Usyk to expose fury: Blame game looming?

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

Usyk may put the 36-year-old former WBC heavyweight champion Fury out to pasture as he appears to be physically done with his looks. Tyson’s behavior has been strange, indicating that his loss to Uyk last May got the best of him.

The burst of age

The fury looks worn, and it’s not just from a hard workout. That fight and the mental torture he’s endured in the last seven months have pushed him to one age bursts. That’s where a person suddenly ages quickly. Fury has clearly suffered one since his loss to Usyk.

Rapid aging usually 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 a win tonight not only to put himself in position for a trilogy with Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) if that’s the direction he decides to go, but also to build interest for mega-money all… Brit vs. Anthony Joshua showdown.

The worst possible scenario would be for Usyk to close in on Fury tonight, knock him 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 will Fury blame after Usyk does him tonight. An obvious fall boy would be his trainer, SugarHill Adminwho ran his win over Deontay Wilder with his mauling game plan. Regardless, SugarHill should have been dropped after Fury’s controversial win over Francis Ngannou last year. Tyson actually lost this fight, but the judges in Riyadh saved him.

What was obvious was that SugarHill’s mauling-based game plan wasn’t working and he had no other ideas. He was a one trick pony. I don’t know why Fury held him back after that, instead of dumping him on the spot.

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

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

Matchmaking magic

The reality is Fury isn’t that good, and never was. He was always just a fighter who was overcome by matchmaking, living off his victory Wladimir Klitschko, over 39 years of age. Fury got plenty of mileage out of beating an old gun, who had already been knocked out in two rounds by Corrie Sanders before fighting him.

Apart from that win, Fury didn’t beat anyone and was always a step above the British level, but his promoters carefully matched him to avoid the guys who would have exposed him to the light of day the average