Fury and Usyk’s undisputed heavyweight world title fight is just six weeks away but former champion Shawn Porter doesn’t think it will take place
Tyson Fury has been predicted to pull out of his undisputed heavyweight world title fight against Oleksandr Usyk.
Fury takes on fellow world champion Usyk for all of the marbles at heavyweight on February 17th in Saudi Arabia. The Brit is hoping for a more convincing performance than in his last fight as former UFC champion Francis Ngannou came close to beating him last October. Fury had to pick himself up off the canvas in that fight to win by just one point in a controversial decision.
The undisputed fight is just over six weeks away but retired world champion Shawn Porter is still unconvinced it will go ahead. “Even with the fight being signed sealed and delivered I don’t feel like this is the kind of energy that he wants to that he wants to exert any more in the boxing ring,” Porter told ProBox TV.
“You look at a guy like Tyson Fury, a guy who has been around this track so many times. I think that a fighter will get to a point where they see the hardest night ahead of them and they’re like, ‘Man, I just had so many of those hard nights, I am not going to have that hard night’.
“What we know about Tyson Fury is that he is a showman, what we know about Tyson Fury is that he likes things to be his way or no way. Which is why he went after Francis Ngannou, because those are the kind of fights that he is looking for. He is looking for things that are going to give him the money and the recognition and the nights that he is not going to have to train hard for anymore.”
Fury flew out to Saudi Arabia on New Year’s Eve to continue his preparations for the fight but confused fans after releasing a video that was seemingly filmed in England just days later. Little has been heard on Usyk’s end in recent weeks whilst Fury has continued his verbal assault of the Ukrainian.
“Another big day of running in the f****ng mountains! Come on! Easy work, smashing Usyk’s little rabbit face right in for him. Useless piece of s***,” Fury said in a recent clip mocking Usyk as he captioned the post: “Working hard for the undisputed heavyweight championship 2024” along with the hashtag “run rabbit run”
