Malik Scott, coach of former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, believes that the unified champion Oleksandr Usyk you should meet with his boxer, and not wait Tyson Furywho currently holds the WBC belt.
Usyk had his last fight in August, when he outboxed Anthony Joshua in a rematch and retained his WBO, IBF and WBA titles. Fury is set to return to the ring on December 3rd in a trilogy with Derek Chisora. Usyk would like to fight Fury for the title of undisputed champion in the first quarter of 2023, and even set a March 4 deadline for such a meeting.
However, Makik Scott believes that Fury is too unreliable to wait, and no one knows what the Gypsy King might do next. Since April, Fury has retired and returned several times.
Wilder recently ended his one-year retirement. He returned to the ring for the first time since losing by knockout to Fury in their trilogy in October 2021. After that, Wilder knocked out Robert Helenius in the first round, and Scott believes that his ward puncher has returned to his former form.
āI think he should refrain from fighting Fury and wait for us, just fight us. First, because it is not known what Fury is going to do. Nobody knows,ā Scott told ES News in an interview.
āBesides, Iām just greedy, I like the position that my boyfriend Deontay is in right now - morally, physically, spiritually. Itās just that he is in a very dangerous shape now, and I want Usyk to fight the most dangerous fighter in the world. As I said, no one respects Usyk in the US as much as I do, but I also know that the one I train is the deadliest fighter in the history of the sport, āsaid Malik Scott.
