One of John Fury's old boxing rivals is adamant that Tyson cannot beat Oleksandr Usyk in a heavyweight unification bout.
Unless the bout ends in a draw, boxing will crown its first undisputed heavyweight champion in 25 years in Saudi Arabia on Saturday night. The much larger Fury is the favorite to win with most punters, but not all.
There is no doubt that Usyk will celebrate former British heavyweight Steve Garber, who fought Fury Sr. twice and brutally knocked him out in 1995. Gerber, 61, believes Tyson was “done” for not taking care of himself outside the ring.
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“He never dreamed of a fight like that. He knows he's going to have a tough fight. I'm telling you, Usyk is going to beat Fury,” he said after his last fight in 1989. declared Garber, from Yorkshire, who fought the undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis.
“It would be good for boxing if Fury wins because he’s marketable, he’s a man of his word and he’s funny. But he’s fighting a guy who has a special mindset and can be in tune with Fury.
“flat [Anthony] Joshua was not a physically strong man. Usyk is going to do what he has to do and adapt. He believes he will stop it.
“Fury is gone, he's not the same fighter. What people don't understand is that he's 35 but looks like he's 65 because he hasn't lived through that era. is. [boxing] life.
“Booze, drugs, gaining and losing weight. It didn't do him any good. Neither did Ricky Hatton. [Floyd] Mayweather's father told him: [Hatton] In Las Vegas, I was there too, what I'm doing now, gaining or losing weight, is in vain and it affects me.
“There are very few fighters out there who live their lives, other than Mayweather, who is a gym rat. He still doesn't drink. That's what it takes, you don't abuse your body. It won't affect him. [Fury’s] Punch resistant. I want him to win, it would be good for boxing if he wins, but he won't. ”
Fury, who was lucky enough to defeat boxing novice Francis Ngannou on points last year, looks particularly fit to take on the diminutive but slippery Ukrainian.
“That performance against Ngannou was embarrassing,” Garber added. “His father told him he had to put in the work because he had all these 'yes men' around him.
“Everyone around him would just disappear, disappear. Mike Tyson was the same way. I was there when he was. [Tyson] fought Kevin McBride [in 2005]. He lost and was left alone, he couldn't believe it. He was there for financial reasons. ”
