Via Barry Holbrook: John Fury questioned what happened to all the muscle IBF, WBA & WBO heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk had last August when he beat Anthony Joshua for the second time in their rematch.
John, the 58-year-old father of the WBC heavyweight champion, said Usyk (20-0, 13 KOs) looks like a “bag of bones” in a photo he posted this week on social media with him standing next to him. a martial artist. Pool.
It looks like Usyk has just finished swimming a lot of laps, which has a way of making a person look thinner than they really are. John Fury believes Usyk, 35, has lost weight rapidly over the past five months and he wonders what happened to them.
Usyk is in talks to fight Tyson for the undisputed title in April in the Middle East, and it’s likely he’ll beat the first 6’9″ heavyweight of his career.
John doesn’t see that as a possibility, as he feels that Usyk is the best middleweight and doesn’t have enough range to beat Tyson. We saw Fury get knocked down by a fighter smaller than Usyk in Steve Cunningham, and he might have lost that if it weren’t for the former cruiser out of breath. What if Usyk doesn’t run out of gas? Did he beat Fury?
“When you fight a middleweight boxer, it seems his body has left him. I don’t know what happened to him,” John Fury said Joetalk about Oleksandr Usyk looking less muscular in the pool photo he posted on social media earlier this week.
“How did he get the body he fought with Anthony Joshua under the poor excuse that a man stepped out of a swimming pool? What did he do in between? What did he do? You told me. I know, and you know.
“He looked like a bone bag coming out of a swimming pool. A shoulder, well, I’ve seen young girls with bigger shoulders. He has no structure, no frame to mess with the ‘King of Gypsy’ at 20 stones entering the ring with 6’9” and power. He has skill and heart and can do 25 sets.
“Usyk is a small boxer who is good at middle and light weight and can be promoted to cruiser class. He can’t mess with the big guys,” said John Fury, perhaps forgetting that Usyk was the undisputed champion of cruiser class before moving to heavyweight to beat Derek Chisora, Chazz Witherspoon & Anthony Joshua.
“I’m sticking my neck out to say no at the moment, no,” Fury said when asked if anyone could beat Tyson. “Joe Joyce, a big, strong man, ‘The Juggernaut,’ he doesn’t have the skills to beat Tyson, and Tyson can box 12 rounds with his back and front legs.
“Joe Joyce will be there all night, moving forward, running, one beat. What he does best, and that really makes Joe Joyce unthinkable, doesn’t it?” John Fury said.
