A secret for Tyson Fury ahead of Oleksander Usyk fight

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Former cruiserweight contender Tony Bellew dropped secrets Tyson Fury might find useful ahead of his faceoff with Ukraine’s Oleksandr Usyk.

Bellew was Usyk’s opponent a few years ago in the cruiserweight division, and remembered the Ukrainian’s abilities while talking to I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.

Following the contest between Oleksandr Usyk and Tony Bellew, the latter hanged his gloves, but Usyk went ahead to challenge Anthony Joshua of the heavyweight division for the WBA, WBO, and IBF heavyweight titles. After beating Joshua in the two bouts the challenge birthed, the Ukrainian also beat Daniel Dubois in a controversial victory to retain the lineal heavyweight champion’s throne.

In his conversation with I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, Bellew was telling about his last professional faceoff when he said, ‘And then he [Usyk] does it; he pulls the trigger. But I was exhausted, like, I don’t remember. I remember everything up until round seven. I don’t remember round eight.

‘I was up at six. He didn’t knock me clean out. I was down on my back, and I got up at six. Thank God the referee didn’t let me [continue] because he would’ve killed me. The referee literally saved my life … Next should probably puts me away for good.’

Here is what Bellew said about the heavyweight’s abilities that were helpful while boxing.

‘It was too hard. I’ve fought stronger people,’ Bellew recalled. ‘I’ve fought quicker people. But I’ve never fought someone like him, who’s got everything.

‘Oleksandr doesn’t create angles. He works you out; he downloads what you’re doing; it’s like he downloads all the date in front of him, and it takes him three rounds to do it. With me, it took him eight.’

Next in line to ‘dance’ with Usyk is Tyson Fury, who is currently the WBC heavyweight titleholder. What both men are expected to bring into the ring on February 17 in Saudi Arabia is expected to make the contest a hard one, but Fury remains the favourite despite his underwhelming performance while facing Francis Ngannou during The Battle of the Baddest on October 28.

After watching the ‘world’s best boxer’ get struck down in the third round of the ten-round bout by a boxing debutant, people’s trust in Tyson Fury’s super abilities became shaky. However, due to his size and demonstrated ability to get over heavy blows, he is expected to emerge as the victor come the D-day.

Now that Tony Bellew has shared a bit of a detailed story about his last ‘dance’ with Usyk, Tyson Fury has things to take note of as he continues to train in hope of becoming the undisputed world heavyweight champion.