Promoter Frank Warren has been struggling a bit after his fighter, Tyson Fury, lost to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk via a 12-round unanimous decision in their rematch in Riyadh on Saturday night.
Fury’s hasty exit
Fury then ran out of the ring, not wanting to face the music and put his feet to the fire to be grilled by the media. What does that tell you? If he thought he was winning, he would bite down and stand on his hind legs and whine about it.
The judges got it right and scored it for Usyk, 116-112, 116-112 and 116-112. I had it 10-2 in Usyk’s favor. Even in the close rounds, Fury did nothing but throw backhands and throw weak punches.
Warren was “stunned” by the scores of two of the judges, who had Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) sweep every round of the six against former WBC heavyweight champion Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) . The other judge had Fury win just one round out of the last six.
I watched the fight, and I had Usyk sweeping every round from round five. It was an easy one to score as Fury’s reflexes looked shot, and he did next to nothing on offense. He seemed afraid to throw punches for fear of Usyk’s sniper-like left hand holding him back.
The once slim Fury who defeated Wladimir Klitschko in his prime in 2015 was gone tonight. In his place was a limp, 40-ish heavyweight who was unable to pull the trigger on his punches.
The Gypsy King fought exactly how the then 39-year-old Wladimir fought him nine years ago. Wlad couldn’t pull the trigger that night in Dusseldorf, Germany and Fury was the same tonight. He was mentally locked up,
Struck dumb
‘I’m dumbfounded. They gave him (Fury) four rounds out of twelve rounds, which is impossible,” said promoter Frank Warren. TNT Sports Boxing, complains about his fighter, Tyson Fury, who lost on the scorecards to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk in their rematch in Riyadh.
“I know I’m biased, but one judge didn’t give him one round from round six. How can that be? It’s impossible. Same with the other judge here. He gave him one round out of the last six. Same here with this man. It’s crazy.
“I’m calm, I’m collected. I scream and I don’t scream. This is nonsense. Everyone along that front row there. Me and Oscar De La Hoya beat him (Fury) by three or four rounds. This is Oscar and he is a neutral. He only won one round on two of the judges’ scorecards from round six. I mean, what fight did they watch?” said Warren, blasting the judges for not giving his fighter, Fury the win.
“I’m dumbfounded.”@FrankWarren talks through the scorecards and how he believes the judges got it wrong…
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