By: Sean Crose
If anybody is aware of a factor or two about excessive stage championship boxing, it’s one Lennox Lewis, the previous undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, in addition to an all time nice. Now lengthy retired, Lewis’ opinion carries weight when he speaks in regards to the modern boxing scene. Evidently, the person has attention-grabbing issues to say in regards to the upcoming rematch between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury, which is able to go down in Saudi Arabia on December 21t.
On a latest interview with Battle Information, Lewis weighed in on the truth that Fury, who misplaced a squeaker to Usyk on the playing cards their first combat, claimed he gained’t change a lot about his strategy for the second combat. All he wants, he argues, is to do extra of the identical, simply at the next quantity. Lewis isn’t shopping for it.
“No, it’s not so simple as that,” stated Lewis. “He (Fury) does must make some changes. If he didn’t make any changes, then he would lose the combat once more. He must make some changes to win the combat, so he positively has to go in there with a targeted perspective and with the ability to throw much more punches.” The reality, nonetheless, is that Lewis isn’t bought on the argument that Fury is just going to do extra of the identical in his rematch with Usyk.
“I don’t assume he desires to offer an excessive amount of away,” Lewis admitted, “and I feel we’re going to get a special Tyson for this combat. I feel he realizes what he did improper within the first combat.” With a capability to combat expertly as each a defensive and an offensive fighter, Fury is certainly a person with quite a few instruments in his toolbox. Will they be sufficient to finest Usyk, although?
Though smaller than the towering Fury, Usyk is a profoundly expert fighter. What’s extra, he has a historical past of doing properly towards larger males. Not solely has he bested Fury within the ring, Usyk has additionally handily defeated former world titlist Anthony Joshua on not one, however two events. When requested how Usyk would do properly in Lewis’ time, Lewis made it clear the undefeated Usyk would slot in properly. “He would have gotten on good,” Lewis stated of Usyk. “Simply have a look at how Evander Holyfield bought on.” Holyfield, like Usyk, efficiently made the leap from cruiserweight to heavyweight throughout his profession.
Suffice to say, Lewis defeated Holyfield in November of 1999 after combating the favored titlist to an especially controversial draw the earlier March.
