Interim WBC featherweight champion Sergiy Bogachuk (24-1, 23 KOs) shared his thoughts on the fight between WBA, WBO, IBO and IBF heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (21-0, 14 KOs) and WBC titleholder Tyson Fury (34-0-1, 24 KOs).
The fight will take place tomorrow, May 18, in Saudi Arabia.
- Many experts, former champions say that Fury to defeat Oleksandr Usyk needs to put pressure on Oleksandr Usyk, to hang on him. How do you see the possible development of events of this fight?
- I believe that these experts are wrong. Usyk is used to this kind of work - when they put pressure on him. Everyone wants to do this job: to pressurize, to pressure, to hang on him, to torture him, to stop him. Everybody wants to do this job, but nobody has succeeded yet.
Usyk knows how to box with such boxers. If Fury does the job - I don't think he will beat Usyk.
- If you take all the opponents in Usyk's career, is Fury one of the three strongest?
- Yes, of course. He is one of Usyk's best opponents. He is a very good boxer, very cunning, very unconventional. Of course, it will be a very big test for Usyk.
- How should he act in the ring against a boxer of such an unusual style as Fury?
- I think that Usyk just needs to do his job. To be ready as he was ready for the fight with Gassiev. Or even better. And then everything will work out. Just do his job.
- And one more thing. For the last six months, or even more, the British have been saying that the torso is Usyk's weak point. They recall old knockdowns from the torso, they show videos from the fight against Dubois. How close to the truth do you think this is?
- Let's start with the fact that the torso is a weak spot for all boxers. If you don't protect your torso, you can beat up any boxer. Even if you have normal abs, you can break ribs, traumatize the torso very badly.
Take even Mexicans, who hold such combinations on the head, but they don't hold the torso. Clear punches to the torso are very dangerous.
