Tyson Fury still believes he should have won his first fight against Oleksandr Usyk last May, and he thinks he needs a knockout to defeat him in their rematch on December 21st.
According to Fury, Usyk only deserved to win three rounds of their fight on May 18th, 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, scoring it 115-112 and 113 for Usyk, and one giving it to Fury 114-113. That was the oddball score of the three.
I watched the fight and had it 9-3 in Usyk’s favor, and felt that the contest should have been stopped in the ninth round after Fury was out on his feet after taking a barrage of shots.
“There’s 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,” said Tyson Fury to the Undisputed YouTube channel about his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk on December 21st.
It’s good that Fury believes he’s got to get a knockout because he won’t showboat like last time and will come out firing punches.
“I give him rounds eight, nine, and ten. A couple of judges saw it differently; one of them saw me winning,” said Fury about the judges who scored his fight against Usyk.
As you see, Fury is still tormented about his loss, delusional about what happened last May. He can’t 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’s not someone who can learn from his mistakes. He would be the worst employee that a boss could have because when you point out the mistakes, Fury might 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’ve stopped every one of them,” said Fury.
The rematches that 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 held the WBC heavyweight title in the past, but he never beaten anyone during his reign as the champion. He was just a fighter who was maneuvered into the WBC spot by his clever promoters and fed subpar fighters during his five-year reign.
“In the first career up until becoming world champion against [39 1/2-year-old Wladimir] Klitschko and making the comeback at 30 years old. 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 fought. If you look at Fury’s resume since he returned in 2018, it’s poor all the way through. The only good heavyweight Fury fought was Usyk, and he lost to him despite having a six-inch height and 40-lb weight advantage.
Fury’s wins after 2018 comeback:
Francis Ngannou
Derek Chisora
Dillian Whyte
Deontay Wilder
Sefer Seferi
Tom Schwarz
Otto Wallin
“To making a comeback at nearly 30 stone to getting back to the top of the world again, that was an epic journey. It’s been an amazing career,” said Fury.
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 came back after his layoff after his win over 39-year-old Wladimir in 2015. The guys that Fury has beaten since making his return have been lesser fighters, every one of them.
Fury never fought this murderer’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 might have beaten Wardley and Zhang, but Hrgovic, Joshua, and Dubois would have knocked him out.
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