- Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk both did public workouts on Wednesday night
- Fury used few words, but still sent an ominous message to his heavyweight rival
The venue in Arabia was a quadrant of a theme park devoted to Egypt in all the pyramids and sphinxes of its ancient glory.
A hot night in the old town? It might as well have been in the Arctic circle.
Both Tyson Fury and world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk were covered up to the eyeballs for the public workouts which are part of the ritual run up to the title fight on Saturday night.
Fury thought about putting on the gloves for a little pad work for the benefit of the media scrum.
He zipped on a thick leather jacket instead, waved his arms a bit and restricted his response to questions about the coming fight to saying: ‘Pain. Damage. Serious hurt,’ before heading for a warm room.
Usyk entered to the opening strains of the Titanic theme – who’s going under? – followed by rousing, powerful martial choruses from his homeland.
Tyson Fury vowed to inflict ‘serious hurt’ on Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch on Saturday night
Usyk appeared unfazed as he went through his usual routine at his public workout
In reply to Fury he shrugged: ‘OK.’ Then he roared: ‘Glory to Ukraine.’
Enough said for a night like this.
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