Tyson Fury still believes he should have won his first fight against Oleksandr Usyk last May, and thinks he needs a knockout to defeat him in their December 21 rematch.
According to Fury, Usyk only deserved to win three rounds of their fight on May 18, giving him 8, 9 and 10. That would have made it 9-3 for Fury, but the 10-8 round in the ninth made it a little closer.
The judges saw it differently and scored it 115-112 and 113 for Usyk, and one that gave it to Fury 114-113. It was the odd score of the three.
I watched the fight and had it 9-3 in Usyk’s favor, and felt the fight should have been stopped in the ninth round after Fury was out on his feet after taking a barrage of shots.
“There is no secret. I’m going in there to knock him out because I don’t think I’m going to get a decision no matter what I do. So I have to take it out of the judges hands. I believe I have to get him out of there,” Tyson Fury told the Undisputed YouTube channel about his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk on December 21.
It’s a good thing Fury believes he needs a knockout because he won’t showboat like last time and will come out with punches.
“I give him rounds eight, nine and ten. A few reviewers saw it differently; one of them saw me win,” Fury said of the judges who scored his fight against Usyk.
As you can see, Fury is still reeling from his loss, delusional about what happened last May. He cannot grasp the reality that he was beaten by the better man, Usyk, and saved by the referee in the ninth.
For Fury still unable to accept his loss, it shows that he is not someone who can learn from his mistakes. He would be the worst employee a boss could have, because when you point out the faults, Fury may refuse to accept them.
“In two decades, no one has ever survived a rematch with me, and in all the rematches with John McDermott, Derek Chisora and Wilder, I stopped every one of them,” said Fury.
The rematches Fury won were against lesser fighters, nowhere near the class of Usyk, Dubois, Joshua, Zhang or Hrgovic. McDermott, Chisora and Wilder were not high-level fighters.
Wilder has held the WBC heavyweight title in the past, but he never beat anyone during his reign as champion. He was just a fighter maneuvered into the WBC spot by his smart promoters and fed subpar fighters during his five year reign.
“In the first career until he became world champion against (39 1/2-year-old Wladimir) Klitschko and made the comeback at the age of 30. When you think about sports people at 30, they’re usually almost done, aren’t they?” said Fury.
Many heavyweights are still fighting well into their 30s. The fact that Fury made a comeback at 30 isn’t a big deal, especially when you look at the fighters he’s fought. If you look at Fury’s resume since he returned in 2018, it has been consistently poor. The only good heavyweight Fury fought was Usyk, and he lost to him despite a six inch height and 40 pound weight advantage.
Fury’s wins after 2018 comeback:
Francis Ngannou
Derek Chisora
Dillian Whyte
Deontay Wilder
Expedition Expedition
Tom Black
Otto Wallin
“To make a comeback at almost 30 stone to get back to the top of the world again, it’s been an epic journey. It’s been a great career,” Fury said.
Who did Fury actually beat to make his comeback to supposedly reach the “top of the world” again, as he says? Fury never proved that he was the best, nor did he show that he had bounced back from his layoff following his win over the 39-year-old Wladimir in 2015. The guys Fury has beaten since his return have been lesser fighters, all of them.
Fury never fought this killer’s row of killer heavyweights: Daniel Dubois, Anthony Joshua, Filip Hrgovic, Zhilei Zhang and Fabio Wardley.
Would Fury have beaten those fighters to make a comeback? He could have beaten Wardley and Zhang, but Hrgovic, Joshua and Dubois would have knocked him out.
