Comments Thread For: Fury, Usyk Agree To Fight Next Without Interim-Bouts, Says Arum

[Casualfanboy]

This fight will come down to the size of the ring. Small ring…Fury wins. Large ring, Usyk wins.

I had now idea it was that simple to determine the outcome of this fight!

[dan-b]

If this fight does happen, it won’t live up to the anticipation.

They never do but it's a necessary fight for the sport. I'm looking forward to it, if you're that downbeat about it it's probably time to take a break from following the sport. I did a few years back and it did me good.

[PunchyPotorff]

Definitely looking forward to it. It's the kind of mega-fight the sport needs.

[hugh grant]

Boxers have a short career so money is important? True, but also so they better hurry and get fight made as it might never happen.
I've never seen a fight at Wembley live, only music concert. So if it's cheap enough maybe, id not get a front row, id be at back I might need binoculars

[cacarr]

Really? Is that how you felt prior to the first AJ/Usyk fight? Because from what I recall, most fans thought AJ would ko Usyk. That didn't exactly happen. Usyk won't go down without a fight. And while Usyk hasn't fought anybody like Fury, Fury certainly hasn't fought anyone like Usyk.

Unless of course, you count Steve Cunningham, who floored Fury early on. And the only real comparison there, is that Usyk and Cunningham were both former cruiserweights. Usyk is going to give Fury problems.

If Fury comes in relatively lean, and decides to get up on his toes and box; pumps the 85" jab with the herky-jerk one-twos, and then just grabs and mauls and leans on Usyk when he does manage to get into a range where he can work, how does Usyk deal with that?

I don't see how he can. Seems to me that *if* Fury elects to go that way, he can win a boring fight pretty comfortably.

If Fury comes in extra-fat, with poor balance, trying to pressure and smash Usyk -- then Usyk might well be able to steal rounds when Fury misses badly, by ripping off bunches of his slappy patty-cake punches, stepping around and finding little angles, like he does. Might be able to steal enough rounds to win a decision.

I just don't understand why Fury would let him in close enough to do anything -- unless it's an ego thing and he wants to smash the midget. ... that's a highly slippery and skilled midget, though.