Historic Heavyweight Title Fight: Fury vs. Usyk Showdown

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 The winner of tomorrow's fight will

00:05 be the first undisputed heavyweight champion

00:07 of the world since Lennox Lewis in 2000.

00:11 It is a monumental fight on Saturday afternoon.

00:15 How do you explain all the hype and the excitement

00:19 for Fury versus Usyk?

00:22 Yeah, this one is legitimately-- and as somebody

00:25 who covers boxing and loves it as an art form,

00:28 even though politically, there's a lot that goes on there.

00:31 This is one of those fights that actually is

00:34 warranting reaching the masses.

00:36 It's a legitimate 50-50 high profile fight

00:39 because betting odds are all over the place in terms

00:41 of who's the favorite.

00:42 There was a time this week where one prominent sportsbook

00:47 had Tyson Fury listed at minus 120,

00:49 and the other had Tyson Fury listed at minus 108.

00:53 Minus 108, he was a slight dog because Usyk was minus 114.

00:57 And the one where he was the favorite, Usyk, was plus 100.

01:00 So this is where it's been, like, all over the place

01:03 with this fight.

01:04 And this is also something that's

01:05 been a couple of years in the making

01:07 because there's been back and forth, when is

01:09 this fight going to take place?

01:11 And we finally had a date.

01:12 It was December.

01:14 And in October, Tyson Fury decided

01:17 to fight Francis Ngannou and didn't take the fight seriously

01:20 at all.

01:21 I don't care what people have to say,

01:23 particularly diehard MMA fans who

01:25 want to give Francis Ngannou a lot of credit.

01:27 He deserves some.

01:28 But Tyson Fury visibly showed up overweight for that fight,

01:32 like, more than usual.

01:33 Did it train properly, it looked like.

01:35 He didn't have his wind completely.

01:36 And he just put on an embarrassing performance.

01:40 And then the fight with Usyk got pushed back to February.

01:42 And then there was an injury, so it

01:44 got pushed back again to May.

01:45 Now we're finally here.

01:46 We're finally getting it.

01:47 And I can't wait because we don't

01:49 get a lot of high-profile 50/50 fights like this

01:51 over the course of a year.

01:53 (upbeat music)

01:56 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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