British boxing legend Duke McKenzie believes Tyson Fury’s plan to pile on the pounds and come in heavier for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk will only play into the Ukrainian’s hands.
The heavyweights collide again next month for Usyk’s WBA, WBO and WBC straps after he beat Fury in May to become the first undisputed heavyweight champion since 1999.
Recently ‘The Gypsy King’ has been pictured looking bigger than their first fight but McKenzie believes that would be a huge mistake.
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Speaking to talkSPORT he said: “He [Fury] doesn’t live, eat, walk, talk the sport but you’re supposed to. In-between fights is where fights are won and lost. We know Fury blows up, puts on a load of weight between fights and then he has got to get rid of all that weight again. Now, they’re trying to tell us that Fury is going to be bigger and better.
Bigger and better isn’t going to beat Usyk. It’s really not. If he puts on more weight and thinks to himself ‘I’m going to bully Usyk this time, I’m going to go in and walk him down, I’ll be able to take his shots because I’m that much bigger’, it’s not going to work for him. He’s going to be slower, he’s going to be more predictable, he’s going to get hit more and a lot sooner.
“Usyk wins the rematch all day long, I can’t see how Tyson Fury beats him. He’s not going to knock Usyk out. This guy is unbeaten, so you have to look for chinks in his armour. Has this guy got a bad engine? Does he get cut? Does he go down? Does he have to get up off the floor to win fights? Usyk doesn’t have to do any of them, he’s never shown a vulnerability.”
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