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Joshua classier than Fury – Usyk

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World heavyweight champion, Oleksandr Usyk, has compared Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury after beating both fighters tagging the British-Nigerian the classier fighter of the two, PUNCH Sports Extra reports.

Usyk won the undisputed heavyweight world titles last month when he beat Fury in their historic fight. Their rematch was expected to take place in October but has since been pushed back to December 21.

The Ukrainian has two wins over Joshua as he won the unified belts from the 34-year-old in September 2021 and defended them in their rematch the following year.

Usyk gave a funny comparison when talking about his wins against Joshua and Fury as he told Three Knockdown Rule, “Anthony Joshua has classy boxing.

“Greedy Belly, my friend Tyson Fury. It’s like sparkling water, when you open it without shaking it’s good. If you shake it, it [blows]. Sparkling water is Tyson Fury and still water is Anthony Joshua. Tyson’s arms are like two metres, like a rope.”

Usyk admitted he doesn’t want to think about boxing at the moment after spending eight months preparing for Fury. Their fight was pushed back several times and cancelled on just days notice when Fury was cut above his eye in February.

Usyk surprisingly snubbed Fury whilst revealing the hardest puncher he has ever faced saying, “I would say toughest fight, yes, but I think biggest punch, no.

“Derek Chisora, very tough guy. With Derek, I don’t remember which hand if it was left or fight but I would block it and it would be like a baseball bat. It was very dangerous.”

Usyk is expected to lose his undisputed status and be stripped of his IBF belt in the coming weeks so the title can be on the line for Joshua’s UK return in September. The Ukrainian’s manager disagrees with the governing body’s decision and wants to see all four belts on the line again for Usyk and Fury’s second fight.

“We’re waiting for a decision to be made,” Klimas told Boxing Scene.

“I think it’s more important for Tyson Fury now. Oleksandr, of course, is a two-time unified champion and if the next fight is just for the three belts, I don’t think it’s going to be fair for either of the two guys, either Tyson or for Oleksandr.”

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Seething John Fury tells Carl Froch he isn’t good enough to ‘kiss Tyson Fury’s a*’

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Tyson Fury’s father John Fury has been left absolutely livid after hearing Carl Froch’s comments about his son’s boxing résumé.

The Gypsy King’s CV took a hit in the eyes of some boxing fans in December as two of his best wins suffered one-sided defeats.

Deontay Wilder was comprehensively outclassed by Joseph Parker and then, on the same show, Otto Wallin was destroyed in five rounds by Anthony Joshua.

These results led former super-middleweight world champion Froch to question Tyson’s record as he told LuckyBlock: “I don’t know if it was flattering for AJ or if it just looked bad for Fury, because he struggled against Otto Wallin.

“It leaves a lot of question marks. How good is Tyson Fury? What’s he ever done? Who’s he actually beaten?

“He obviously beat Wladimir Klitschko in a bit of a stinker. That was just an awkward, horrible performance where he just got inside Klitschko’s head and messed him up with that jab.

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“After the Klitschko fight, Fury had those three big standout fights with Deontay Wilder.

“But how good is Deontay Wilder now? He looked awful against Joseph Parker.

“So now you start questioning him. Is Tyson Fury actually what we thought he was or has he been flattered by the lack of opposition?

Froch’s comments have received no answer from Tyson, but drawn a furious response from John instead.

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Tyson Fury ‘is getting turned over in the gym’ ahead of Oleksandr Usyk fight

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Jonny Nelson has questioned whether Tyson Fury’s ‘legs have gone’ after hearing rumours of him being ‘turned over in the gym’ ahead of the fight with Oleksandr Usyk.

The ‘Gypsy King’ is currently in training ahead of his undisputed heavyweight clash with Usyk on on Saturday, February 17.

Arguably the most important fight of his life, Fury is going into the contest in shaky form after his controversial split decision win against former UFC champion Francis Ngannou last October.

That victory should have acted as a wake-up call for the 35-year-old, but according to Nelson, the noises coming out of Fury’s training camp are less than convincing.

Speaking on talkBOXING with Spencer Oliver and Jonny Nelson, Nelson said: “I’m hearing rumours of what’s happening in camp – I’m hearing that he’s getting turned over in the gym.

“So this thing about appetite when he’s in the gym, I mean, he got shown his a***.

“I’m hearing these things and I’m thinking has he taken his eye off the ball, or has time caught up with him?

