Did getting fat effect his power as well? He never was a puncher but today was crazy. In the later rounds he landed a clean uppercut but it looked like a soft tap more than a punch.
It's time to let the fat, giant, slow heavyweights fight. They don't seem to be able to keep up with the little guy. They lack the cardio and reflexes.
Usyk is the exception rather than the rule when it comes to small heavyweights.
Most of them don't have the stamina, speed, chin and skill of Usyk, and if you don't have all of that then the size usually shows, the Klitschko bros made careers out of poleaxing cruiserweights
I predict it will be a long time before we see anyone replicate what Usyk has done, it's a generational feat.
Fury has never been a big puncher
Wilder is/was mega chinny and so was Dillian Whyte
Fury landed the kitchen sink on the likes of Wallin, Chisora, Ngannou and more and couldn't knock them over
AJ is mega chinny so if fury fights him next he might look destructive again but he's not destructive against good defensive boxers with good chins and never has been if you look at his career as a whole.
He landed a few shots on Usyk that definitely rocked him, but Usyk always moves, and he saw all of those shots coming. Fury didn't catch Usyk with anything surprising.
Fury's power was tremendous when he was significantly more mobile than the opponent - Whyte, Chisora, Wilder. Those guys' legs are nowhere close to Fury's level. So Fury buckled down in the wieght room, developed some power, and started knocking out sitting ducks. Usyk was different - he's more mobile than Fury. Landing on him is rough. Nobody has really landed many shots on Usyk.
It looked like Fury came i to this fight with the intention of bullying Usyk but he just couldn't grab ahold of him. He couldn't lean on him and push him around. He tried a bit later in the fight when Usyk had slowed down a bit, but it didn't work.
In the first round Fury came out aggressively, but he wasn't able to pin Usyk down..., so he reverted to fighting off his back foot. He just isn't good enough to handle the middleweight.
It's time to let the fat, giant, slow heavyweights fight. They don't seem to be able to keep up with the little guy. They lack the cardio and reflexes.
Fury had tried to be offensive but Usyk always shut that down immediately. Fury always had to watch that he wasn't caught out of position. He was having great difficulty just keeping up with Usyk. There were many moments that Fury looked to be just surviving the rough spots. He got nailed pretty hard many times throughout the fight. He knows that he lost clearly and that's why he was too ashamed to do a post fight interview.
Did getting fat effect his power as well? He never was a puncher but today was crazy. In the later rounds he landed a clean uppercut but it looked like a soft tap more than a punch.
Usyk just has a very solid chin. Also power is force and acceleration, fury’s speed and timing was not there tonight.
He's just heavy handed, always has been.
But we should really be talking about Usyks chin and defence... No doubt an ATG, certainly P4P
Usyk's gas tank this fight was way better then the first fight. Even though he didn't have a 9th round like in the first fight this was much sharper performance to me.
Usyk was the harder puncher
Fury's trunks were high as hell too, usyk corner should have protested that ****
Maybe Usyk was worried he'd trip over Fury's bulging gut if they pulled the trunks down to a reasonable level.