Usik will create a great sensation. Fury has lost motivation, time has run out.

Usik will create a great sensation. Fury has lost motivation, time has run out.

Igor Nekrasov November 27, 2023, 20:30 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.

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On February 17, the most anticipated fight in recent years will take place in Saudi Arabia. WBO, WBA and IBF world champion Alexander Usik and WBC belt holder Tyson Fury will hold a unification fight for the title of absolute world heavyweight champion. There has been no undisputed champion in the actual division for nearly a quarter of a century, and in the four-belt era, no heavyweight has held all the titles at the same time. Therefore, the fight between Fury and Usyk will be truly historic.

Alexander and Tyson’s teams tried many times to organize a fight, but the matter was limited only to trash talk on social media. Now the two best heavyweights in the world will find out which of them is cooler. All this time, while the negotiations were taking place, the Gypsy King was considered the favorite. Fury is a unique boxer: despite his enormous size and, to put it mildly, not the most impressive physical shape of him, Tyson demonstrates phenomenal speed and footwork. At the same time, the Gypsy King packs a punch: of 34 of his victories, 24 were early.

But it seems that all this is a thing of the past: the recent fight with Francis Ngannou showed the world a completely different Tyson Fury. The Briton entered the fight completely unmotivated, overweight and with no desire to box. Instead of a boxing lesson for Ngannou, the crowd saw Tyson’s toughest win by decision, and even a Gypsy knockdown. It seems that the fabulous mandatory fee sums that were announced before the fight relaxed Fury so much that he did not prepare for the fight at all. Many experts point out the Gypsy King’s lack of motivation.

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“He must make the most of himself in the fight with Usyk. But I think he’s past his peak. He weighs a lot, he has slowed down and become heavy. I have inside information from his training camp. He no longer wants to run like before and his training is no longer the same. Like Joshua’s, these are silver pajamas. You look at your bank account and ask yourself, “Why am I fighting?” He doesn’t need it,” said multiple world champion and now British commentator Carl Froch in an interview with talkSPORT.

Apparently, Fury has really taken everything from boxing from a sporting point of view. He is not motivated by belts or titles, and it seems that he is more interested in a rematch with Ngannou than a fight with Usyk. After all, you need to prepare for Alexander, go through a full training camp and show the best version of yourself, as, for example, in the trilogy with Wilder. Losing weight, training hard – all this is no longer of interest to the British, which can play a cruel joke on them.

“Usik is a clever and cunning wolf. Typical traps won’t work. He will have to show his best game, he will have to lose weight. He can’t go out weighing 130kg and think that he’s going to beat Oleksandr Usyk. This will not happen. He needs to be able to keep up with Usyk. If he can’t, they will kick his ass,” Usik’s former coach Ali Bashir said in a conversation with a British blogger.

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Alexander seems much more motivated. He can make history by becoming the first undisputed world cruiserweight and heavyweight champion. What Usik really cares about is legacy, and he will enter the fight with Fury ready to die in the ring. Alexander has crazy functional training: he can keep the pace higher throughout the rounds and simply wear down his opponents. In terms of speed and footwork, Usik is in no way inferior, and even superior to the maximum Tyson, not to mention the Fury that we saw in the last fight from him. If the Gypsy King simply goes out to perform his act, like in the fight with the former UFC champion, and instead of preparing continues practicing his wit on social media and abusing alcohol, then Usyk will simply destroy the Brit .

Usik has the skills to defeat Fury and the Ukrainian’s motivation is incredible. Alexander is ready to make a splash and go down in history.

“The fury is big, powerful and complex. I’m smaller, but I’m incredibly motivated and hungry for boxing. I’m not motivated by money, I don’t care about material things. My path is what I am passionate about. For this moment I worked for 20 years,” Usyk said in an interview with Sky Sports.