Tyson Fury – Oleksandr Usyk title fight closing as pick ‘Em as betting odds tumble ahead of May bout
Ahead of May’s massive heavyweight championship unification bout between the unbeaten duo of titleholders, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk, odds are tumbling on the pair’s championship showdown in May – in what promises to be one of the biggest title fights in the history of professional boxing.
Fury, the current undisputed WBC heavyweight champion, has been sidelined from the ring since he headlined a pay-per-view card in August of last year, landing a close, controversial split decision win over former UFC heavyweight titleholder, Francis Ngannou in the pair’s grudge match.
As for Usyk, the Ukraine favorite looks to add the WBC championship belt to an already-gleaming trophy cabinet, which contains WBA, WBO, IBF, and IBF spoils – in his May unification clash with Fury.
Tyson Fury – Oleksandr Usyk closing as pick ’em fight ahead of May
And with the weeks tumbling down to their title fight in Saudi Arabia, fans looking for the best Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk betting odds should act fast – with the pair respectively currently drawing odds of -115 and -110 ahead of their unification championship battle.
Boasting an unbeaten 34-0-1 professional record, prior to Fury’s decision win over Ngannou in the Middle East, the Morecambe native turned in successive knockout wins over both Derek Chisora, and Dillian Whyte in the pair’s WBC championship rematches.
Winning WBC heavyweight spoils in a rematch win over Tuscaloosa knockout artist, Deontay Wilder back in 2020 in his thirteenth professional victory, British heavyweight, Fury would turn in a subsequent trilogy fight knockout win over the American to retain the title.
Moving to the heavyweight limit following impressive success at the cruiserweight class back in 2020, Usyk would beat the above-mentioned, Chisora, before landing back-to-back championship fight wins over recent big-winner, Anthony Joshua – before landing another stoppage win over British challenger, Daniel Dubois.
Reacting to the rescheduling of their title fight to May following an initially planned title unification bout back in February was shelved due to a cut suffered by Fury, Usyk claimed he was happy to see the bout reworked.
“It’s a man who has my fourth belt,” Oleksandr Usyk told of Tyson Fury. “It’s the man who helped me become famous a lot. Because, we all people, must love friends, [people who are] not friends, acquaintances, all people., It’s great when you are polite, not dirty.”
Issuing a rather stark warning of his own ahead of his title fight with Usyk, Fury vowed to land a decisive knockout win over the unbeaten Ukrainian.
“I’m going to bust him up,” Tyson Fury explained. “Sausage. Ugly little man. Rabbit. Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run. You know what’s coming? You’re getting smashes to pieces, sausage. You’re fighting the best British heavyweight there’s ever been.
“You’ve beaten the rest of them, but you haven’t beaten Tyson Fury, sausage,” Fury said. “You can never beat me. If you beat me in your dreams, you better wake up and apologize. I stole that from Muhammad Ali, I apologize. When you sleep at night, ugly little man, you’re going to think of me for the next eight weeks. I’m going to punch your face in, you ugly little man.”