“In regards to his last fight, I put that down to him disrespecting the man in front of him and if you’re led to believe he had the best training camp, his legs had gone.

“I’d expect Tyson Fury to beat Oleksandr Usyk, but the Tyson Fury who boxed Ngannou in his last fight gets knocked out.

“If that Tyson Fury turns up then it’s done, it’s over.

“The reason why I said ‘the legs are gone’ line is that I remember Tony Bellew saying it about David Haye and at first I was like ‘what?’, but when I saw it I knew what he was talking about.

“I might be saying something that might not be too popular – I expect him to win, I just think he dropped the ball in the last fight.

“These rumours I’m hearing, I hope they’re just rumours set about by him.”

WBC heavyweight champion Fury boasts a record of 34-1-0 is seeking the WBA, WBO and IBF belts the Ukrainian currently holds.

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Tyson Fury’s earring insult backfires as Oleksandr Usyk has perfect response

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Tyson Fury attempted to insult Oleksandr Usyk by mocking his rival’s earring – only to end up being humbled.

Fury and Usyk will meet next month to crown the first undisputed heavyweight world champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999. The rivals have been on a collision course for 18 months since Usyk completed his double act over Anthony Joshua.

And as they sat down to discuss their clash, Fury aimed a jibe at the Ukrainian. “I know he can’t beat me, I know he can’t,” he said. “A man who wears an earring can never beat Tyson Fury, ever. Not a chance, no-one who wears earrings can beat him.”

But Usyk was quick to respond as he explained his jewellery. “I can explain about the earrings. It’s Ukrainian warrior, Cossack,” he said. “They were the people who defended my country from our enemies for many years. This is just the proof of my Cossack lineage – they never lost to anybody. There is no beauty or fashion in this.”

Fury attempted to regain the upper hand, adding: “Listen in Ukraine it means he’s a good fighting man, for him. But where I’m from it means he’s a p**** with an earring in.” Fury previously promised the unbeaten heavyweight rivals would deliver a “fight for the ages” when they clash in Riyadh on February 17.

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“I’m going to bust him up. Sausage. Ugly little man. Rabbit. Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run,” he said. “You know what’s coming? You’re getting smashed to pieces, sausage. You’re fighting the best British heavyweight there’s ever been.

“You’ve beaten the rest of them, but you haven’t beaten Tyson Fury, sausage. You can never beat me. If you beat me in your dreams you better wake up and apologise. I stole that from Muhammad Ali, I apologise. When you sleep at night ugly man you’re going to think of me for the next eight weeks. I’m going to punch your face in. You ugly little man.”

Fury and Usyk were being lined up to meet last month, only for the Briton’s difficulty in dispatching Francis Ngannou on a controversial night in Saudi Arabia to result in a delay. With his verbal attack on the Ukrainian over, Fury talked up the quality of a contest between two outstanding boxers who posses skill and warrior spirit in equal measure, even if he thinks Usyk will struggle because of his size.

“We’re both undefeated. He’s a champion, I’m a champion. It’s going to be a fight for the ages,” Fury said. “It’s been 24 years since we’ve had an undisputed champion. The Klitschkos were champions for around 10 years, so there’s been 14 years when the other heavyweights couldn’t do it.

“We’ve both been chosen and there can only be one winner. I’m going to become the undisputed champion. More than that, I’m destined to cement my legacy as the number one fighter of this era. To do that I’ve got to beat this little man, which is easier said than done because he’s a tricky boxer, slick and all of that.

“But I’ve seen many like him before and when they fight the big men, they struggle. And he will struggle on February 17. I will break him. He’s a middleweight, but it’s not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog and he’s obviously got a lot of fight in him. But when you meet a big man who is a lot bigger but also has the fight inside him, let’s put it in a nutshell – you’re f****d.”

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I was called every name under the sun in prison, but nobody would say it to my face, reveals Tyson Fury’s dad John

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TYSON FURY’S dad John has revealed he faced terrible abuse in prison – but no-one dared “insult me to my face”.

The father-of-six has been behind bars three times, including for gouging a man’s eye out, but claims he is “everything a man should be”.

The former bare-knuckle fighter, 59, has a violent past but says his strong religious belief helped him overcome his darkest days.

As a teen, Fury Senior was twice sent to borstals – detention centres that have since been replaced by other forms of youth custody.

He escaped from the first one – a place he compares to the gruesome borstal of the 1979 movie Scum, starring Ray Winstone.

