Matchroom Boxing chairman Eddie Hearn is selecting Tyson Fury to even the collection towards Oleksandr Usyk.
Seven months faraway from their critically acclaimed conflict within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the 2 heavyweight warriors will run it again this Saturday night time, December 21, in one of the vital anticipated rematches in fashionable boxing historical past.
In Could, Usyk got here out on high, scoring a intently contested cut up resolution win over ‘The Gyspy King’ to develop into boxing’s first undisputed heavyweight world champion in additional than twenty years.
Because it stands, the Ukrainian is favored to come back out on high as soon as once more with DraftKings sportsbook itemizing him as a -150 favourite versus Fury who’s presently sitting as a +120 underdog.
Eddie Hearn expects huge issues from Fury on Combat night time
Nonetheless, not everybody agrees with the road. Specifically, British boxing promotion Eddie Hearn. Talking with TNT Sports activities, Hearn actually believes that Fury will ship one thing outstanding in Riyadh.
“Discuss how good he’s, and I imply, persons are feeding him with traces, however he’s nonetheless saying, ‘I’ll cease him. Sure, I’m the perfect. Sure, I’m.’ You understand, and I’ve probably not seen that earlier than,” Hearn stated. “So now Fury appears calm, he appears concern… I’m altering my thoughts. I’m going to go for Tyson Fury. And I simply really feel like this combat is about extraordinary issues. Usyk all the time does extraordinary issues, however each from time to time, Fury is able to probably the most outstanding issues.”
Clearly, Hearn has lots of religion in how Fury will reply to the primary defeat of his profession.
