Fury does Not lose to Joshua!

He did eventually land it in the 12th, when he finally went for broke. I'd love to have seen the consequences of Klitschko opening up like that from the early going.

Plodimir's best shot, though, was the petulant, guileless, undisguised, flagrant headbutt he drove into Fury's face in the 11th and which a fully sighted Tony Weeks allowed to go completely unchecked before deducting a point from Tyson for an infraction that barely was (a blow that clearly landed to the side of Klitschko's head, thrown just as Weeks was yelling for them to stop and break) a minute or so later. Preemptive awareness of such 'refereeing discretion' accounts for Fury electing to stand off Klitschko and stack points all night instead of walking him down and roughing him up. I'm not going to whine about Plodimir fighting dirty, it's a man's sport and fighters have to be able to deal with whatever tactics an opponent adopts, but the third man in the ring that night was clearly (and unsurprisingly) a bought and paid for sewer rat.

 

Tyson was unnecessarily deducted a point in that Wilder rematch demolition job, too, yet the Bronze Bomber wants to claim that Kenny 'Haymon Gofer' Bayless was agin him.

Fury always defies the stacked deck.