Tyson Fury Bio: age, height, weight class, Stats, Fights Records
— The rematch is days away. Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury will go at it again on Saturday night in Saudi Arabia.
Usyk won a split decision the first time and became boxing’s first undisputed heavyweight champion in 24 years. Since then, Usyk gave up the IBF title now held by Daniel Dubois.
So, Usyk's WBC, WBA and WBO belts will be on the line at Kingdom Arena — the same Riyadh venue that hosted the first meeting in May.
Usyk became the first undisputed heavyweight champion of boxing's four-belt era when he took a split decision over Fury in May. With the win, Usyk added Fury's WBC championship to his own IBF, WBA and WBO titles.
The feat of going undisputed was a repeat of what Usyk had already achieved earlier in his career at cruiserweight before moving to boxing's glamor division to chase further glory.
The loss was the first of Fury's career and came after he started well in the fight only for Fury to turn the tables and start to land heavy shots that repeatedly had Fury on his heels.
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Tyson Fury Fight records
Tyson Fury is 34-1-1, with 24 wins by knockout.
Fury is the former lineal and unified heavyweight champion, having first won the IBF and WBO titles in 2015 with a unanimous decision victory over Wladimir Klitschko. In 2020, Fury won the WBC heavyweight title with a knockout win over Deontay Wilder and would go on to defend the belt three times before losing to Usyk.
Fury is ranked No. 2 at heavyweight by ESPN and is the WBC and WBO's top-ranked heavyweight contender.
Tyson Fury reacts during his fight against Oleksandr Usyk at Kingdom Arena, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Sunday, May 19, 2024.
Tyson Fury age, height, weight class
Tyson Fury is 36 years old and stands at 6-9 with an 85-inch reach.
Fury is a career-long heavyweight, and across his past four fights has weighed in at an average of just above 268 pounds. Fury weighed in at 262 pounds for the first Usyk fight, the lightest he'd weighed ahead of a bout since 2019.
Tyson Fury fight stats
Tyson Fury has a plus-minus of 1.3, comparatively lower than other top heavyweights. Despite that, he gets hit far less often than his divisional counterparts, with his opponents connecting on just 7.2 total punches and five power punches per round.
Fury connects on 12.6 punches per round at a 28.3% clip, while landing 8.4 power punches per round at a 41.4% clip.
He throws an average of 44.5 punches per round, behind only Usyk among top-ranked heavyweights, with 20.3 power punches per round.
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