Oleksandr Usyk laughed off Tyson Fury’s claims that he’s just a "pumped-up middleweight" and scoffed at any idea that he and the Gypsy King won’t meet.
Fury, who said he'd fight Dereck Chisora last week, only to claim he'd retired again two days later, rubbished suggestions in February that Usyk would be a more difficult opponent than Deontay Wilder.
Fury said: “Hell no. Are you joking? You’ve got the most powerful in the history of our sport [Wilder] and what’s Usyk going to do? Tip, tip, tip, tip tip… Tap dance around the ring and run away? He didn’t do any damage at all to Anthony Joshua and definitely ain't doing damage to me. I'll obliterate him. He’s a cruiserweight. He’s a middleweight, a pumped-up middleweight! He was a middleweight in the amateurs, 75kg. I was a super-heavyweight at 11 years old.”
