Tyson Fury remains the second-best heavyweight in the world but is still coming to terms with his loss to Oleksandr Usyk, says former world champion and Sky Sports boxing expert Jonny Nelson…
Now he’s back and out of everyone there except Usyk, Tyson Fury has the most qualifications, pedigree and character inside and outside the ring.
The only thing he doesn’t have is age. I don’t think he has the legs he used to have. He has everything else. Therefore, he has to be smart enough regarding who he chooses to fight and the battles he does.
He’s the second best heavyweight in the world until someone proves otherwise. He’s too smart for all of them.
But if you’re a world champion and you truly believe you’re the best fighter in the world, that means you truly believe you’re the best fighter in your weight class out of 8 billion people on the planet. That requires a certain amount of arrogance.
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So when you’re a heavyweight, like Anthony Joshua was, like Tyson Fury was really, really, it’s going to be very difficult for him to accept that you’re not officially the guy anymore. So he has to talk like, “I’m the man.”
Deontay Wilder had a hard time coming to terms with his loss to Tyson Fury. I think Tyson Fury will be there for the Usyk fight as well. he lost. He’s trying to find himself.
Maybe he had to keep watching Usyk to convince himself he could beat Usyk.
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Tyson Fury, who lost his first two fights, believes heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk will ‘beg’ for a trilogy fight before the end of this year
He should fight Fabio Wardley. If Tyson Fury said to Frank Warren, “I want to fight Fabio Wardley for a world title,” Frank would do it.
If Tyson boxed Mahmudov, depending on what his appetite was, how he was winning, how his performance was, Tyson would go to Frank and say what fight he wanted next, and Frank would give him that fight.
If Wardley was still champion, it would be Wardley, and that would be a good match.
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