By: Sean Crose
Let’s face it, the possibilities of Tyson Fury shedding to UFC nice Francis Ngannou this weekend in Saudi Arabia are slim. Ngannou is a tricky and decided competitor. He’s additionally a blended martial artist who will likely be going through one the highest boxers on this planet in a boxing match. Kobe Bryant can play on the court docket higher than anybody – as long as it’s a basketball court docket. Put him on a tennis court docket and it will likely be one other story. Sure each courts have video games performed on them involving a ball, however they contain solely completely different endeavors. The similar may be true of boxing and blended martial arts: the variations in the end outweigh the commonalities. There’s some huge cash in these novelty bouts, nevertheless, so the present will go on in Saudi Arabia within the subsequent few days.
In the meantime, Oleksanr Usyk will watch and wait. Like Fury, Usyk is a heavyweight boxing titlist. Fury owns the WBC and lineal heavyweight titles whereas Usyk possesses the IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight belts. And, supplied Fury wins as anticipated this weekend, Usyk will likely be going through the towering Englishman subsequent. What’s extra, their battle will likely be for the undisputed heavyweight championship of the world. In different phrases, the winner will likely be in possession of all of the heavyweight division’s main titles. It will likely be fairly the massive deal. There hasn’t been an undisputed champion since Lennox Lewis dominated supreme over the division many years in the past.
Usyk, for individuals who don’t know, is taken into account a far larger risk to Fury than the favored Ngannou presently is. Like Fury, Usyk is an undefeated, expert and intensely gifted success story. That, nevertheless, is just about the place the similarities between the 2 males finish. Usky is a likeable man who can usually be sharply humorous. Fury, alternatively, has a bulldozer of a character. Loud, eccentric, comical and supremely assured, this large of a person attracts in a ton of media consideration, and with good cause. As the outdated saying goes, he makes good copy.
Ultimately, nevertheless, a fighter should show his or her price within the ring. And, to make certain, Fury has confirmed his price time and again. Will he have the ability to show himself towards Usyk, although? It’s protected to say Usyk doesn’t assume so. Like Fury, he too has confirmed himself time and again. With Fury taking kind on the horizon, Usyk is definitely studying himself to show his price as soon as extra. Provided, in fact, that Fury high Ngannou on Saturday. One by no means is aware of in boxing.
