‘In three months’ – Tyson Fury reveals remarkable sacrifice for Oleksandr Usyk rematch
Tyson Fury has revealed a three month sacrifice he’s made for his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk.
Fury meets Usyk for the second time this Saturday in one of the most highly anticipated boxing matches of all time🧸.
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The Brit was dropped during round nine in the pair’s first fight back in May but only narrowly lost via a spli༒t-decision.
Ahead of his rematch with the Ukrainian, Fury has locked himself away for a brutal training camp, while 🍷conducting minimal interviews.
The 36-year-old has previously said he can be ‘more focused’ and 🅺cut down on the ‘clowning’ around to avoid a repeat of history on December 21.
But now, ‘The Gypsy King’ has revealed one massive sacrifice he’s made for his heavyweight clash in Saudi Arabia.
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“I'm going to end him, end his career,” he Queensberry Promotions on Monday. “You'll never hear of Oleksandr Usyk again after this.
“It's been a long camp. I’ve been away from my wife and kids for three months.
“I've not spoke to Paris at all in three months. Not one word, sacrificed a lot. But it’ll all be worth it.”
Fury was then asked what the first thing on his list was 💙if he can get the job done on Saturday night.
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“I’ll be flying home for Christmas. Plenty 𝄹of eggnog a🌟nd mince pies and turkeys and all that,” he added.
“I can’t wait [for Christmas].”
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Fury revealed in October that his wife, Paris Fury, suffered a tragic miscarriage the night before he made his ringwalk for 🔴the first bout with Usyk.
“෴She lost [the baby] on the Friday of the fight, w🌄hich was pretty s*****,” he said at the time.
“I am 𒈔not making excuses but she was six months pregnant. It’s not like a small miscarriage at the beginning.
"You have to physically give birth to a dead child, on your own, while your husband is in a foreign country. I could not be🦹 there for her, in that moment, and that is tough for me.
"I have been with the woman for l🎶onger than I wasn’t with her, so it is hard that I couldn’t be there with her.”
The Mancunian had said he knew there was a ‘big problem’ when Paris was not able to fly over for fight week☂ in May.
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Turki Alalshikh, Saudi’s boxing chief, had offered Paris a private jet due to her high blood pressure, and said he would bring a doctor with her, but she was not able 𒁏to m🦄ake the flight.
Fury’s fellow heavyweight giant Dillian Whyte has told talkSPORT that 🔯Fury can exact revenge on Usyk.
Whyte was knocked out by Fury in April 2022 at Wembley Stadium, and has since gone on a three-fight winning streak, most recently overcoming Ebenezer Tetteh in Gibraltar.
“I personally think he needs to be aggressive and try and rough him up,” Whyte told Alan Brazil and Ray Parlour on talkSPORT Breakfast.
“He needs to fight him like he fought Deontay Wilder the second time and Steve Cunningham,” he added.
“When Steve Cunningham put him down, Fury got up and got physical a♒nd started pushing him and started manhandling him and started ro🌱ughing him up.
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“He might lose a couple of points but who cares, just go in there. He needs to try and circle Oleksandr Usyk and try to rough him up.
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“Maybe he'll even hit him with a few borderline punches just to try and throw him off a little bit.”
talkSPORT will bring you live commentary of Tyson Fury vs Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday, December 21 with our coverage kicking off from 7.30pm
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