Can Fury overcome his ‘glass jaw’ to defeat Usyk?

Shakur Stevenson gave Tyson Fury the advantage to defeat unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night in a rematch in Saudi Arabia.

Shakur predictions

WBC lightweight champion Stevenson says Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) will win if he is in “shape” and stays “focused.” Shakur gives Fury a 55-45 chance to defeat WBA, WBC and WBO champion Usyk.

Bearded Fury looks good for himself, but that might not make a difference. He was in good form the last time he faced Usyk (22-0, 14 KO) on May 18, however he lost the fight via a 12-round split decision.

Fury’s problem isn’t his conditioning. It’s his Glass jaw From his three fights with Deontay Wilder. He can no longer take punches, and Usyk will expose that weakness on Saturday, just as he did in their previous fight when he brought him to his feet in the ninth round in Riyadh.

Usyk is so great bro, he’s so tough to fight over the course of 12 rounds of a fight.. I’m like 55-45 Fury in this fight.. All Fury has to do is get back in shape and stay focused throughout the fight! !

-Shakur Stevenson (@ShakurStevenson) December 16, 2024

Destructive power?

“I’m looking forward to the fight that I’m going to win and I’m going to be devastating and spiteful,” Tyson Fury said. Queensberry OffersExpected victory over Oleksandr Usyk. “I was basically relegated at will. They said I couldn’t advance, and then me and Sugar Hill (the host) would get together, and It has become a devastating punch And I started kicking everyone out.

The opponents Fury has taken down since teaming up with the SugarHill Steward in December 2019 have been nothing special. Since then, Fury has knocked out two British heavyweights, and Deontay Wilder, a world-class fighter, maneuvered himself to win the WBC world title via clever matchmaking.

Fury’s knockout under SugarHill’s watch

– Derek Chisora: *The journeyman
– Dillian Whyte: Ditto
-Deontay Wilder x 2

If Fury had knocked out some good heavyweights, like Martin Pacall or Daniel Dubois, you could say Sugar Hill turned him into a “destructive boxer,” but he was beaten three times.

Justify defeat

“He won this fight by one point last time, by a round,” Fury said of Usyk. “If there had been one of those other rounds, I would have gotten it from one of those rounds one to 12. If the rounds were identical in the rounds I won and lost, it would have been a draw,” Fury said, trying to rationalize it.

“If I had gotten any of the other rounds and not gotten 10-8, I would have won it.”