentioned of Fury. “He’ll go down as an ideal 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 finished 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 residence and dry, until AJ can come again and get him. I really feel AJ’s resume is unbelievable, however he nonetheless wants a victory over Usyk or Fury to change into; I’m speaking a generational nice, I’m speaking, Lennox Lewis, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman. And he’ll need that, and Fury might be proper up for this [rematch with Usyk]. I’ve heard Johnny Nelson saying, ‘I don’t assume the struggle will occur.’ F*****g hell! It’s mad. Taking a look at social media these days, and possibly I’ve simply gone comfortable, however there’s so many haters on the market.”
Fascinating 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 taking place 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 “residence 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 struggle, or anyone else on the planet you care to say?
