By: Sean Crose
WBC heavyweight titlist Tyson Fury sat throughout from WBA, WBO, and IBF heavyweight titlist Oleksandr Usyk for an interview with Steve Bunce within the leadup to their February undisputed title match in Saudi Arabia. Fury Looked lean and comparatively relaxed whereas Usyk appeared fairly centered. “For me he was never in the equation,” Fury mentioned of Usyk. “It was always me, Wilder, and Joshua. And then obviously he beat Joshua…so here we are.” Perhaps surprisingly, Fury didn’t interact in a verbal assault in an effort to get inside
Usyk’s head (although Usyk’s lack of English might have had one thing to do with that).
“I think we both are decent men,” Fury mentioned. “We’re both family men, we’ve both got children, we’re both God fearing men.” Still, it’s exhausting to maintain Fury from being Fury. “He’s Alexander,” he mentioned of Usyk, “but I am the Great.” The towering Brit additionally threw a curveball when he mentioned his preparations (or lack thereof) for his February 17th combat with Usyk. “I’m not even in the gym,” he mentioned. “I don’t train this far out, c’mon. Who do you think you’re talking to, a professional athlete? I train four or five weeks for this fight…how much training does a man need? Three for sparring, one week resting.”
While Fury largely did the speaking, Usyk – whose native language is Ukrainian, had a couple of selection feedback of his personal. When Fury claimed that “a man who wears an earring in his ear can never beat Tyson Fury,” Usyk shortly responded that he wears an earring in honor of his Cossack heritage. “This is just the proof of my Cossack lineage,” he mentioned. “They never lost to anybody. There is no beauty or fashion in this.”
Overall, Fury seemed that the upcoming combat and all that surrounds it’s merely enterprise as normal. “All we’ve got to do now is dance, and I look forward to the challenge,” he mentioned, although it should be famous that Fury’s phrases and visible cues are apt to vary on a figurative dime. One factor that all the time seems to stay according to Fury, nevertheless, is his unimaginable self-confidence. “I don’t hate him,” he mentioned of Usyk. “I don’t dislike him, he’s a likeable character. I’ve got nothing bad to say about him. But it’s unfortunate for Olexandr that he’s got to face Tyson Fury in my era.”
Usyk little question has his personal ideas on the matter.
