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Lennox Lewis thinks Tyson Fury will have to “to do a lot more” to beat Oleksandr Usyk in their heavyweight rematch on 21 December.<\/b><\/p>\n
Fury, 36, will be seeking revenge against unified champion Usyk having lost their first encounter in May by split decision.<\/a><\/p>\n Lewis, a former undisputed heavyweight champion, is backing Fury to beat his rival if he learns from his mistakes in the first fight.<\/p>\n “I think Fury learnt what he needs to do next time because he didn’t do enough. He needs to do a lot more. I like him a bit heavier for his fights and not moving around as much,” Lewis told the 5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce podcast.<\/a><\/p>\n “He has to conquer his own self first. He’s been through these things before so I think he can do it because he knows what to do.<\/p>\n “He’s been at lows before and at highs before. He’s down here right now, he knows how to get back up here. He just needs to put in the work.”<\/p>\n Before 37-year-old Usyk defeated Fury, British fighter Lewis was the last man to become reigning undisputed heavyweight champion in 1999.<\/p>\n The Briton defeated Evander Holyfield for the title, winning in a rematch after their draw earlier that year.<\/p>\n Lewis competed in three key rematches in his career. He twice came back to win after losing a first bout, once to Hasim Rahman in 2001 and once to Oliver McCall, who beat him in 1994 before folding to defeat in 1997.<\/p>\n Now 59, Lewis says he was driven by “revenge” in those contests and says Fury will be going through the same thing after the first loss of his career.<\/p>\n “Every day I woke up training for this person, ready for this person, thinking about them the whole day. I took it real serious,” Lewis said.<\/p>\n “Wake up every day to their picture. Stick it on the wall. And be thinking about them all the time. It\u2019s a mental war you\u2019re going in against.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n