{"id":303825,"date":"2025-12-07T20:20:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303825\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:20:11","slug":"tyson-fury-rates-the-power-of-usyk-and-deontay-wilder-as-usyk-offers-bronze-bomber-title-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/303825\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury rates the power of Usyk and Deontay Wilder as Usyk offers ‘Bronze Bomber’ title shot"},"content":{"rendered":"

They are two contrasting heavyweights \u2014 in style, skill and power \u2014 and Tyson Fury<\/a> has faced them a combined five times.<\/p>\n

After bamboozling Wladimir Klitschko in Germany to claim the lineal heavyweight championship and three world titles, Fury\u2019s subsequent fall from grace led to an unlikely resurgence in which both Deontay Wilder<\/a> and Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> played pivotal roles.<\/p>\n

His comeback, launched with the backing of promoter Frank Warren, didn\u2019t begin explosively but was steady enough through wins over Sefer Seferi and Francesco Pianeta. Then, in December 2018, Fury chose to gamble against WBC heavyweight champion Wilder, the division\u2019s most destructive puncher in decades.<\/p>\n

The \u201cGypsy King\u201d climbed off the brink of defeat to earn a draw in their first fight, dismantled Wilder\u2019s greatest asset in the rematch and stopped him, and then shared a dramatic, knockdown-laden trilogy bout that would hold its own in any era<\/a>.<\/p>\n

From a 6ft 6ins roaring American with dynamite in his right hand, Fury then moved on to the 6ft 3ins southpaw mastery of Oleksandr Usyk. The former undisputed cruiserweight champion brought his wizardry to heavyweight, beating Derek Chisora, Anthony Joshua<\/a>, Daniel Dubois<\/a> and eventually Tyson Fury.<\/p>\n

Fury\u2019s bid to become the first undisputed heavyweight king since Lennox Lewis<\/a> was halted by a masterclass from Usyk in May 2024 \u2014 a performance highlighted by a round-nine assault that came close to stopping the 6ft 9ins Brit.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BoxNation months after the loss<\/a>, Fury, 34-2-1 (24 KOs), was asked about Usyk\u2019s punching power. And while he didn\u2019t place the Ukrainian on Wilder\u2019s level, he offered a measured assessment.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s not like a feather duster puncher but he\u2019s not like a Wilder puncher. Obviously, he\u2019s got his knockouts but I wouldn\u2019t say he\u2019s the biggest puncher I\u2019ve ever faced but I wouldn\u2019t say he\u2019s the lightest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Usyk, 24-0 (15 KOs), may soon learn how Wilder\u2019s power feels after calling out \u201cThe Bronze Bomber\u201d for a title fight in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They are two contrasting heavyweights \u2014 in style, skill and power \u2014 and Tyson Fury has faced them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-303825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}