Tyson Fury’s promoter has a huge concern ahead of the upcoming undisputed fight with Oleksandr Usyk.
This fight has already had one big setback when it was delayed back in February just days before the first bell. Fury suffered a cut late on in sparring which ruled him out of the original date.
He had to have stitches to the wound above his eye and has not yet got back into sparring. The fight is now scheduled for May 18 with many worried about whether or not the cut has fully healed.
The fight is the first time all four major heavyweight belts have been on the line in one match for some 25 years since Lennox Lewis fought for them in 1999.
Speaking to BoxNation, Top Rank CEO and Fury promoter Bob Arum was asked how he saw the fight going.
“I always, once this fight was made, I always felt that Fury was a big, big favourite because I thought his size and his boxing ability would be too much for Usyk. So I looked at it as a 3 or 4-1 fight in favour of Tyson Fury.
“But I’m troubled with the way Tyson looked in his last fight with Ngannou in Riyadh. I was there, I thought he looked dreadful, Now, there are two explanations.
“One, he really didn’t train hard for that fight, or two, when we put on years we don’t function as well as we do when we were younger, physically, so is this what we’re seeing with Tyson, based on the Ngannou fight, or was it that he didn’t take it that seriously and wasn’t prepared? We’ll find out in May 18.”
Roy Jones Jr has recently spoken about what he thinks is the key to victory in this fight.