Fury vs. Usyk trilogy: hired if Tyson wins rematch

Promoter Frank Warren says the trilogy bout between Tyson Fury and unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is booked, as long as ‘The Gypsy King’ emerges victorious in 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 rather than going straight into a trilogy fight with Usyk. The third fight between them can always happen later, after Tyson fights AJ, 35, who at this point looks very shaky after being beaten in five rounds by Dubois.

Given Joshua’s vulnerable condition, it would be a mistake for Fury to accept the trilogy with Usyk. If Joshua is defeated again while Tyson is booked to fight Oleksandr again, it will take a lot of interest from the boxing public to see a Fury-Joshua fight.

All great times?

Warren maintains that if Fury, 36, defeats Usyk, it will make him one of the all-time greats. That’s a bit of a stretch because the Gypsy King would still be missing wins over high-quality wrestlers who were still young when he beat them.

Fury’s best career wins

• Wladimir Klitschko
• Deontay Wilder
• Dillian Whyte
• Derek Chisora

It would be a stretch to think that Fury’s best victories make him one of the boxing greats of all time. Even if he defeats Usyk, 37, on Saturday night, his resume would still be too thin to place him among boxing’s greats, and definitely in the number one spot. It would be a joke and no one would take it seriously.

At this point, Fury’s career number one victory is a narrow 12-round victory over 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko. If you followed Wlad’s fighter, you would recognize that he was a faded fighter at the time Fury, then 27 years old, fought him.

Try to imagine where Fury will be physically when he’s 39 years old and fighting one of the best. You won’t be able to argue that he was in his prime and you’d have to discredit any victory by a younger fighter over Fury’s old shell. That is why it is impossible to include Fury among the boxing greats of all time, since his resume is too weak.

Trilogy contract

“He’s doing it because he’s hired, and no matter what happens, that will be the case if Tyson wins, as long as no one retires,” promoter Frank Warren told boxing news about booking a trilogy fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.

“A lot of journalists after the last fight… most of them said that Usyk is now the best heavyweight of his generation and that he deserves to be up there with the Alis and the Lewises and the Marcianos and all these guys coming back. time.

If Tyson beats him (Usyk), then he becomes Tyson, and I think Tyson is there anyway. The fact that he is a two-time world champion (the title was won from Wladimir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder), the fact that he has won his titles as a visitor in each other’s country or in his adopted country (Germany to fight against Wladimir, 39 years old). ). He’s (Fury) there. He is a great, great fighter. If he overcomes this, he is an even better fighter.

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