Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk vs. Tyson Luke Fury & Jai Opetaia vs. Mairis Briedis II - RBR.

He did not win round 2.

All of your posts on this matter cone across as being bitter. You pay Usyk backhanded compliments and then tell us that Fury could have got the decision and will win a rematch.

He has his chance today and was both beaten and beaten up by a better man.

Get over it.

 

What did Fury do?

 

If Turki can keep making these cards happen, while continuing to pay the fighters huge money, god damn. Well done.

The only fight that didn’t end up being great was Kovalev. But I get why that one was booked. Mostly just sad though. He’d have crushed that dude back in the day.

 

Do we have any footage of John Fury post fight?

 

Landed a good right hand. Still Usyk landed more.

 

I can see how Fury could win the rematch, because when he looked dominant he looked REALLY dominant. Between rounds 4 and 7 he looked very menacing, and had Usyk frustrated and hurt like he's never been before. If Fury turned up the pressure instead of fooling around so much, he looked like he could've had it, and I still don't know if that was complacency (wanting to bully and outbox Usyk), or simply that he was pacing himself and felt Usyk's power enough to not come forward more assertively in that dominant period.

On the other hand, Usyk knows he can hurt Fury, and that Round 9 alone will have put miles on the clock for a Fury who's ageing quicker than Usyk due to taking heavy punishment and living a bad lifestyle through his career.

Whatever the case, the fight was competitive (and great) enough that a rematch remains interesting.

 

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Congrats to Usyk, I didn’t think he could beat Fury. Talk about high drama down the stretch.

I don’t think Fury stood his ground enough and didn’t put the pressure on when he should have, he caught Usyk solid several times coming in, he had him genuinely stunned and chose not to hone in on Usyk and press the action. Not many right crosses from Fury either. Hopefully there's a rematch.

 

Tbh I think Fury’s chin cracked from all the Wilder fights even Ngannou cracked it more. His durability is not the same.

 

Well said!

 

Fury could easily win. His dumb showboating helped nothing, and it took him too long to get cranked up. But once he did around round 4, I was thinking he’d win. He was looking great, far better than he had in years, causing Usyk all kinds of problems. Then Usyk cracked him good and took over the fight.

A consistent issue I kept noticing with Usyk was dealing with the difference in reach. He kept throwing and hitting air either because Fury pulled back, or because Fury was too far away to hit. If they have a rematch, Usyk needs some tall AF sparring partners to practice jabbing with.

 

Fury only has so many many weapons in his arsenal

Once he revealed his hand and showed all of his weaponary, Usyk figured out a way and stepped up a level

 

I think most of us lost our hope and accepted the loss during rounds 4 - 6.

 

Pretty much. "I guess he really is just too big. Too big and too good." Then Usyk had a better 7th and an excellent 8th, but I was still worried.
I was jumping up and down in the 9th. I shadow boxed like an idiot . Absolute emotional roller coaster.

 

Usyk out landed Fury 18 to 10 in punches landed in round 12 including having a 14-7 edge in power punches landed.

Competitive but clear round for Usyk to me.