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Promoter Frank Warren says the trilogy match between Tyson Fury and unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is done, provided ‘The Gypsy King’ wins Saturday night’s rematch in Saudi Arabia.
Risking the Mega-Fight
If Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) wins on Saturday, fans would prefer to see him move on and face Anthony Joshua or Daniel Dubois rather than go straight into a trilogy fight with Usyk. The third fight between them can always happen later after Tyson fights the 35-year-old AJ, who at this point looks very uncomfortable after being blown out in five rounds by Dubois.
Given Joshua’s vulnerable condition, it would be a mistake for Fury to take the trilogy match with Usyk. If Joshua wins again while Tyson is booked to fight Oleksandr again, it will take a lot of interest from the boxing public to see a Fury-Joshua match.
Great all the time?
Warren argues that if Fury, 36, defeats Usyk, it will make him one of the all-time greats. That’s a bit of a stretch because Gypsy King would still lack wins over top quality fighters who were still young when he beat them.
Fury’s best run wins
- Wladimir Klitschko
- Deontay Wilder
- Dillian Whyte
- Derek Chisora
You’d be stretching it to think that Fury’s best wins make him one of boxing’s all-time greats. Even if he beat the 37-year-old Usyk on Saturday night, his resume would still be too thin to put him among boxing’s greats and definitely No. 1. That would be a joke, and no one would take it seriously.
At this point, Fury’s career No. 1 win is a narrow 12-round victory over 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko. If you follow the Wlad fighter, you would recognize that he was one faded fighter when the then 27-year-old Fury fought him.
Try to imagine where Fury will be physically when he’s 39 and fighting one of the best. You won’t be able to argue that he was in his prime, and you’d have to discredit any win by a younger fighter over the old shell of Fury. That’s why it’s impossible to list Fury among boxing’s all-time greats, as his resume is too weak.
Trilogy contract
“He’s doing it because he’s under contract, and no matter what happens, that would be the case if Tyson wins, as long as nobody pulls out,” promoter Frank Warren told Boxing news on the hiring of a trilogy match between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk.
“A lot of reporters after the last fight … most of them said that Usyk is now the best heavyweight of his generation that deserves to be up there with the Alis and the Lewises and the Marcianos and all those guys that they come back time.
If Tyson beats him (Usyk), that becomes Tyson, and I think Tyson is there anyway. The fact that he is a two-time world champion (title wins by Wladimir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder), the fact that he won his titles on the road in the other guy’s countries or in his adopted country (Germany to fight Wladimir , 39 years old). ). He is (Fury) there. He’s a great, great fighter. He’s been through this one, he’s an even better fighter.
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