Veteran Derek Chisora has announced that WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury will be competing with IBF boxing next month on May 18 as the injury to his right eye is still not fully healed ahead of the headliner in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He said he needs to face /WBA/WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk. Usyk will prey on Fury's weak eyes like a hungry shark.
Fury, 35, will need his dancing shoes for his fight against Usyk next month, so he might as well wear them. The 2012 Olympic gold medalist plans to transform Fury's face into a Picasso painting and attack her freshly cut and vulnerable eye.
Chisora hopes Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) will open Fury's eyes and cause “bloodshed.” Even if they did, it is unlikely that a ringside doctor would stop the contest. As we saw with the fight between Fury and Otto Wallin, he's probably too popular for doctors to stop the fight with a cut.
Although many agree that the 2019 fight should have been called off and Wallin should have been awarded the win, Fury was allowed to fight the entire 12 rounds with a horrific cut.
Fury's backup plan: Fighting, not boxing.
What could hurt Fury is if he's fighting with an open cut and limited visibility, which would be difficult to match up with Usyk, who is a fast sniper who can pick on him.
Once the cut opens, Fury will do what he does best. He turns the fight into a Greco-Roman wrestling match, leaning, grappling, holding, and punching all night long. A recent sparring video from which Fury is said to have been cut shows Fury clinging to his opponent and landing shot after shot.
The sparring partner didn't seem too happy with Fury's hold and blow, nailing a perfectly placed elbow to Fury's head. Will Fury duck down, grab Usyk and punch him?
Even if he doesn't make the cut, there's a good chance he will. He's too slow to have a chance to outbox.
blood festival is coming
“Fury is going to have to box. He can't stand there because his eye hasn't healed yet. The cut under his eye is still there,” Tyson Fury told Oleksandr on May 18. When asked if he was okay with an undisputed heavyweight championship fight with Usyk, Derek Chisora responded on the Lights Out YouTube channel.
“I know Usyk is training to put a tag on his eye to open his eyes. So it's going to be a disaster,” Chisora continued about the Fury vs. Usyk match.
“Yes, it's totally different the way he wants it now,” Chisora replied when asked if Anthony Joshua could beat Fury if the two fought.
