TYSON FURY will have ‘too much mass’ for Oleksandr Usyk and should ‘ride off into the sunset’ if he becomes undisputed champion.
That is the view of American boxing legend and now pundit Andre Ward, who was ringside for Fury’s epic trilogy win over Deontay Wilder.
After the Gypsy King retained his WBC title, a unification with newly crowned WBA, IBF and WBO champ Usyk has been touted.
But Ward, who won belts at super-middleweight and light-heavy, insisted 19st 11lb Fury will be too big for Usyk.
The Ukrainian was just 14st 4lb for much of his career before rising to 15st 11lb for last month’s win over AJ.
Ward told Behind The Gloves: “He’s not going to beat Tyson Fury. Tyson Fury is just not some big lumbering guy. He’s skillful, he can fight.
“It’s just too much mass, I think, but Anthony Joshua has to fight Usyk in a rematch.”
Joshua, 31, and Fury, 33, were set to fight in the first-ever, four-belt undisputed fight in August.
But 35-year-old Wilder, who drew to Fury in 2018 but lost the rematch last year, prevented the unification by taking his right to a trilogy to arbitration.
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After he was successful, AJ was then ordered to face mandatory challenger Usyk, 34, and lost in late September.
The pair are now due to rematch after Joshua invoked his right to a rematch.
Now Fury is set to return against either Dillian Whyte, 33, or Otto Wallin, 30, with the winner of their October 30 fight becoming WBC mandatory.
It leaves his hopes of undisputed glory another hurdle away, but retired Ward, 37, backed him to one day reach that pinnacle, and then call it a day.
He said: “If successful, ride off into the sunset. He has nothing else left to prove.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
