Gareth A says: Davies said Tyson Fury's nutritionist said he was in “fantastic form” ahead of his rematch with unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December 21 in Riyadh. Davies claims that Fury's conditioning was “fantastic”.
Lost camp
the 281 lbs Fury (34-2-1, 24 KO) didn't look in “great shape,” and he certainly didn't look “great” unless we downgraded the fighter significantly to meet that criteria. He looked like a retired former athlete who was out of shape and was taking things easy.
Tyson has looked like someone who has been sitting on the couch, eating cake and pie for the past three months. He appears to be carrying around 30 pounds of excess fat that shouldn't be around his waist. This is a discipline problem.
For the Gypsy King to go through a three-month training camp and look like this suggests the following things:
- Didn't work hard
- Cut corners
- Eating too much
- Heart is not enough
In this important fight, Fury should not have weighed more than 247 lbsThe weight he carried of his historic victory over him Wladimir Klitschko on November 28, 2015. Fury has never weighed in the 240s since that clash, and has not performed well in any of his fights in the past nine years.
Lacks discipline
This tells you that Fury lacks discipline because he should have been able to slim down to his mid-240s if he worked hard and controlled his food. He called it laziness, but he didn't push himself to lose weight. That's why he was beaten twice by Usyk and will likely lose to Anthony Joshua if this fight happens next.
“Fury has improved, and so has Usyk. His conditioning for a 20-stone man has been fantastic,” said Gareth A. Davies. King of Boxing Media About Tyson Fury's physical condition ahead of his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk on December 21.
“I talked to his (Fury) nutritionist, and they said he's in great shape and had a great camp. He showed that in the fight. Usyk was a little bit smarter. There were times when the giant Fury was trying to beat this smaller guy, and he was in and out And he goes down before he comes out in those victories in the last third of the fight.
“It was a close fight, it was definitely a close fight. It was a very physical match, and it was interesting. It wasn't an exciting fight one minute, but it was very interesting. It was a hard fought fight for both guys. It was a hard fought fight for both guys,” Gareth said of Fury and Usyk. “They went through 24 tough rounds together.”
The last two fights between Fury and Usyk were not stressful encounters. Usyk worked Tyson in the ninth round of their first encounter on May 18, but that was the only action-packed round of their 24 in which he landed a lot of punches. Their battles were chess matches, not grueling battles.
The anger did not improve. I don't know what Gareth is talking about. He has gotten steadily worse and seems incapable of besting any of the top heavyweights. Usyk is a good fighter, but some guys in the top 15 would have beaten him in his last two fights. He beat Fury and Anthony Joshua because they are not elite or A-level. During their best years, they were overrated, but now they are worse.
“There's an obvious fight for Fury (Anthony Joshua) next, but not for Usyk. The obvious fight for Fury is Joshua, but for Usyk, will he fight Daniel Dubois again if he defeats Parker? Will he fight Parker if he defeats Dubois on February 22 and gets back Undisputed title again? That seems the obvious way to go, but outside of that, what else does he (Usyk) have?
Usyk will likely fight the winner of the Daniel Dubois vs. Joseph Parker fight next. Eddie Hearn is pressuring Usyk to fight Jay Obitaya at cruiserweight, but that's not likely to happen. Opetaia is not a name for the average boxing fan, and it is not a fight that would do well. If Turki Al-Sheikh wanted to finance a fight between these two, that would be great, but otherwise, Usyk would be better off fighting the winner of Dubois-Parker to regain his undisputed championship.
