MEET the Jersey fitness coach who beat Oleksandr Usyk and thinks he knows where Tyson Fury went wrong.
Former Polish boxer Lukasz Wawrzyczek believes he has figured out how to overcome the “much bigger” Usyk in the final round of their close fight.
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And the 40-year-old insists Fury got his tactics wrong when the Brit lost the undisputed heavyweight title fight to the Ukrainian last weekend.
Wawrzyczek switched to the fitness game after leaving the ring 10 years ago following 220 amateur fights and 20 wins in 26 professional fights.
He then moved to Jersey in the Channel Islands in 2015.
The former welterweight vividly remembers defeating Usyk, who was then a middleweight at age 18, via a three-round points decision at amateur level two decades ago.
He also explained the advice he would have given the Gypsy King for his epic showdown with 37-year-old Usyk in Saudi Arabia – a message that presumably applies equally to the rematch planned for later this year.
Wawrzyczek told the BBC from his own encounter: “He was very light and had a very good technique, but I was better.
“From beginning to end I was the person moving forward. I think this is the clue to winning with left-handed boxers.
“He was obviously already very good at defense. However, in that third round, everything I could leave, I left in the ring.”
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Wawrzyczek then laid out his words of wisdom for 6ft 9ins Fury.
He said: “If you are fighting a southpaw you have to attack him, you cannot give him space to win.
“He [Fury] it was [going] a little behind and that’s why I think he lost the fight.
“My strategy if I were training Tyson Fury would be very similar to the situation Anthony Joshua had in the fight against Usyk.
“He did a round like that and won, but he stopped attacking him, so he lost.
“Tyson Fury is huge, he’s huge, he’s much bigger than Usyk, so he could be that person.”
Despite all the love for the resurgent AJ… these two are head, shoulders and fists ahead of everyone else
OLEKSANDR USYK is the deserved and undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, writes Wally Downes Jr.
A big gun doesn’t always beat a big gun, not when David has the weight of a beleaguered nation on his shoulders and is able to land every countryman with every blow.
Usyk did what Usyk does, he moved magnificently, countered and outclassed his taller, heavier opponent.
Somehow, he manages to use every physical disadvantage to his advantage.
But what the hell is Fury doing waking up in round nine?
Why does a father of eight with £300 million in the bank, three best-selling books and a Netflix series go into the deep end?
Britain is not reacting to Putin’s army, Morecambe is not occupied.
So when the 35-year-old’s senses are scrambled, when the screen calls to him, when he’s so desperate not to get knocked down that he’s willing to jump through every rope like a drunk, when he eventually has to fall into a corner, Why doesn’t he just stay down?
He earned the right to surrender, as did his millions.
The guts, guts, and bloody mentality it took to walk off that deck, with a broken nose and shattered ego, is not comprehensible to us mortals.
Fury said he felt he won the fight, but it was too worthy to call it robbery or corruption. No doubt your father will tarnish that decency when you read this.
The rematch will be excellent.
Because for all the love we have for the resurgent Anthony Joshua – who was ringside at that iconic event – these two polar opposite men are head, shoulders, fists, hearts and brains ahead of everyone else.
There are the first two, then there is a void and then there is the rest.
Read the verdict on Wally’s big fight in full here…
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