TYSON FURY has been getting “TURNED OVER” by his sparring partners just weeks before his historic showdown with Oleksandr Usyk, it’s been sensationally claimed.
The Gypsy King will finally throw down with the slick southpaw for all the heavyweight marbles in Saudi Arabia on February 17.
Fury, 35, jetted out to The Kingdom with his team at the start of the month to continue preparations for the biggest fight of his life away from the distractions of home.
But according to boxing pundit Johnny Nelson, his carefully selected group of sparring partners have been giving him a pasting.
The former WBO cruiserweight champion told talkSPORT: “I’m hearing rumours of what’s happening in camp – I’m hearing that he’s getting turned over in the gym.
“So this thing about appetite when he’s in the gym, I mean, he got shown his a***.
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“I’m hearing these things and I’m thinking has he taken his eye off the ball, or has time caught up with him?”
Nelson reckons Fury’s lacklustre display against former UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou is a testament to his belief that the WBC champ is no longer as focused as he once was.
He continued: “In regards to his last fight, I put that down to him disrespecting the man in front of him.
“And if you’re led to believe he had the best training camp, his legs had gone.”
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Nelson believes the Fury of old would run through former pound-for-pound king Usyk but has serious concerns ahead of February’s fisticuffs.
He said: “I’d expect Tyson Fury to beat Oleksandr Usyk, but the Tyson Fury who boxed Ngannou in his last fight gets knocked out.
“If that Tyson Fury turns up then it’s done, it’s over.
“The reason why I said ‘the legs are gone’ line is that I remember Tony Bellew saying it about David Haye and at first I was like, ‘What?’, but when I saw it I knew what he was talking about.
“I might be saying something that might not be too popular – I expect him to win, I just think he dropped the ball in the last fight.
“These rumours I’m hearing, I hope they’re just rumours set about by him.”
Reports came out earlier this month that Fury had been dropped by former IBF cruiserweight champ Jai Opetaia during the Aussie’s brief stint in camp, a claim which has been vehemently denied.
And Fury’s good pal and training partner Joseph Parker has hit out at the rumours, telling Boxing King Media: “Sparring is sparring but a lot of people will make up stories.
“Nobody really knows what happens in sparring, only Tyson’s team know and Jai Opetaia knows.
“I think that he flew back home because he has got sparring that he wanted to do back home and Tyson is sparring who he is sparring.
“Only they know what happened and only they have the proof.
“So I think all of these [rumours] are just stories from people who think they know what happened, but no one knows.
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“I know that Tyson never got dropped and I want to go online and say, ‘Hey guys, he didn’t’.
“But I don’t want to be a part of that, I just want to save my energy for my fight.”
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
