Tyson Fury sounded like a poor sport after his loss to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night. He said the judges had given the Ukrainian an “early Christmas present” rather than admit he lost to the better man in their rematch in Riyadh.
Statistics tell the story
Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) outboxed and schooled Fury (34-2, 24 KOs) on Saturday night at the Kingdom Arena. Oleksandr was aggressive, connected with more shots, hurt Fury several times and earned the 12-round unanimous decision the judges gave him.
The scores were 116-112, 116-112 and 116-112. Fury says his promoter, Frank Warren, had him win by three or four rounds, which means zero.
Usyk vs. Fury 2 Punch Statistics
– Tyson Fury: 144 of 509 punches for 28%
– Oleksandr Usyk: 179 of 423 for 42%
“Yeah, I was pretty confident. I thought I won that fight. I thought I won both fights, but now I have two losses on my record,” said Tyson Fury at the post-fight press conferencesounds like a person in denial about his loss to Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night in Riyadh.
“Again, I’ll always believe until the day I die, I won that fight. I was on the front foot all night and landed body and head. (my promoter) Frank (Warren) had me up three or four rounds. Most people had at least two for me. Always be a little harsh with it. Not a bit. Actually a lot.
“When you don’t get the knockout. This is what happens. You can’t guarantee a win,” Fury said.
The worst kind of fighter you can have is one who fails to admit when they are wrong, and they haven’t done their job correctly. When you tell them they are not up to par, they deny it and think you are the problem.
Fury is an example of that kind of person. Put him on the battlefield in a war situation where he has to follow orders, and he’s totally unreliable, and you couldn’t trust him to do what he said. Put him in the point position to lead the peloton, and he’ll be unreliable because he can’t admit his mistakes. Fury cannot face the truth about himself.
“I don’t know if you’ve seen the scorecards. One judge gave Usyk the last seven rounds. The other two judges in the last seven rounds each gave him a round,” promoter Frank Warren said of the judges. “How on earth can you say he won one round out of the last seven?”
“A Christmas Present”
“I think he got a little Christmas present from those judges,” Fury said of Usyk. “There is no doubt in my mind that I won the fight.”
“Bob Arum scored it 8-4 for Tyson,” Fury’s manager Spencer Brown said of Tyson’s co-promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank.
