Oleksandr Usyk has the power, the pace and the plan to beat Tyson Fury, says Sky Sports boxing expert and former world champion Johnny Nelson…
You can tell Fury doesn’t like to play second fiddle to anybody. I’m quite sure this is a lot more personal now for Tyson Fury no matter how he tries to look at it, because now he’s come up against a guy that he can’t intimidate. He’s come up against a guy that just doesn’t give him anything.
Fury knows now it’s about all his skills, all his ability, experience and the fight that he’s got left inside him. That’s got to be enough because if it isn’t, it’s quite clear this fight will probably go shorter than the last fight did.
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Now Usyk’s tasted his strength, his speed, his pace once, he has a better measure of him.
Remember what he did with Anthony Joshua. Anthony Joshua tried the same tactics as Fury, tried to outbox him, outsmart him and then in the second fight, even though AJ’s performance was great, Usyk’s performance was better. It was more calculated and it will be the same here.
Now he has the measure of the man in Tyson Fury, he knows that Tyson Fury is probably going to try and jump on him. Use his strength, use his size, use his physicality, which is what he should have done in the first place and that’s what he needs to do now.
Tyson needs to make sure that, combined with his boxing ability, puts the pressure on him from the off. Because the longer the fight goes, there’s more chance of him not being able to maintain that constant pressure, that physical pace on Usyk. Whereas Usyk, what he said in the first fight was: I’m not going to leave you alone. I’ll make you work for your supper and that’s what he did.
