Oleksandr Usyk On Tyson Fury: “He’s Running”

By: Sean Crose

Oleksandr Usyk is at present within the United States, at the least partly to boost cash for his struggle torn Ukrainian homeland. On Saturday the WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titlist appeared on the Theater in Madison Square Garden to look at his countryman Vasyl Lomachenko battle Jamaine Ortiz in an ESPN+ broadcast primary occasion. Speaking with ESPN’s Mark Kriegal, 20-0 multi-titlist Usyk was requested about fellow heavyweight kingpin, WBC and lineal champion Tyson Fury, who is ready to struggle longtime contender Derek Chisora for the third time this December. “It kind of makes me a little bit laugh about it,” Usyk stated by way of supervisor Egis Klimas. “Why he’s doing this?”

Usyk then made it clear that he had believed he and Fury had been already set to struggle within the close to future. “I think we already agreed to him, to fight ” he stated of Fury, “and now he’s running telling I don’t want to fight.” When Kriegal requested Usyk if he thought Fury was avoiding him, Usyk couldn’t have been extra clear. “I know that.” Of course, this type of discuss is widespread within the struggle sport. In reality, trash discuss at all times has, or at the least has because the late 1800s, been part of the game. Usyk, nevertheless, isn’t often called the sort to run with the mouth.

Still, Usyk wasn’t about to write down off Fury’s abilities as a fighter. “He’s danger,” he stated of the towering Englishman. “He’s big, he’s giant, he’s very smart. He knows what to do in the ring. He’s dangerous.” Not that Usyk appeared in the slightest degree cautious of ultimately going through Fury within the ring. “Yes, I want to fight with him,” he stated, “and we need to unify all the titles.” So when did Usyk really feel a bout with Fury would truly go down” “I think it’s going to be end of February, beginning of March,” he stated.

Provided Fury bests Chisora of their early December matchup, a bout with Usyk would make all of the sense on the earth. In reality, it truly is the one struggle that will make sense for every fighter. The winner would turn out to be undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, in spite of everything. Still, it’s price noting that quite a bit can occur between now and the primary quarter of 2023. The incontrovertible fact that Usyk’s homeland is within the midst of a bloody struggle with Russia darkly attests to that reality. Sometimes even a potential undisputed heavyweight title matchup needs to be seen in perspective.