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00:03 The winner of tomorrow's fight will
00:05 be the first undisputed heavyweight champion
00:07 of the world since Lennox Lewis in 2000.
00:11 It is a monumental fight on Saturday afternoon.
00:15 How do you explain all the hype and the excitement
00:19 for Fury versus Usyk?
00:22 Yeah, this one is legitimately-- and as somebody
00:25 who covers boxing and loves it as an art form,
00:28 even though politically, there's a lot that goes on there.
00:31 This is one of those fights that actually is
00:34 warranting reaching the masses.
00:36 It's a legitimate 50-50 high profile fight
00:39 because betting odds are all over the place in terms
00:41 of who's the favorite.
00:42 There was a time this week where one prominent sportsbook
00:47 had Tyson Fury listed at minus 120,
00:49 and the other had Tyson Fury listed at minus 108.
00:53 Minus 108, he was a slight dog because Usyk was minus 114.
00:57 And the one where he was the favorite, Usyk, was plus 100.
01:00 So this is where it's been, like, all over the place
01:03 with this fight.
01:04 And this is also something that's
01:05 been a couple of years in the making
01:07 because there's been back and forth, when is
01:09 this fight going to take place?
01:11 And we finally had a date.
01:12 It was December.
01:14 And in October, Tyson Fury decided
01:17 to fight Francis Ngannou and didn't take the fight seriously
01:20 at all.
01:21 I don't care what people have to say,
01:23 particularly diehard MMA fans who
01:25 want to give Francis Ngannou a lot of credit.
01:27 He deserves some.
01:28 But Tyson Fury visibly showed up overweight for that fight,
01:32 like, more than usual.
01:33 Did it train properly, it looked like.
01:35 He didn't have his wind completely.
01:36 And he just put on an embarrassing performance.
01:40 And then the fight with Usyk got pushed back to February.
01:42 And then there was an injury, so it
01:44 got pushed back again to May.
01:45 Now we're finally here.
01:46 We're finally getting it.
01:47 And I can't wait because we don't
01:49 get a lot of high-profile 50/50 fights like this
01:51 over the course of a year.
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