Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk: Ukraine’s ‘elite fighter’ ready for showdown
Al Jazeera
Ukrainian champion goes into the unifying title bout against Briton Fury motivated to fight for his war-torn country.
Oleksandr Usyk may be the reigning WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO heavyweight world champion but to many the Ukrainian is the underdog going into his long-awaited unifying title fight with Tyson Fury in Riyadh on Saturday.
Size matters, it seems, with southpaw Usyk conceding 15 centimetres (6 inches) in height to the 2.06-metre (6 foot 9 inch) Fury, 18cm in reach, and close to 22kg (49lbs) in weight.
And yet, he is not perturbed.
“To win this, I don’t need to be heavy, I need to be fast, and quick,” he told The Ring magazine in February just before the Fury fight was postponed after the Briton picked up a cut in training.
“You never see a fat wolf in the forest.”
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