‘It hasn’t healed properly’ – Tyson Fury warned cut will re-open against Oleksandr Usyk by veteran cutwoman

Veteran cutwoman, Sammy Morris, believes the gash below Tyson Fury’s right eye will plague him for the rest of his career.

‘The Gypsy King’ had 11 stitches put in just below his eyebrow after being caught by an elbow in sparring prior to the initially proposed February 17 date for his undisputed clash with Oleksandr Usyk.

Due to the severity of the cut, organisers had no option but to push the four-belt shootout back to May 18 to allow adequate time for Fury’s eye to heal.

However, Morris, who has worked as a cutwoman in bare-knuckle boxing, MMA and gloved boxing for over ten years, believes the laceration is very likely to re-open due to it being a ‘double wound site’.

Fury previously sustained two cuts in the same area during his blood-soaked bout with Otto Wallin in 2019.

“If he did that five years ago [against Otto Wallin] and the wound has come open again five years later in exactly the same place then it hasn’t healed properly and now it’s double wound site,” Morris told talkSPORT.com.

“He’s been cut and cut again in the same place. It just goes to show that after five years it hasn’t knitted back together.

“Even by coming back in after 100 days, which is the basic recommendation of when you should fight again after a cut is meant to have healed, he runs the risk of it reopening against Usyk.”

Asked if this will be a problem that could affect Fury for the rest of his career, Morris replied: “Yes. You would have thought after five years that it wouldn’t come back open but it obviously has.

“With age, your skin loses elasticity and the collagen underneath it, so it becomes much easier for you to get cut.

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“Fury is 35 years old now and it is going to take him almost double the time to heal as someone that is 20 years old.

“So it will cause him problems and I personally think it will come open in his next fight.

“And as a fighter, he will be very aware of that. Hopefully, he doesn’t panic too much about it and he protects his eye because the first thing Usyk is going to want to do is come out and land a shot on that eye…

“Fury usually carries his hands low and showboats. I don’t think we’ll see any of that.

“I think he’ll have a very tight guard because he needs to protect that eye at all times.”