Derek Chisora questions Tyson Fury's training and relationship with SugarHill as he makes Oleksandr Usyk KO prediction

10/09/2024 14:04

Derek Chisora thinks Tyson Fury will get knocked out when he rematches Oleksandr Usyk.

'The Gypsy King' started well before getting badly rocked and dropped en route to a split decision defeat when he fought Usyk for all the heavyweight belts earlier this year.

Fury will try to avenge his lone boxing loss in Saudi Arabia on December 21.

Chisora has fought – and lost – against Fury three times. The two Englishmen have formed a friendship through the years, but 'Del Boy' thinks his pal will come unstuck against the Ukrainian again.

The man who boxed Usyk in his second fight at heavyweight in 2020 pointed to issues in Fury's camp as a potential reason he struggled in his last fight.

“I don’t think Tyson was 100 per cent when he walked into that ring," Chisora said on the latest episode of the talkBOXING podcast.

“He had a massive cut, he didn’t wanna get fined for missing the fight.

“He didn’t spar the way he wanted to spar, and he was under-prepared, under-prepared for that fight.

“The confidence was not there. And you’ve got to realise, he was mucking around for the first four or five rounds because the confidence was not there."

Chisora predicts Fury will get stopped in his rematch with Usyk.

The 40-year-old believes there's an issue with Fury's trainer, SugarHill, who guided him to famous wins over Deontay Wilder,Dillian Whyte, and even Chisora himself.

He added: “I think Usyk stops him this time."

“Him and SugarHill Steward – that relationship is kind of dying down.

"Because when they got together, they were listening to each other."

Chisora thinks Fury was ignoring his head coach during the loss to Usyk and insists it created 'panic' in his corner in between rounds.

“They were all in panic," he said about Fury's training team.

“It was not because there was loads of voices, they were all in panic.

“They knew they were losing the fight so they figured they had to start saying something because he was not listening to SugarHill and he was not listening to his dad.”