{"id":281547,"date":"2025-11-13T10:30:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281547\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T10:30:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T10:30:17","slug":"tyson-fury-sums-up-oleksandr-usyks-boxing-ability-in-3-words-as-he-targets-trilogy-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/281547\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury Sums Up Oleksandr Usyk’s Boxing Ability In 3 Words As He Targets Trilogy Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyson Fury<\/a> continues to chase a third fight with Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 was unbeaten the first time he fought Usyk back in May 2024. He was on a fine run as WBC champion that had seen him twice beat Deontay Wilder and draw once with the fearsome American puncher.<\/p>\n

He had also beaten Dillian Whyte, Otto Wallin and Derek Chisora, though many believe he was lucky to get away with a points victory after he took on former MMA champion and boxing novice Francis Ngannou.<\/p>\n

The first fight with Usyk saw him outboxed over 12, but also took a huge shot in the ninth that nearly sent him to the canvas. The rematch back in December 2024 saw Usyk again dominate with hand and feet and take a unanimous points win.<\/p>\n

That led Fury to announce his retirement back in January. In recent weeks, he has begun to talk about a trilogy with Usyk in April 2026,<\/a> though many fans question the need, given he was soundly beaten in the first two and is not getting any younger.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Boxing King Media<\/a>, Fury showed some rare humility when asked about the quality of the Ukrainian two-time undisputed heavyweight champion, branding him \u2018a special talent.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cUsyk\u2019s a special talent. He\u2019s a good boxer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many people had hoped that after the Usyk loss, Fury would finally sign a contract to fight long-time British rival Anthony Joshua,<\/a> who also suffered defeat last time out when he was knocked out by Daniel Dubois last September and has not yet returned to action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury continues to chase a third fight with Oleksandr Usyk in 2026. \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 was unbeaten…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-281547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}