Former world champion in the heavyweight division (over 90.7 kg) American Hasim Rahman
interview told a local news portal about his vision of the situation with top heavyweight boxers.
Rahman believes that if Ukrainian unified champion Oleksandr Usyk (19-0, 13 KOs) wins in a rematch over former British champion Anthony Joshua (24-2, 22 KOs), WBC title holder Briton Tyson Fury (32-0-1 , 23 KOs) will end his professional career
Tyson Fury knocked out Dillian Whyte in front of 94,000 people. It was incredible. He said he was ending his career. Do you believe that or do you think he’s expecting the winner of the Joshua-Usyk rematch, whoever he turns out to be?
– I think it’s 50/50. I think he will fight Joshua. But I don’t think he will fight Usyk.
– So, if Usyk wins, then Tyson will leave?
Yes, he will leave. He doesn’t want to fight Usyk.
– Why is that?
– Because Usyk is a mountain of problems that Tyson does not want. Tyson is a boxer. He likes to be a boxer, a dodgy fighter. He likes to wear heavyweights. He won’t do that to Usyk. It will be the other way around. It will be the opposite. So I think he doesn’t want that kind of problem. He wants an unsullied legacy, and I think Usyk will break that.
– Are you saying that you believe that Usyk is the best heavyweight in the world right now?
“I don’t say that. I say I think he can beat Tyson Fury. But I think he can lose to Deontay Wilder.
— Mustache?
– Yes.
Styles make fights.
Styles make fights. And I think that boxing is the worst style for Tyson Fury. Fury hits big broilers, big heavyweights. Then he can be a boxer, and then he can knock out, because he also has a punch. But the boxer will exhaust him. He will make Tyson Fury for him. Usyk will see Tyson Fury retire.
Earlier it became known that Fury was negotiating a comeback, but not against the winner of the battle between Usyk and Joshua.
