Usik will expose the anger: Is the blame game coming?

Tyson Fury’s career as a major player will be on the line tonight in his rematch with three-time heavyweight champion Alexander Usyk at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh.

Usyk could put the 36-year-old former WBC heavyweight champion Fury out to pasture as he appears to be physically done with his looks. Tyson’s behavior was strange, signaling that the defeat against Wick last May had taken the best part of what was left of him.

The Age Burst

Fury looks worn out, and not just from the hard training. That fight and the mental torture he faced in the last seven months pushed him into the age of the bang. This is where a person suddenly ages quickly. Fury apparently went through one of his losses to Usyk.

Rapid aging usually occurs in the 40s and 60s, but it can start earlier if a person experiences high levels of stress.

Fury’s Career Survival

‘The Gypsy King’ needs a win tonight not only to put himself in position for a trilogy with Usik (22-0, 14 KOs) if that’s the direction he chooses to go, but also to generate interest in the mega-money all- British clash against Anthony Joshua.

The worst possible scenario would be for Fury to get plowed through tonight by Usyk, knocked out, and then sneak into a fight against Joshua, who is coming off a knockout loss. Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) looked awful, lost his last fight and had to be saved by the referee in the ninth round.

What I want to know is who will Fury blame after Usyk does him tonight. The obvious fall guy would be his trainer, SugarHill Stewardwho engineered his victory over Deontay Wilder with his game plan. Regardless, SugarHill should have been left behind after Fury’s controversial win over Francis Ngannou last year. Tyson really lost that fight, but the judges in Riyadh saved him.

What was obvious was that SugarHill’s game plan built around mauling wasn’t working, and he had no other ideas. He was a one trick pony. I don’t know why Fury kept him after that but threw him on the spot.

Fury has looked bad in his fights since his one big win in nine years, and it’s clear that SugarHill has no idea how to improve him other than using the tired reliance strategy he devised for the Deontai bout. Fury has used that strategy multiple times in his fights against Dillian Whyte, Derek Chisora ​​and 0-0 rookie Francis Ngannou.

If things don’t work out tonight for Fury, he can give SugarHill and Andy Lee the royal boot. Then he can tell the media that he’s going with a whole new team. The fans would accept it, and Fury’s loss to Usyk tonight would be partially washed away.

Matchmaking Magic

The reality is Fury isn’t that good, and never has been. He was always just a fighter who was done with matchmaking, he lives on his victory over 39-year-old washed-up Wladimir Klitschko. Fury got a LOT of mileage out of beating up the old grizzled guy, who Corrie Sanders had already knocked out in two rounds before fighting him.

Apart from that one win, Fury didn’t beat anyone and was always a step above British level, but his promoters matched him carefully to avoid guys who would expose him to the light of day as average.