Tyson Fury was big for nothing

[NihonJim]

What's the point of being 290lbs just so you can back up for 80% of the fight

Every time Usyk catches these guys it's when they are hanging around at mid range or backing up

Points in the mid rounds especially after fury would dig in a bodyshot or a right hand Usyk would become completely flat footed for like 60 seconds at a time and Fury would just look at him and shuffle his shoulders

Surprisingly to me Fury PHYSICALLY still has it but mentally he's finished, he doesn't have the killer instinct in him anymore, he wants to faff about and try edge fights on points, he's not willing to go to war anymore

Usyk should pack it in as well he's getting too old and soon someone will beat him just by being 20 years younger

[dibzvincent143]

Fury was really having a lot of success everytime he’s the one who pushes the fight. He was also safer fighting on the inside than in midrange where usyk can pop that straight left

[Damn Wicked]

What's the point of being 290lbs just so you can back up for 80% of the fight

Every time Usyk catches these guys it's when they are hanging around at mid range or backing up

Points in the mid rounds especially after fury would dig in a bodyshot or a right hand Usyk would become completely flat footed for like 60 seconds at a time and Fury would just look at him and shuffle his shoulders

Surprisingly to me Fury PHYSICALLY still has it but mentally he's finished, he doesn't have the killer instinct in him anymore, he wants to faff about and try edge fights on points, he's not willing to go to war anymore

Usyk should pack it in as well he's getting too old and soon someone will beat him just by being 20 years younger

Fury tried to get in close and bully Usyk but every time he tried, he failed, so he had to fight defensively on his backfoot most of the fight. His bullying, offensive tactics weren't working. Had he sustained that, he would have been KO'd. He knew that. That's why he didn't continue that game plan.

[hugh grant]

Fury IQ not as high as I thought it was. He's had months to figure how to best usyk

[NihonJim]

Fury tried to get in close and bully Usyk but every time he tried, he failed, so he had to fight defensively on his backfoot most of the fight. His bullying, offensive tactics weren't working. Had he sustained that, he would have been KO'd. He knew that. That's why he didn't continue that game plan.

Not what I saw at all, all fury's success came when going forward, all Usyks came when fury was backing up trying to look for counters.

[M312]

It's the pressure Usyk puts on you with his feet and positioning. That's true ring generalship.

Didn't give Tyson a chance to set because he created angles and sprang into action. Kept his right foot on the outside so dictated the movements, Tyson was just always reacting and pushed away with positioning.

It's really hard to just go forward when you don't have foot position, and getting popped down the middle so easily.

It's not that Tyson didn't want to go forward.. he couldn't.

[Toffee]

You don't need to be 280 pounds to be aggressive. The extra 20 pounds didn't help his cause at all.

I severely doubt that Fury's weight was a strategy. I think it was a symptom of a fighter being on his way out of the sport and lacking the motivation to get to his optimum.

[BodyBagz]

Size is all Fury has
Without the size, he's not even a journeyman.

[Roadblock]

Not what I saw at all, all fury's success came when going forward, all Usyks came when fury was backing up trying to look for counters.

He has to carry that size, at some point it wears on his legs not on Ursk as he is pivoting all night, and Tyson is a clumsy in-fighter his size works against him on the inside, he needed to back up Usrk or tie him up. and he dont have the legs to do it round after round..

[j0zef]

At some point in time fans gotta realize that world class professional boxers, their trainers, and their teams. generally know 10 times more than the fans. It's very easy to say "all Fury had to do was.." He tried. Joshua tried. Dubois tried. Dozen others world class boxers tried.

It's very different when you're the one in the ring being asked to stick to a gameplan while getting tagged and countered.