As Tyson Fury gets ready to unretire once more and continue his heavyweight run, he tells Ring Magazine that despite his two losses to Oleksandr Usyk, it’ll be Usyk who will come crawling back to him in hopes of making a third fight before the year is out. Fury reasons that he has the financial backing and is the biggest name opponent out there for Usyk, so it’s the most logical choice for the Ukrainian. Here’s some excerpts with the full video clip at the top!
Fury on wanting a third shot at Usyk
“Listen, at the end of the year he’ll be begging me for a third fight. It’s not me wanting a fight with him — he’ll be begging me to do a fight with him, begging me. You watch. You heard it here first.
“Money. I’m the cash cow. Top of the tree with the biggest broadcaster on earth behind me, not only for boxing, reality TV and documentaries. I’m their golden child. Where else is he going to go? Who is he going to fight? Fight hard for no money? That sounds really clever to do.”
On how he’ll feel if he doesn’t get a third fight
“Yeah, I’m not bothered. I’m over it. I don’t care. Here’s the thing, I was very bitter with boxing for a long time. Listen, I’ll honestly think I’ll take to my grave I think I won both of them fights. I’m not just saying it, I thought I won both fights. But like I always say…at the end of the day I didn’t get the decisions, so I move on. But looking back at it now, just shortly after the event, like a couple months, here’s what I’ve come up with…Oleksandr is a good, God-fearing Christian man, family man. So, it’s good.
“But I suppose he got his decisions — God decided he’s going to give him them fights. He took a lot away from [Usyk]. He took his father away. He doesn’t have his dad to celebrate with and I have mine at the end of a call at any time. Isn’t that something? So that just made me like move on from it completely. I just thought ‘this poor fella, he won all them fights and he’s won undisputed, and the most important thing to him — to phone his dad or give him a hug or whatever — he can’t do that and I can.’ So I’m blessed, truly blessed. So that’s why I let it go.”