And after he was finally captured he spent three more years inside at a similar centre.

Then in 2011 Fury Senior was jailed for 11 years for wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.

It followed a fight at a car auction in Belle Vue, where he gouged out the eye of a man who had been his friend – until they fell out over a bottle of beer and had a long-running feud.

He was released four years into his sentence due to good behaviour, having initially been in notorious Category A prison Strangeways before moving to an open jail.

Now the dad of heavyweight legend Tyson has discussed some of his worst times inside.

He told the Daily Star, via Free Bets: “When I was in prison, at 10 o’clock at night, I used to get called every name under the sun through the windows.

“What they were calling me and my family was unprecedented.

“But did I know who was saying it? No. There’s 1,500 men in a prison where the noise comes from. You can only guess, but would they say it to my face? No.

“I’ve been round some hard cookies in my life. We thought it was tough. Nobody’s ever insulted me to my face.

“They can say what they want behind my back because there’s miles and miles in front of people. When you’re stood there looking like you’re gonna do somebody some damage, let’s see where the balls are.

“I know what mine are. You’ll have to kill me to stop me, because I’ll definitely end it there. I don’t want the police knocking on my door anyway. They have knocked on my door too many times.”

But Fury Senior insists his unpleasant side only comes out if he believes he has been insulted or his family need protecting.

He said: “The people in the know who know me, they know I’m not to be messed about with.

“I’m respectful. I’m everything a man should be. But I’m not a fool.

“Fools don’t rear families and direct their kids to stardom and fame and wealth or keep them there.”

 

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‘Not true’ – Tyson Fury’s former world champion sparring partner Jai Opetaia denies knockdown rumours after leaving Oleksandr Usyk camp having done just five rounds

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Jai Opetaia’s co-promoters have put out a statement to deny that he floored Tyson Fury in sparring.

Australia’s Ring Magazine cruiserweight champion is set to fight Mairis Briedis to regain his IBF world title on the undercard of Fury’s undisputed clash with Oleksandr Usyk on February 17.

As a result, he was recruited to join the Gypsy King’s camp in Saudi Arabia with many fans excited by the prospect.

Opetaia is widely regarded as the world’s best and most destructive cruiserweight today, and the southpaw remains unbeaten despite being controversially stripped of his IBF belt late last year.

Due to the fact Usyk is a former undisputed cruiserweight king, and also a southpaw, the Australian was viewed as the perfect sparring partner to prepare Fury for the Ukrainian.

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However, the pairing hasn’t worked out as Opetaia has left the camp already.

It’s reported that he did just five rounds with Fury before heading back home.

According to Australian journalist and commentator Ben Damon of Fox Sports Australia and Main Event TV, this was due to ‘a lack of orthodox sparring in Fury’s camp’.

Rumours have been rife on social media in response, with some claiming to have heard that Opetaia knocked Fury down and that this is the true reason he has left the camp.

However, on Monday, his Australian co-promoters Tasman Fighters put out a statement to deny this.

It read: “Jai Opetaia has recently returned from Saudi Arabia where he sparred and trained with Tyson Fury.

“They were fantastic, competitive rounds and an incredible experience for Jai.

“However any talk of either boxer being dropped is not true.

“Jai is now back in Australia finalising his preparation to defend his [Ring] title and cannot wait to do so in Saudi Arabia.”

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Jai Opetaia Leaves Tyson Fury’s Training Camp After Sparring Just 5 Rounds

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Cruiserweight sensation Jai Opetaia was recognised by some as the perfect sparring partner to Tyson Fury when his fight with Oleksandr Usyk was announced.

The 28-year-old southpaw won the IBF World Title from Mairis Briedis in 2022, fighting through a broken jaw to take a unanimous decision.

He defended the belt once – a fourth round stoppage of Jordan Thompson – before being forced to vacate when he had a fight with Ellis Zorro lined up because the sanctioning body would only accept the Briedis rematch. Opetaia produced a highlight-reel knockout against Zorro in the first round.

His slick lefty stance and potential as a heavyweight in the future led Fury’s team to get in touch for sparring before the Usyk bout – the current unified champion after winning all four belts down at 200lbs.

Opetaia grabbed the opportunity with both hands, and was then manoeuvred to have his second fight with Breidis on the same card, giving him the chance to win back the now-vacant IBF belt as well as defend his Ring Magazine title.

