I’m capable of beating Tyson Fury, says Oleksandr Usyk
IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk believes he’s got the talent to hand WBC belt holder Tyson Fury his first loss after he gets through with Anthony Joshua next March.
The undefeated Usyk with a 19-0 bout record, including 32 KOs, says Fury is the ONLY one that thinks he’s the King of the heavyweight division, and he feels he’ll defeat the big 6’9″ fighter when they meet up.
Fury is now on cloud nine following his back-to-back victories over former WBC champion Deontay ‘Bronze Bomber’ Wilder.
Those two wins, which are among the best in Fury’s career, have given him an exalted belief about himself that he can trample underfoot the other top heavyweights in the division.
Before Fury and Usyk can meet for all the marbles, Usyk must send former IBF/WBA/WBO champion Joshua down to a second straight defeat and possibly end his career next March.
“Yes, of course, I do regard this fight as a huge one. He [Fury] talks a lot; he has a tongue,” said Usyk to The Sun about his observations about Tyson Fury.
“He [Fury] claims he’s the King of the kings, but it’s only he who thinks that. That’s what I can say about him,” said Usyk in putting Fury in his place as a fighter with an inflated sense of his worth.
Usyk believes he can beat Fury, and Scott Gilfoid thinks he can too. Fury has packed on all this useless weight, and he’s probably going to keep all that tonnage on him when it comes time for him to fight Usyk.
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“I used to hear those types of things throughout my life, but I am capable of beating Fury because I’m not boasting that I can just punish and beat every boxer in the world, but I just go to the gym and do my job.”
Before then, Fury will also need to beat his WBC mandatory Dillian Whyte in early 2022. Whyte’s promoter Eddie Hearn already said last Friday that Fury will be next and that they likely won’t be rescheduling the Otto Wallin fight.
If Fury ducks the Whyte fight, it may cost him his WBC strap. Without that belt, Fury will be a mere challenger when it comes time for him to take on Usyk in 2022, which isn’t the ideal position to negotiate a great deal with the talented Ukrainian
“I never thought for an instant Whyte was going to fight Wallin. I saw this was a grandstanding move to give Whyte some cheap publicity without him having to risk his backside. But as the saying goes, ‘There’s no such thing as bad press.’
“Before my Joshua fight, everyone was saying that I haven’t got a single chance to win and beat Joshua,” Usyk said.
