Tyson Fury has unfinished business with Oleksandr Usyk.
The Brit faced his first professional loss at the hands of the Ukrainian back in May of this year when they battled it out to crown the division’s first undisputed champion since Lennox Lewis.
Usyk’s split decision win, swung in his favour by a thrilling ninth round in which Fury looked out on his feet, saw the 37-year-old Olympic Gold Medalist take home all four titles. He would later vacate the IBF belt – which was given to and defended by Daniel Dubois – to honour Fury’s right to a rematch.
‘The Gypsy King’ is wildly confident of victory this time around and told the Undisputed channel he feels that he did enough to win the first fight despite not getting the nod on the scorecards. He is, however, embracing the challenger mindset and believes that spells trouble for the unified champ.
“I can’t wait for the challenge and for the first time in years I’m going in there as a challenger not a champion. I believe I’m better as a challenger always because I’ve got a goal of achieving something again and it’s giving me a fire underneath me, where before I was thinking do I really want to be doing this? Or this is easy. Now I’ve got a good test so I can grit my teeth, bite down on my gumshield and get stuck in.”
Fury, 36, then said that, like his rivalry with Deontay Wilder, he believes there will be a trilogy fight following the rematch.
“I think this will be one of the great trilogies, me and Usyk, like Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. Going back to them days. They were great fights and I believe when I beat him again I’ll definitely do a trilogy with him. 100%. Got to be. One each and then the trilogy.”
Fury has also left the door open to a fight with Anthony Joshua despite his recent knockout loss to Dubois, who will also be angling for a shot at the winner.
