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by David P. Greisman - DUSSELDORF — For the first time in quite a long time, there is a new heavyweight champion. The end of Wladimir Klitschko’s reign came in a manner few expected, with Tyson Fury outboxing him and winning a clear unanimous decision.
The common logic was the same line of thinking for pretty much everyone who had sought to unseat Klitschko during his extended reign. If Fury were to score the upset, logic dictated that he would need to do so as a result of power, with heavy hands landing on a chin that had shattered more than a decade ago, had held up surprisingly well since then but had still seemed as if it merely needed the right person to crack it once again.
Fury never cracked Klitschko’s chin, though he did land on the chin and head with 68 of his 86 landed punches, according to CompuBox. One of those shots, a left hook toward the end of the ninth round, looked as if it momentarily wobbled Klitschko, who handled it well and never was in trouble.
He was already in trouble from what Fury had been doing for much of the eight preceding rounds. And he didn’t appear to know how to handle it. [Click Here To Read More]
The common logic was the same line of thinking for pretty much everyone who had sought to unseat Klitschko during his extended reign. If Fury were to score the upset, logic dictated that he would need to do so as a result of power, with heavy hands landing on a chin that had shattered more than a decade ago, had held up surprisingly well since then but had still seemed as if it merely needed the right person to crack it once again.
Fury never cracked Klitschko’s chin, though he did land on the chin and head with 68 of his 86 landed punches, according to CompuBox. One of those shots, a left hook toward the end of the ninth round, looked as if it momentarily wobbled Klitschko, who handled it well and never was in trouble.
He was already in trouble from what Fury had been doing for much of the eight preceding rounds. And he didn’t appear to know how to handle it. [Click Here To Read More]
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