Tyson Fury is blaming getting hurt in round nine of the first fight against Oleksandr Usyk on “Complacency.”
The ‘Gypsy King’ Fury has aged and having a difficult time coming to accept that he’s not the fighter he once was in 2015, the zenith of his career when he beat 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko by a close decision in Duesseldorf, Germany.
That was Fury’s golden moment, beating a shot to pieces Wladimir and then celebrating the victory for the next 2 1/2 years, refusing to fight.
Fury Making Excuses
This excuse-making by Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) is pretty typical of the former WBC heavyweight champion because he can’t admit that the superior fighter had beaten him.
The Fury-Usyk 2 rematch is 32 days, on December 21st at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, and it’s a bad sign that Fury, 36, is still making excuses for his 12-round split loss to Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) on May 18th.
Usyk had been hitting Fury plenty during the fight, but that one left hand that he hurt him with was where he loaded up on it. He would eventually hurt Fury, but it occurred in the ninth.
Fury’s punch resistance has gone since his third fight with Deontay Wilder, and the only reason he’s avoided knockouts since is the soft opposition his management has set up for him, feeding him British journeymen Dillian Whyte and Dereck Chisora and novice Francis Ngannou.
“I sat with him and the optics of that round nine. ‘You almost got too comfortable by round six and seven,’ and he said, ‘The word is complacency, Gareth.’ To hear him say that, you know he’s going to make the adjustments,” said Gareth A. Davies to talkSport Boxing about the excuse Tyson Fury gave him for being hurt in round nine of his fight against Oleksandr Usyk on May 18th.
Until recently, Fury still claimed he should have won the first fight, which was so sad and pathetic that is beyond words. Fury had literally been saved by the referee in round nine when he got one punch from being knocked cold by Usyk, yet he was still chirping about being wronged.
Fury-Usyk 1 scores
114-113: Usyk
114-113: Fury
115-112: Usyk
The referee had saved him with his standing eight count that came out of the blue and tarnished the fight’s outcome for fans who can put two and two together.
“You know also that he [Fury] had a cut eye going into that rescheduled fight. They will be more conditioned this time. That last third of the fight is really important against Oleksandr Usyk. Tyson Fury will go out on his shield. Maybe a little more aggressive earlier. Maybe coming forward rather than fighting on the back foot for the first two or three rounds,” said Davies.
Usyk Wants To KO Fury
The rematch on December 21st will tell all, showing whether Usyk’s previous win was a fluke or a clear case of him being too talented for Fury.
This time, Usyk has hinted that he’s going to knock out Fury to take any chances of him or his fans complaining about being robbed after the contest, as we saw with the previous fight.
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