Ex-world champ slams Tyson Fury & claims Oleksandr Usyk fight will end in controversy Associated PressFormer cruiserweight world champion, Johnny Nelson, has hit back at Tyson Fury\u2019s claims that he \u201cgot bashed\u201d after stepping up to heavyweight, insisting that \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 will have \u201cpoints taken away from him\u201d against Oleksandr Usyk in what he believes will be a controversial fight. Fury and Usyk go head-to-head on Saturday, May 18 for the right to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. The fight is arguably the biggest boxing event of the year, but Nelson believes that fans are in store for a controversial ending to the bout. \u201cI think the fight is going to end in controversy, I think it\u2019s written on the wall,\u201d he told Dexerto on behalf of BetVictor. \u201cTyson Fury has openly admitted, he acknowledged when he used the elbow with [Francis] Ngannou. We\u2019ve seen Tyson Fury use the elbow, use a forearm, use whatever dark arts he can get away with in a fight. \u201cThat\u2019s what he\u2019s instinctively used and that\u2019s what, [Deontay] Wilder was complaining about it, they\u2019ve all [his previous opponents] complained about it. He does it, he gets away with it.\u201d Nelson insisted that Usyk\u2019s ability to put fighters under intense pressure will cause Fury to resort to the so-called \u201cdark arts\u201d of boxing. \u201cWe can go all the way back in his career,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve seen that if he\u2019s put under pressure by somebody that knows how to put him under pressure, as in, Usyk, who is very good at putting someone under pressure, making them work desperately at a pace that they don\u2019t want to work \u2013 he will then revert back to type. That\u2019s what will happen. \u201cNow, I use the example of Ricky Hatton against Floyd Mayweather. Ricky Hatton blamed the referee for not letting them just get on with the fight. The referee made him box clean because Mayweather and his team complained about him holding down and everything. \u201cIf Usyk\u2019s people know what they\u2019re doing, they will go to the officials and referee, the judges and everybody, saying this is what he [Fury] does. Make sure he does the right thing. \u201cAnd if the referee and the judges do their job, then that\u2019s what will happen and then Tyson\u2019s going to have to box clean and it\u2019s going to have to be skill against skill. \u201cAnd Tyson will only get to that point if the fight is getting uncomfortable for him, if he\u2019s not happy with how it\u2019s going, that\u2019s when it becomes skill against skill.\u201d \u201cSo this is why I say this will be a controversial points win,\u201d he continued. \u201cI think both fighters are slippery enough and skilled enough to not get knocked out. Do they hit hard enough? Tyson does, he hits harder than Usyk, but it\u2019s about skill. \u201cAnd so and with that kind of mindset I say there\u2019s going to be a controversial ending to this fight. Tyson Fury may get the decision and not deserve it. Or Tyson Fury will not get the decision and think he deserved it. He\u2019ll get points taken away from him \u2013 this is what I expect.\u201d Tyson Fury could \u201cdisappear\u201d if he loses to Oleksandr Usyk Whoever wins the fight will walk away as the first undisputed heavyweight world champion of the world since Lennox Lewis achieved the feat in 1999. When asked what the outcome of the fight could mean for the division and the future of each fighter, Nelson made it clear that a loss for Fury could signal the end of The Gyspy King\u2019s time in the ring. \u201cIf Tyson Fury loses badly,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what the promoters say, it doesn\u2019t matter how much money they throw on the table, it doesn\u2019t matter what his team has done, what anybody says \u2013 Tyson Fury will mentally not be able to get over getting beaten by this \u2018short, jumped up, gapped teeth cruiserweight\u2019. \u201cSo he himself will struggle to deal with it. And that will hurt him, it\u2019ll destroy him. Because you see what kind of fighter he is, you see he wears his heart on his sleeve. That\u2019s who he is. And so they\u2019ll try and spin it. They\u2019ll try and dress it up. \u201cThey have no control over Tyson fury. Tyson is the boss of all that squad. And so if he loses bad, don\u2019t be surprised if Tyson fury walks away and he disappears, don\u2019t be surprised.\u201d Tyson Fury: Johnny Nelson \u201cgot bashed\u201d at heavyweight Fury, never one to shy away from controversy, launched into a passionate rant on the history of heavyweight boxing and how size matters in the division. The 35-year-old mentioned Nelson by name, claiming that the former cruiserweight \u201cgot \u201cbashed\u201d when he stepped up to heavyweight. Nelson, although agreeing with Fury\u2019s overall point, did not entirely see eye-to-eye with the WBC champion after finding out about the claims being made. \u201cI was actually on holiday in St Lucia and I got a few phone calls telling me that I got mentioned,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cFactually, Tyson Fury is a boxing historian. And I love that. But factually, he was actually wrong. \u201cI was the cruiserweight stepping up and fighting heavyweights and I didn\u2019t get \u2018bashed\u2019 against every heavyweight I went in against. \u201cI won some obscure silly heavyweight title down in Australia. So I beat heavyweights. He never said anything I didn\u2019t say myself. \u201cI said that a top cruiserweight can beat most heavyweights. It\u2019s just the top heavyweights you can\u2019t beat because you\u2019re giving away far too much. Either weight, height, reach, power or something else. So top cruiserweights will beat most heavyweights until you get to the top. \u201cSo he didn\u2019t say anything I have not said myself, because I know that. If I could step up to heavyweight and be a fully-fledged heavyweight, I would have done. \u201cI was a cruiserweight king and I knew I was. I was the boss of my palace. As a world heavyweight champion, that wasn\u2019t my palace.\u201d Fight week for Fury vs Usyk has already begun in controversial style. Tyson\u2019s father, John Fury, headbutted a member of the Ukrainian\u2019s team in a crowded hotel lobby on Monday, May 13. Fury Sr was labeled a \u201cclown\u201d by former world boxing champion Carl Froch for his behavior. For all the biggest results and upcoming fights this year, check out Dexerto\u2019s 2024 boxing schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ex-world champ slams Tyson Fury & claims Oleksandr Usyk fight will end in controversy Associated PressFormer cruiserweight world champion, Johnny Nelson, has hit back at Tyson Fury\u2019s claims that he \u201cgot bashed\u201d after stepping up to heavyweight, insisting that \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 will have \u201cpoints taken away from him\u201d against Oleksandr Usyk in what he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}