Without making a fuss, Oleksandr Usyk quietly prepared for the classic title unification match with Tyson Fury with terrifying power when “punching away” sparring fighters.
Tyson Fury, his family and the entire training crew arrived in Saudi Arabia yesterday May 7 to prepare for the world classic boxing heavyweight title unification match on May 18. Meanwhile, information about Oleksandr Usyk is still quite scarce.
But that doesn’t mean Usyk is “lost”. The latest details just revealed show that the 37-year-old Ukrainian boxer is secretly preparing to be extremely scary when he “punches away” all the sparring fighters at the training camp.
“I know Usyk has 5 heavyweight boxers as sparring partners. I talked to 3 of them and they all said that Usyk got stronger the more he fought and he… punched all 5 of them away. “, boxing legend Johnny Nelson revealed on Sky Sports.
“Speed leads to power. In a fight like this both can be knocked out. Tyson Fury is the embodiment of a warrior and when the bell rings to subdue his opponent he will do everything everything, including tricks, until the referee says stop”.
“We all think Fury is superior physically and that will be a problem for Usyk, but the truth is Fury is only better in height, reach and maybe speed, but not in strength.”
It is known that when preparing for the fight with Tyson Fury according to the old schedule on February 17 this year, Usyk chose 5 sparring sparring partners: Sanel Hasonivic, Emmanuel Odiase, Mariusz Wach, Darren Sealy and Volodymyr Katsuk.
Two of the 5 names mentioned above are 2.03m tall (Hasonivic, Katsuk), there are even 2 boxers (Sealy, Odiase) who are approximately as tall as Tyson Fury (2.06m) and the “shortest” person (Wach) is also nearly 2m high. Not all of these are famous boxers, but these sparring partners are all considered “tough” and suitable for Usyk to practice with before facing the “2.06m tall monster” Fury.
As for Tyson Fury, sparring is one of the problems for the British boxer. In early February, Fury suffered a deep tear in his right eyelid while sparring with Argon Smakici. This accident caused the Fury vs Usyk match to be canceled on February 17 and moved to May 18.
This new competition timeline is considered by many boxing and medical experts to be “risky” for Tyson Fury, because the tear in the eyelid is difficult to completely recover from and then it is very easy for Fury to be beaten by Usyk. Attacking this weak point leads to re-injury and heavy bleeding.
