Comments Thread For: Oleksandr Usyk did enough to close the book on his Tyson Fury rivalry

[Sid-Knee]

Real boxing fans are the true winners of the Usyk victory. Money forces were positioning hype job fraud Joshua for Fury had he won. Losing 18 of 24 rounds to Usyk then getting anally violated by Dubois should push any fighter to the dumpster. But when you have a nation desperate for stars like Britain, getting beaten over and over and over means never having to say goodbye. You see them on this board - referring to Joshua by the cute girlfriend name “Josh.” Well Usyk ended the Joshua farce forever. We owe him thanks

Britain isn't desperate for stars. But you need to keep writing things like this by name checking us all the time because of the bitterness you've held for so long. It clearly looks like we'll be living in your head until your dying breath. We'll be dominating you for as long as prize fighting is around. How's that for star power?

[Rigpig]

Good fight Usyk clearly won. Fury has done good for the little athleticism he has. If you took his skill set and put it on a welterweight or middleweight someone who’s fighting someone of equal weight and similar height he’d be a journeyman 50-50 fighter.

[BrankoB]

It was a fair result - no matter how many rounds Usyk won by. Also like the article says, Usyk had all the physical disadvantages. If Fury is not clearly winning the fight in those circumstances while wearing those cheating shorts and beard, too - no judge is going to look kindly upon him.

Fury should have gone for it - really put it on Usyk but he just did the same as last time but slightly better. Same mistake AJ made. If Fury had really accpeted he had lost first time round then he might have actually changed things for this fight. Victim of his own arrogance...

I agree with you on most points. Usyk won fair and square. Fury has the physical advantages visually and on paper. Fury was wearing cheating shorts and I am not sure if beard is really significant or not. Before the fight, I really thought that Fury had a shot to win by pressing the action more, by being focused and by not clowning around and by coming in with better conditioning.

And in the first five rounds it looked like Fury was focused, disciplined and competitive. BUT then he took round 6 off and in round 7 I realised he had no more to give. He was just trying to survive - to not get knocked out. Basically, Fury who had an incredible engine and would fight all 12 rounds to the bitter end get up when he is knocked down is gone - no more. He is now old, fat and clumsy. By round 11 he could not keep his hands up and any shots he delivered had no mustard on them. He was physically exhausted. Even though he wanted to change things and even though he knew what needed to be done to win, his body could not execute the game plan. Years of abuse have finally taken their toll.

[letsgochump]

Boxing site , it's more like a hate page .It was another very close fight where Fury had more success than Usyk .a round either way would have done .Usyk simply did't do enough to win by four rounds.I get the feeling there's a lot of sore Joshua nut - huggers around this thread . This result was nearly as bad as Dave Allen's .

Roflmao nobody who understands boxing agrees with you. Usyk won clearly. No amount of tantrums gonna change that. There are a lot of boxing fans celebrating because your lovehandle king has been bad for boxing for too long. All that lousy trash talk, lucky decisions, ducking all top names for years, picking MMA guys and lying, all in vain. He got exposed and Usyk is the champion. He fought 3 fights against elite names and he is 1-2 against elite level fighters. It’s not bad. He stepped up and lost immediately. Happens to most fighters. He just one of the many.

Regardless, you and Frank Warren are alone. Everyone else knows the much better and much smaller man won.

[factsarenice]

Now I know why Fury didn't want to fight that middleweight....

[famicommander]

What rivalry?

Usyk beat him cleanly twice. That's not a rivalry, that's just one guy being much better.

[wileyhemi]

The problem is the judges are not allowed to score rounds even. They have a directive to call a winner of each round, no matter how close

[champion4ever]

Fury fought well. He even exceeded my expectations of not getting stopped this time but I was wrong. I thought he enjoyed success; Especially in the earlier rounds behind his jab.

However, after that the pace and tempo of the fight completely changed. He was no longer fighting off the front foot anymore because he wouldn't let his hands go.

Which made it easier for Usyk to simply spin him around and start fighting off the front foot himself while backing Fury up in the process.

[famicommander]

The problem is the judges are not allowed to score rounds even. They have a directive to call a winner of each round, no matter how close

What are you talking about? They are absolutely allowed to score a 10-10 round. It doesn't happen all that often but it's definitely allowed.

[Willowthewisp]

Thankfully he's not a sore loser or anything