Promoter Confident Fury Can Turn The Tables On Usyk Rematch

Promoter Frank Warren commented today that many people viewed former WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury as doomed when he fought Oleksandr Usyk on May 18.

Warren points out that it was a close fight, which ended in a “split decision,” and that Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) still feels he deserved the win. He says all Fury, 36, has to do to win the December 21 rematch with WBA, WBC, and WBO heavyweight champion Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) is fight the way he’s been doing in previous rounds.

Recapturing Early Success

“People are talking as if he was killed or something is being talked about in that first fight. There was nothing in it; it was a split decision,” said promoter Frank Warren on his YouTube channel about Tyson Fury’s fight with Oleksandr Usyk last May.

The fans focused on how Fury was knocked from pillar to post in the ninth round and it looked like he was fattening up the whole fight. If Usyk had a better gas tank, he would have finished Fury in the 10th or 11th round. He looked tired after working Fury over in the 9th round and didn’t have the engine to finish this vulnerable, seemingly invisible man in the last three rounds.

“What he needs to do is to do what he has done in the previous rounds and stay focused,” continued Warren about Fury. “He really feels he should have won it, and I’m not talking about the decision; I’m just saying he should have won it, and he could have. And he knows what he has to do in the future to make that happen.”

Fury wasn’t very good in the early rounds against Usyk, and the only reason he didn’t work then, was that Oleksandr was fighting more consciously. If he stepped on the gas, he would work Fury and maybe take him out.

Usyk wasn’t letting Fury make excuses like he usually does to win his fights, and besides, he couldn’t hold his own against the talented Ukrainian.