The prelude to any Tony Bellew fight is a familiar ritual. It is always the Bomber contra mundum. Whether it’s the animosity he likes to foster between himself and an opponent, or pig headed stubbornness to acknowledge the odds, he thrives on a war mentality.
DAZN WILL SHOW THE FIGHT EXCLUSIVELY IN JAPAN, CANADA, USA, GERMANY, AUSTRIA, ITALY AND NON-EXCLUSIVELY IN SWITZERLAND – Saturday, November 10 at 1 PM ET/10AM PT.
This Saturday night Tony Bellew and Oleksandr Usyk meet for all the marbles live on Sky Sports Box Office and DAZN in USA, at the Manchester Arena.
Tony Bellew On Going Eye-To-Eye With Oleksandr Usyk At Today’s Weigh-In: It’s Like Two Maniacs Looking At Each Other
The hard work has evidently been done in the gym, with both Oleksandr Usyk and Tony Bellew looking in absolutely great shape at today’s official weigh-in – Usyk, the four-belt cruiserweight king tipping-in at 198.4 pounds and challenger Bellew coming in at 199.4 – and now we await a great fight.
Tony Bellew: I’m Not Scared Of Anyone, Certainly Not Usyk
Rival cruiserweights Oleksandr Usyk and Tony Bellew engaged in quite the stare-down in mid-ring a while before the fantastic Anthony Joshua-Alexander Povetkin fight broke out.
Undisputed Cruiserweight World Champion Oleksandr Usyk will defend his WBC, IBF, WBA, WBO and Ring Magazine belts against Tony Bellew at Manchester Arena on November 10, live on Sky Sports Box Office in the UK and DAZN in the US.
Bookies give Usyk an implied 94% chance of winning, but punters are backing Bellew.
Tony Bellew has opened as a sizable underdog at the bookmakers, following reports that a fight is edging closer.
While the hype seems to have begun in earnest for a heavyweight blockbuster between reigning and undefeated WBC king Deontay Wilder and reigning and unbeaten lineal king Tyson Fury, one man has stated flat out that the fight will end in short-order in favour of “The Bronze Bomber” as Fury is “no way ready” to tackle the 40-0(39) KO King.
Tony Bellew says he “dares to be great,” and that the way he can get there is with a win over current four-belt cruiserweight king and pound-for-pound entrant Oleksandr Usyk.
Tony Bellew has made up his mind: he aims to go out in a blaze of glory in a fight that he fully acknowledges will be the toughest of his entire career (barring the light-heavyweight loss he suffered to Adonis Stevenson, back when, in the words of his promoter Eddie Hearn, Bellew was “like a skeleton”).