Usyk will expose his fury: is the blame game imminent?

Tyson Fury’s career as a major player will be on the line tonight in his rematch with three-belt heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh.

Usyk may put former WBC heavyweight champion Fury, 36, out to pasture as he appears physically finished with his appearance. Tyson’s behavior has been strange, indicating that his loss to Uyk last May took away the best he had left.

The era burst

Fury looks exhausted, and it’s not just from the hard training. That fight and the mental torture he has had to face over the last seven months have led him to a age burst. That’s where a person ages quickly. Fury has clearly suffered one since his loss to Usyk.

Rapid aging typically occurs between the ages of 40 and 60, but can begin earlier if a person experiences a high degree of stress.

Fury’s career survival

The ‘Gypsy King’ needs tonight’s win to not only position himself for a trilogy with Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) if that’s the direction he chooses to take, but also to create interest in a mega-money all-Clash British against Anthony Joshua.

The worst possible scenario would be for Fury to be beaten by Usyk tonight, knocked out, and then sneak into the fight against Joshua, who is coming off a knockout loss. Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) looked terrible, losing his last fight and needing to be saved by the referee in the ninth round.

What I want to know is who Fury will blame after Usyk kills him tonight. An obvious scapegoat would be his coach, SugarHill Butlerwho planned his victory over Deontay Wilder with his attacking game plan. Regardless, SugarHill should have been abandoned after Fury’s controversial victory over Francis Ngannou last year. Tyson actually lost that fight but was saved by the judges in Riyadh.

What was obvious was that SugarHill’s attack-based game plan didn’t work and he had no other ideas. He was a one trick pony. I don’t know why Fury kept him after that instead of leaving him on the spot.

Fury has looked poor in his fights since his only major victory in the last nine years, and it’s obvious that SugarHill has no ideas to improve him other than using the fatigue strategy he devised for the clash with Deontay. Fury has repeatedly used that strategy in his fights against journeymen Dillian Whyte, Dereck Chisora ​​and 0-0 rookie Francis Ngannou.

If things don’t work out tonight for Fury, he can give the royal boot to SugarHill and Andy Lee. Then he can tell the media that he is leaving with a completely new team. The fans would accept it and Fury’s loss to Usyk tonight would be partially cleansed.

Matching Magic

The reality is that Fury is not that good and never was. He was always a fighter who surpassed the matchup. living off his victory Wladimir Klitschko, a man over 39 years old. Fury got a LOT of advantage by punching an old gunslinger, who had already been knocked out in two rounds by Corrie Sanders before fighting him.

Aside from that win, Fury beat no one and was always a step above the British level, but his promoters matched him carefully to avoid the guys who would have exposed him to the light of day as an average.