Commentator Steve Bunce believes the reason Tyson Fury fled the ring immediately after the scores were announced in his loss to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk last Saturday night was because Daniel Dubois entered the ring.
An Embarrassing Spectacle
Bunce feels that when Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) saw IBF heavyweight champion Dubois enter the ring to call out Usyk (23-0, 14 KOs), he wouldn’t stand and watch . It would have put Fury in an awkward position and made him look bad.
It is unclear who decided to allow Dubois to enter the ring. Whoever it was, they obviously didn’t think how it would make the proud ex-WBC champion Fury look.
The high-ranking person who made the call to let Dubois in the ring may have overlooked how it Napoleonic rage in a humiliating position, ignored like driftwood. The emperor was reduced to a secondary person with that move.
It shouldn’t have happened because there were other ways to set up a Usyk vs. Dubois fight without Daniel entering the ring to call him out while Fury was still present.
The whole thing seemed like an embarrassing circus. Dubois didn’t seem comfortable calling out Usyk, and he was told to do so. He looked like he knew it wasn’t right and appeared timid.
Dubois’ irreverent move
“Obviously Dubois was in the ring trying to make a fight, but it was a little disrespectful. First, to Tyson Fury. Second, to Oleksandr Usyk, and third to Joseph Parker, who he will fight in February,” said Carl Frampton. TNT Sportsboxtalking about the circus atmosphere immediately after the Oleksandr Usyk vs Tyson Fury rematch, where Daniel Dubois was allowed to enter the ring.
“I didn’t quite like it. I understand why he does it, but it wasn’t my cup of tea,” says Frampton.
“I’m sure that’s why Fury left,” said commentator Steve Bunce, giving his take on why he believes Tyson Fury fled the ring immediately after the fight. ‘You’re in the ring, you Tyson Fury. You have long been the King of the world. You are in the ring. The man who just beat you (Usyk) very tight on points is there.
“You stand in the ring. You’re standing for nothing but doing an interview, and suddenly you see Dubois come in, enter stage left and get right into a fight. If we can get another camera angle, I bet Tyson Fury leaves sometime during that first thing. He stands in the ring. That’s how it works,” Bunce said.
“I know it’s 2-0, but it was so tight and so contested. There is a trilogy on the table. I think they have a third fight,” Bunce said of wanting a trilogy between Fury and Usyk next. “It’s still a massive fight ahead of AJ. Have a third fight (with Oleksandr). He’s not going to get knocked out. The AJ fight is still there. I think Fury is right when he says, ‘The AJ fight is going to be there, no matter when it happens,’ Bunce said.
Fury-Usyk were not controversial fights unless you are a Fury fan. People didn’t consider any of those matches to be controversial. The only thing that was questionable about the first one was the referee giving Fury a standing eight count in the ninth round when he was badly injured.
There is almost no chance for a trilogy match between Usyk and Fury to happen next because it is too risky for Tyson. He and his promoters are not going to take the chance that he will be beaten a third time by Usyk and ruin the lucrative match with Anthony Joshua. Turki Alalshikh also said after the fight that he wants to make a clash between Joshua and Fury next. He said nothing about setting up the trilogy.
