Comments Thread For: Tyson Fury Just The Latest In A Long Line To Be In Denial About Defeat

[Dolor]

If you look at the Compubox stats (which I know aren't perfect), Usyk only outlanded Fury by 13 punches over 12 rounds

Usyk landed slightly more punches overall, and considerably (almost 30) more power punches.

[The D3vil]

I thought he won, too.

If you look at the Compubox stats (which I know aren't perfect), Usyk only outlanded Fury by 13 punches over 12 rounds, that's an average of 1 punch per round.

This idea that Usyk dominated the fight is ridiculous.

Fury won most of the early & mid rounds to me, with his uppercuts staggering Usyk, when he came in, but Usyk closed the last 4 or 5 strong.

It was an extremely close fight that I had Fury winning by one round, but having a draw or Usyk winning by a round or 2 wasn't out of the way, either.

People just don't like Tyson Fury

[landotter]

Usyk did what he had to. He started fast, survived the adjustments made by Fury in those middle rounds (honestly, even as an Usyk fan I do not think Fury is getting credit for his in fight IQ), and worked to the inside to hurt and outwork Fury.

2 things can be true at the same time:

1) It was a close fight.
2) Usyk did win by any real evaluation.

In the Joshua rematch, I was actually irritated a judge scored that fight for Joshua. Usyk clearly won and was denied the UD he deserved. I am kind of happy this one was a split decision. Fury lost, but fought more than well enough to defend a split decision. Besides, Usyk knows what is coming in the rematch so he has to take it even more seriously this time around as he can clearly see where he was dominated. That makes for a better match for all of us.

[TheOneAboveAll]

Wasn't a close fight at all IMO. Don't know why people think that a pawing jab from Fury outweighs several power punches from his opponents, but that should have been an easy fight to score. 1-3 to Usyk, 4-6 to Fury, 7 was close but Usyk slightly edged it, and the remaining rounds to Usyk, including a 10-8 in the 9th, which could have had more KDs called or a TKO stoppage. I would love to hear from the judge that thought Fury won, because his cards didn't resemble the fight at all. Being as generous as possible to Fury and giving him the two rounds that were at all close still leaves Usyk with the win.

Saw it precisely the same way, because this was a pretty easy fight to score.

[TonyRespectful]

You have to be a great liar to be a great boxer and the biggest lies are to oneself .” I’m not hurt “,I’m in my best shape ever “,I’m not finished,I’ve got another 5 years “,etc

[Boxviewer]

Earlier, a commenter said Fury could have won with a punch-n-hug strategy plus leaning heavily on Usyk. Props to Fury for not doing that. I always hated it when Wladimir Klitschko pulled that dirty trick on his opponents. Boxing is about hitting and not getting hit, but I personally dislike the tactics where “not getting hit” means we get 36 minutes of two sweaty men hugging.

Just like in the Francis Ngannou fight he tried to hug and lean on Usyk but both Francis and Usyk prevented it to happen by applying bicep technic to hold him off them. Rewatch the both fights to see what they did whenever Tipsy King wanted to lean on them. After a while he stopped trying because he was unsuccessful with it.

[Tatabanya]

Not same guy. Galen Brown is white & he posted regularly on Boxrec forum years ago. Had some cool stories & was interesting to listen to. Chancy Welliver would give Gabe a run for his money. There was also those 2 german brothers (Maybe twins) who got pretty obese but still got into the ring…

My bad - I wasn't familiar with Galen Brown (in fact I edited my previous post after realizing that my reply was awkward...).

Even Butterbean was less ugly to these eyes than Fury.

[joe strong]

Yeah, man - THAT Gabe Brown, for your visual pleasure

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Not same guy. Galen Brown is white & he posted regularly on Boxrec forum years ago. Had some cool stories & was interesting to listen to. Chancy Welliver would give Gabe a run for his money. There was also those 2 german brothers (Maybe twins) who got pretty obese but still got into the ring…

[Tatabanya]

Lol! Galen Brown? The HW journeyman? Joe Bugner wore them lame trunks that inspired Fury’s ring attire on occasion…

No, man - Gabe Brown, for your visual pleasure

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[joe strong]

In over five decades of watching fights, I can't remember having seen a heavyweight who looks as ugly in a boxing attire as Fury.

Except perhaps Gabe Brown.

Lol! Galen Brown? The HW journeyman? Joe Bugner wore them lame trunks that inspired Fury’s ring attire on occasion…