Could Usyk vs Fury be as one-sided as Crawford vs Spence (POLL)

[F!x]

No one really expected Crawford vs Spence to turn out as one-sided as it was. With Usyk and Fury recently dethroned by Dubois and Ngannou, anything's possible in this fight. Usyk's redeeming quality from his last performance is that after he was knocked out by Dubois and given 5 minutes to recover, he did end up knocking him out in return. Although that should have technically been the second fight, a rematch. Fury on the other hand got beaten by an MMA fighter and never looked like he caused Ngannou any real problems at any point in the fight.

So could this fight between two former champs (but still Top 10 guys) Usyk vs Fury be a one-sided affair? And who's side will it favor?

[sleazyfellow]

Usyk would of had a tougher time with stick and move Fury. With this newer Fury who wants to square up and trade? Uysks constant movement frustrates him and its a comfortable UD for Usyk.

[F!x]

Usyk would of had a tougher time with stick and move Fury. With this newer Fury who wants to square up and trade? Uysks constant movement frustrates him and its a comfortable UD for Usyk.

Fair take. Think Usyk has any shot of knocking Fury down or out? He''s been knocked down from relatively light punchers before like Pajkic (29% KO ratio) and Steve Cunningham (43%).. Usyk is on 66.6% which might also make Fury superstitious about Usyk being a devil of a fight for him.

[sleazyfellow]

Fair take. Think Usyk has any shot of knocking Fury down or out? He''s been knocked down from relatively light punchers before like Pajkic (29% KO ratio) and Steve Cunningham (43%).. Usyk is on 66.6% which might also make Fury superstitious about Usyk being a devil of a fight for him.

A flash knockdown sure, I mean when I see Fury feint it can become obvious when he's actually going to start throwing. If Francis can time it being his first pro fight so could alot of fighters. For me, the way Fury feints is like a kid in school, nowhere near how quick someone as say, Tommy Hearns did it.

[YGriffith]

Although Usyk is much more skilled, Fury has like 50lbs on him and might just try to wrestle, so neither can make it a one sided beating like CrawfordSpence.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

I think it’ll be competitive but who knows, nobody fought Jones Jr vs Toney would be one sided or Mayweather-Corrales or Leonard-Duran II or Ali vs Liston etc.

That’s why the best need to fight the best…

[deathofaclown]

Yes, people will realise after 3-4 rounds that Usyk can't deal with the physicality Fury will put on him

This isn't AJ or Dubois who will get into a fencing match with Usyk because they have never shown a skill set to use their size.

Forget Fury's poor showing v Ngannou, this will be very very different.

Fury is always at his best when he knows it's a real challenge and he will turn up much different and apply extreme physicality on Usyk.

I always said Usyk would beat AJ after people said Usyk struggled with Chisora so he would lose to AJ. And i pointed out that AJ hasn't got the experience of using his size and physicality, he's never done it.

Usyk only shaded a 115-113 against a really shot Chisora who had about 10 losses, simply because the physicality Chisora could force upon him was overwhelming at times but he got through it. Fury is a different animal to Chisora altogether as we see when they fight, Fury can maul Chisora if he wants.

Fury isn't ******, he isn't going to fence with Usyk like AJ or Dubois do because its all they can do. he's going to get on top of him from round 1 and drain the life out of him and rough him up and Usyk hasn't got the physical capability to stop it.

A lot of people are going to look silly for writing off Fury because of a lacklustre showing at a circus against an MMA fighter he didn't prepare for really, especially mentally.

He will brutalise Usyk

[PRINCEKOOL]

No, but? I have already long before Ngannou vs Fury. Theorized that Usyk could beat Fury, pretty much the same way he beat Joshua.

Fury's defense and endurance are overrated. Even his fight the other weekend vs Ngannou, go and check his work-rate it is never nothing special 'Completely overrated. We must also factored in? The more intense a fight is, Fury is more prone to making unforced errors and technically getting out of shape more so than Joshua'.

Tyson Fury may be a more natural fighter than Joshua, but as a boxer Joshua is technically more correct, text book and fundamentally sound 'Joshua is this type of fighter mainly because the game did not come as natural to him as for Fury'.

Tyson Fury does not have the punching power of Joshua, and contrary to the status quo Fury's brute strength is overrated 'Fury has never bulled another Super Heavyweight inside the ring, the only time he has fought any super Heavyweight in the front foot was? When he out weighed them by 30-40 + pounds, Wilder, USS Cunningham that is it.

Fury fought Kiltschko on the back fought, Chisora on the back foot, Whyte on the back foot, and most recently Ngannou on the back foot 'Fury's brute strength is overrated, the feats of achievement which prove that his brute strength is elite? Have never been achieved'.

So this notion that Fury will just wade forward vs Usyk, and walk through him like paper mache, when Joshua did not? Is not for certain.

Does Fury have a superior inside game than Joshua, yes? But only because Fury is game enough to fight on the inside, I would not exactly rate his inside game as elite. Fury squares up to his opponents, leaves himself open to counters, and in general if you really watch his fights 'Fury's spatial awareness is not always 100% on point, there are always moments in Fury's fights were a technical calamity will appear'.

Note: If Tyson Fury does not blast out or bull Usyk out of the ring, with his superior inside game and rough house tactics inside 5-7 rounds 'Then I can see the fight going the same way the Joshua vs Uysk fights went. Fury will fatigue as the fight progresses into the latter rounds, but unlike Joshua? Fury will make more unforced errors, that is why I have stated that Uysk could beat Fury worst than his win over Joshua'.

Joshua vs Usyk, really never fought a bad fight. Nobody can watch his fights vs Uysk, and say things like? Joshua fought a bad technically fight were he was all over the place, and that is why he lost. But in comparison, we only have to look back and Fury's fights vs Wilder and Ngannou 'You can go through many more past fights, and pick out moments were Fury is a complete technical calamity, clumsy fighter with lack of spatial awareness' And some of those fights are not even against World level Heavyweights.

The fighters Fury has been fighting, have not really been able to capitalize on his innate clumsiness, which has gotten miles worst since he left the tutorage of Peter Fury.

Note: I have not voted on the poll etc.

[JakeTheBoxer]

In favor of Fury, no chance.

Fury is shot. He fights rarely and not even top competition. he fought Whyte 18 months ago. Than he fought Chisora in december 2022 and Ngannou in october 2023.

The problem is, Fury fights so rarely that we haven`t even recognized when he became shot.