Unified heavyweight world champion Oleksandr Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) and former unified heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) held their final press conference today at the Riyadh Season ahead of their highly anticipated rematch on Saturday, December 21 live worldwide on DAZN PPV from the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Oleksandr Usyk: “Now we just have the performance. Talks, cameras, lights, kind of show. Everything is going to be taking place Saturday night on the 21st…” [final message to fury] “Don’t be afraid. I will not leave you alone. See you on Saturday.”
Tyson Fury: “I’ve got nothing to say apart from there’s going to be a whole lot of hurt and pain in this fight, you watch. The talking’s been done. The first fight, I talked, I joked, all my career. This time I’m serious, I’m going to do some damage here on Saturday night. Watch me go to work.”
Let’s go Usyk!!!
I concur. Mouth Almighty needs a tune-up.
Finish what you started in the first fight Usyk and knock the loud mouth out.
Prize fighting is not about holding, laying on people on the ropes, and grabbing during a fight. Yet, Fury has gotten away with such tactics for years and never gets penalized. Prize fighting is about boxing, not rough housing. A part of me admires Usyk’s ability to box with way less BS of the Fury’s tactics of rough housing. Imagine if Usyk would be the same exact size as Fury? Fury would get KO’d for sure in my opinion.
Usyk UD. Usyk’s momentum is in the lead going into this fight. Fury has more to prove in this rematch and gain the momentum back. Yet, Fury was slapped around much harder in the first fight and he’s the bigger guy.
Scooby, Usyk would’ve had a KO the first fight if the ref knew what he was doing. There was no standing 8 counts and the red gave fury one 20 seconds long to regroup. Usyk stops him this time around in the later rounds.
That’s right. That ref was bought and paid for.
By whom?
I’m going with Fury by ninth round TKO but admittedly I’m not 100% confident. If Fury does what I think he can do (turn the negative emotions from May’s loss into positive motivation to reverse the result), he will win just like he did against Wilder in their last two fights. However if there are any cracks in the mental attitude those are sure to show up on Saturday.
Fury is so damn pathetic. Looks pathetic. Sounds pathetic. Fights pathetic. Usyk will win again. Substance over fluff.
I’d substitute the word psychotic for pathetic. Fury is not all there mentally. He doesn’t even make a secret of the fact that he has mental problems. One minute he’s jovial and friendly, the next he’s cursing you out. I hate that.
Best chance for Fury to win is to roughhouse, it will be difficult for him to win by boxing Usyk. I think we may see Fury go to that body more this fight as well, Usyk seems like he could be hurt there. May the best man win.
Fury is a slick boxer. He uses the movement to set up big punches. He’s not as skilled as Usyk, but he’s remarkably gifted nonetheless.
In-ring Usyk is smarter than Fury. He is completely adept to size, strength, stance, reach, speed, and temperament. Until someone outperforms some or all of these facets he will conquer [ Fury again ]. The two triumph[s] versus the larger and taller Joshua is no cake walk. His resume is very commendable at less than thirty bouts. Then to have conquered Fury is a monumental bonus that has gone over many heads. Beginning with Tyson. Usyk is psychologically the favor, with all of the facts.
Fury will go for an early KO. Usyk’s boxing abilities and stamina will derail Fury’s efforts. Usyk by KO inside 10 rounds.
@Henry: Agree, Fury will go in hard the beginning of the fight and stands a good chance of stopping Usyk that way. If that does not qirk and Usyk gets to the later rounds, still in a good condition he very likely stops Fury then.
@Henry: Agree, Fury will go in hard the beginning of the fight and stands a good chance of stopping Usyk that way. If that does not work and Usyk gets to the later rounds, still in a good condition he very likely stops Fury then.
Both man know each other.No excuse best man win.Hope it will be a great match for the fan.
I hope for Usyk but I’m afraid Fury will take it.
In the first fight I thought Fury did very well in some of the middle rounds when he was at a distance, landed long sweeping uppercuts to the body, and also to the face, he also moved nicely sideways, Usyk backed off on several of these occasions, and Fury was able to press and didn’t let Usyk build his boxing.
And it’s obvious that Usyk doesn’t like to be hit to the body, so that’s another key for Fury, and it can be hard for Usyk not to take these punches.
If Fury can repeat what he did in these middle rounds and alos box a little dirty, go into the clinch, press down Usyk, etc, then the fight can get into a state that can be experienced as physical and mental domination.
At such a time it will be difficult for Usyk, it will be difficult for him to manage Fury.
Usyk must then break free, turn things in the ring upside down, in one way or another, and if anyone is going to be able to do it, it will be Usyk.
That is my hope in this fight.
So he goes into the ring looking like a Rabbi and that’s OK ? Just look how far Boxing has Sunk ….
– Shave that beard, Fury.
– Back in the day, beards were prohibited.
– Go Usyk, go !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the fight for THE world heavyweight championship. “Unified”, “undisputed”, “WBwhatever” doesn’t matter. I don’t recognise the authority of corrupt sanctioning bodies and their tin pot dictator “presidents”. I know who the best two fighters in the division are.