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Tyson Fury tipped to drag out of Oleksandr Usyk undisputed battle regardless of camp

Tyson Fury is tipped to again out of his undisputed heavyweight world title battle towards Oleksandr Usyk.

The Brit is about to face Usyk on February 17 in Saudi Arabia, however former world champ Shawn Porter reckons it won’t occur. “Even with the fight being signed sealed and delivered I don’t feel like this is the kind of energy that he wants to exert any more in the boxing ring,” Porter informed ProBox TV.

Porter added: “You look at a guy like Tyson Fury, a guy who has been around this track so many times. I think that a fighter will get to a point where they see the hardest night ahead of them and they’re like, ‘Man, I just had so many of those hard nights, I am not going to have that hard night.'”

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“What we know about Tyson Fury is that he is a showman, what we know about Tyson Fury is that he likes things to be his way or no way.

“Which is why he went after Francis Ngannou, as a result of these are the type of fights that he’s searching for. He is searching for issues which can be going to offer him the cash and the popularity and the nights that he’s not going to have to coach onerous for anymore.”

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Oleksandr Usyk during boxing gala in Wroclaw, Poland on August 26, 2023
Oleksandr Uysk and Tyson Fury have been on a collision course

Fury flew out to Saudi Arabia on New Year’s Eve to proceed his preparations for the battle however confused followers after releasing a video that was seemingly filmed in England simply days later. Little has been heard on Usyk’s finish in current weeks while Fury has continued his verbal assault of the Ukrainian.

“Another big day of running in the f****ng mountains! Come on! Easy work, smashing Usyk’s little rabbit face right in for him. Useless piece of s***,” Fury mentioned in a current clip mocking Usyk as he captioned the submit: “Working hard for the undisputed heavyweight championship 2024” together with the hashtag “run rabbit run”.

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