A good pre fight analysis: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/b...-view-on-where-the-fight-will-be-won-and-lost
Very tight odds with the bookies too. Fury a slight favourite from what I can see. Super interesting fight. I just can’t see how Usyk breaks the big man down. I know he’s super busy, can switch it, good feet and all that but so’s Fury!
Interestingly, 2 of the guys who have fought Usyk (Bellew and Joshua) both reckon he will win. I saw the weigh in yesterday. Fury looks “skinny fat” to me, and is still carrying a fair bit of flab around his waist. Has he lost too much timber too quickly, which might leave him feeling drained? One of the points both Bellew and Joshua made is that Usyk’s work rate and movement absolutely exhausted them, so that could be a factor.
Fury wins this, sure his eye is a vulnerability but on the other side so is his opponents height, weight and reach. If Fury is fit and slim -and he is- he has more than enough to take him. GO FURY!
Well they would say that having lost to him... He's always been top heavy with skinny legs but as one of the pundits said those legs being too thin might be to his detriment.
Absolutely, Bellew wouldn't have beaten Haye in his prime, but he thinks he did. He's over rated, mainly by himself. Joshua has been found out, and it's messed with his head. I don't think he'll ever get off the floor, and win against a top rated fighter.
Fury looks like one of those fairground fighters. If you can beat him you get £50. Truth is he’s never looked great… but looks can be very, very deceiving. I honestly believe Fury has the style to get through this. And also believe AJ would be a walk in the park for him. AJ falls short of both Usyk and Fury in terms of talent.
I don't give a monkeys what Bellew says about anything, Bellew is a paid motor mouth in the image of The Sun. Bellew says that Joshua is faster better and harder punching than Fury which the fight records show is total nonsense. Bellew also said he would beat Usyk himself.
Well, well, well…..the middleweight did it! What was judge Metcalf thinking, giving it 114-113 to Fury
I only caught the 2nd half of the fight, but the highlights showed Fury mucking around too much. He should have taken a knee much earlier when he was in trouble in the 9th round too. On that performance I don't see him beating Usyk in the rematch either.
Great fight. Usyk a very worthy winner, fair play. I don’t think anyone can dislike Usyk I thought Fury would win. Glad I didn’t put any dosh on it…
Congratulations to a worthy champion. Usyk kept going and pressed his advantage all the way to the end. A rematch to follow within this year so its not all over. But Fury will need to find quite alot more to overcome him.
I did end up watching it. 1 point out lol. Fair fucks to fury though he’s a warrior coming back from that onslaught although he won’t be going for a line in the toilets for a few days, mr usyk knocked that nose of his back to Ireland at one point. Not sure how that judge scored it in favour of him either. Going to have to up his game isn’t he.
Well you can't take anything away from Usyk & it sounds like he was a worthy winner. Got that one wrong but the suspicions of my mate proved correct - 2 years too late for Fury & Usyk is quick, strong & cany. From the talk on the radio (there was no live commentary) I don't think I heard the word 'jab' once. Seems to be disappointing performance from Fury.
Fury’s performance wasn’t that bad. It was pretty close for much of the fight up to about the 8th round and he kept catching Usyk with huge uppercuts into the diaphragm area. Fury won at least 3 or 4 rounds (4 - 6, possibly 7 and either 11 or 12, but I haven’t rechecked the card). He wasn’t flicking his jab out so much as doing that thing he does where he just leaves his left arm hanging out with his glove pawing at the oppo’s face, but that doesn’t work too well against someone as mobile as Usyk. Fury’s comments afterwards about the judges being biased because Ukraine is at war were poor form and on top of AJ’s weird post-fight rant after getting beaten, Usyk must wonder what it is with British fighters. I hope Fury reconsiders that view after watching the fight over and apologises, although I doubt that will happen. It’s a pity you didn’t get to watch it, as it lived up to its billing.
Fury was still carrying some lard, maybe another stone off and he could keep up his performance in the early rounds longer.
I think he was pretty much out on his feet and so may not have even been conscious by that point. I had a case involving automatism induced by head trauma* and the consultant neurologist expert witness gave evidence that it is sometimes possible for a person to be knocked out and so no longer consciously aware of what’s going on or capable of taking decisions, but still be able, like they’re on a kind of autopilot, to walk around and even climb stairs. * My client was the world’s unluckiest burglar. Him and two other guys broke into a house armed with hammers, screwdrivers and a samurai sword, only to find that the householder was (a) at home, (b) an MMA instructor. He disarmed the guy with the hammer and then used it to batter the absolute bejesus out of my guy with it, leaving him with a fractured skull, a smashed jaw and a broken thumb. When the paramedics turned up they thought he was dead and the householder was initially arrested for attempted murder. My guy’s defence was that he had changed his mind and tried to back out when they were at the doorstep, but one of his accomplices hit him from behind with a hammer, knocked him unconscious and pushed him through the front door, after which he couldn’t remember anything else.
