Boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. can’t see the smaller sized IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champ Oleksandr Usyk defeat WBC champ Tyson Fury unless he enhances his punching power by May 18th, when the 2 fight for the undeniable champion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Jones Jr. believes Usyk requires a Hulk-like change in the power department to beat the massive Fury.
Roy Jr. feels that the previous undeniable cruiserweight champ Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs), who weighed in at 221 pounds for his last contest against Daniel Dubois, doesn’t have adequate size to beat the 6’9″, 270+ pound Goliath, Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs).
Fury’s Grappling Game: A Sign of Weakness
The genuine concern is, will Fury have the ability to get and battle Usyk to avoid getting chosen apart from him? Without Fury holding & leaning, he doesn’t stand a possibility against Usyk since he’s too sluggish.
Jones Jr. preserves that the 6’3″ southpaw Usyk would have a shot at beating the 35-year-old Fury if he had explosive power, however he doesn’t and hasn’t enhanced because location considering that going up from cruiserweight to heavyweight in 2019.
“Usyk is a terrific tactician, however he’s not all that dynamite,” Roy Jones Jr. informed Talksport.
“If he was explosive, it would be an issue. When you are smaller sized coming near the huge guys, you’ve got to bring dynamites to the ring, or they won’t appreciate you.
“If he can’t discover those dynamites before that fight happens, he will not beat Tyson Fury; I don’t care what they state.”
Usyk’s Weapons Go Beyond Brute Force
What Jones Jr. might be ignoring is Usyk’s exceptional speed, movement, athleticism, and ring IQ in this contest. He’s a far better fighter than the slow-footed Fury, who, at this moment in his profession, has actually become a grappler.
Usyk’s Tools to Defeat Fury
- Speed
- Ring IQ
- Athleticism: Olympic pedigree
Fury is sluggish, tosses weak shots, and after that falls forward to get his challengers to start trampling them. He does a great deal of holding & striking, battling with periodic bunny punches and elbows. In other words, Fury has actually changed into a basic roughouse fighter.
In Fury’s last fight against beginner Francis Ngannou, he was beaten to the punch all night, tore down, and beat by the previous UFC champ. Fury looked far older than his 35 years, closer to 50, and had no movement.
The motion that the Gypsy King Fury as soon as had 9 years back when he distressed 40-year-old Wladimir Klitschko by a razor-close 12-round choice was gone.
Some fans associate Fury’s lost movement and hand speed to him being available in at a career-high of 277 against Ngannou, however he’s been revealing the degeneration long before that fight. Age started years ago with Fury, which’s one of the factors he’s ended up being a mauler.