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Whilst the match-up bolsters his career, it has now been revealed that it has shortened his learning experience with ‘The Gypsy King.’

Ben Damon of FOX Sports Australia now reports that, after just five rounds of work, Opetaia has left the camp in order to pursue more orthodox sparring in preparation for his own fight.

Social media rumours immediately began to suggest that one man had hurt the other, but that has been confirmed as false by Opetaia’s team.

Opetaia-Briedis and Fury-Usyk land on February 17 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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Tyson Fury left red-faced as sparring partner lifts lid on Francis Ngannou camp

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Tyson Fury’s sparring partner Sol Dacres has refuted claims that ‘The Gypsy King’ didn’t prepare properly for his crossover clash with Francis Ngannou – suggesting the only reason Fury struggled to a controversial victory was because of how good Ngannou is. After an underwhelming split decision over his novice foe, Fury’s father John insisted that his son simply hadn’t done enough conditioning and that was why it was such a close fight.

“He didn’t look right, everything had changed about him, his demeanour, his body. I was puzzled. He said he had been training but there is training and there is training,” Fury Sr. told the Metro via Freebets.com.

“If you’re going at your own pace no one is going to tell you otherwise, no one is going to offend you or kick you up the backside.” But Dacres, who was in camp with Fury for five weeks in the lead-up to fight night, claims this was not the case.

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“He didn’t look right, everything had changed about him, his demeanour, his body. I was puzzled. He said he had been training but there is training and there is training,” Fury Sr. told the Metro via Freebets.com.

“If you’re going at your own pace no one is going to tell you otherwise, no one is going to offend you or kick you up the backside.” But Dacres, who was in camp with Fury for five weeks in the lead-up to fight night, claims this was not the case.

“John wasn’t really in the camp. It’s all good saying it in hindsight. I was there for five weeks. We were sparring hard, doing 12, 15 round sessions,” he told Seconds Out ahead of his upcoming English heavyweight title defence against David Adeleye on March 16th.

“I’ve been in previous camps and he was training just as hard as previous camps so it’s hard to say. It’s really more on him than anything. The training camp was preparing for a 12-round fight.”

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Tyson Fury Sparring Partner Refutes Claims That He Didn’t Prepare Well For Ngannou Fight

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Some three months on, people are still debating the fallout of Tyson Fury’s contest with former UFC champion Francis Ngannou in Saudi Arabia.

The discussion centres around whether or not Fury was showing a natural decline in the fight, if he simply had an off night, or if he had underestimated someone who calls himself ‘the baddest man on the planet.’

It stems from the fact that Fury only just got a split decision points win and never fully got control of the fight. The lineal and WBC champion was even put down in round three and his own father has said that he thinks Fury didn’t train properly conditioning-wise.

One man who should know is the man who was one of his sparring partners during the camp for that fight, and that is unbeaten English heavyweight champion Sol Dacres.

Speaking to Seconds Out ahead of his own fight with David Adeleye, he has dismissed John Fury’s comments.

This news might be of concern to Team Fury who will be hoping that a good camp in the run-up to his undisputed clash with Oleksandr Usyk on February 17th might right some of the wrongs of his last contest.

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Why Tyson Fury ‘regretful’ of Francis Ngannou fight, according to promoter

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Tyson Fury’s promoter believes that Francis Ngannou has earned a rematch following their first clash.

The pair fought in October last year and Ngannou, a former UFC heavyweight champion who was making his boxing debut, shocked the world, as he took WBC heavyweight champion Fury the distance and came close to emerging victorious.

Ngannou knocked Fury down in the third round and lost by a narrow split decision, although many people believed the Cameroonian had done enough to claim victory.

As such, Top Rank CEO Todd DuBoef thinks that Ngannou deserves a rematch.

“That’s an earned ability to get the rematch. He earned that,” Du Boef told Sky Sports.

“His performance dictated that, ‘Woah, he has a chance. We never thought he had a chance’ and in that situation I think absolutely.

“I think Tyson is regretful. He blamed himself. He thought he had an off night.

“He said: ‘I took it lightly. It was all on me.’ Didn’t point fingers, which was good.

“Ngannou outperformed anybody’s expectation and as a result of that you have all the components to say, hey, I want to see this again and that creates and warrants a rematch.”

For the time being, however, Fury is occupied as he has an upcoming undisputed heavyweight world title clash with Oleksandr Usyk on February 17.

The bout could see the first undisputed heavyweight champion crowned in the four belt era.

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