Usyk looks more and more dominant with every rewatch

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  1. tinman

    tinman Loyal Member Full Member

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    I was initially caught up in the euphoria of the fight with all of its undisputed HW luster. I was sober, but it felt like I was on a stimulant. Watching it live it would have been very difficult to accurately score the fight. I was just too amped. Even during the 2nd viewing I was still a little bit amped. Just watched it a 3rd time. I couldn't give Fury more than 3 rounds. I had it Usyk 9-3 plus a Knockdown. Outside of a short stretch towards the middle of the fight where Usyk looked very uncomfortable it was an outclassing.
     
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  2. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    i gave Fury 4 rounds but i agree. a lot of people got caught up with the excitement of the event. Its mystifying when people give Fury the second round.
     
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  3. tinman

    tinman Loyal Member Full Member

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    It was weird. Usyk opened up the 2nd right away landing quality shot. He went forward the entire round. Landed the better shots. There is almost no way possible to score the 2nd for Fury. In that round Usyk was the aggressor, controlled the spirit of the round, showed better clean punching and ring generalship. British bias is the only reason to score it for Fury.
     
  4. ArseBandit

    ArseBandit Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    I'll have to rewatch, scored it 6 6 live with the knockdown making the difference but I don't see how there is another round for Fury in there, Usyk won his clearly and I favoured Fury in some very close rounds.
     
  5. FastSmith7

    FastSmith7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think anything from 7-5 to 9-3 is within the realms of possibility.

    I had it 8-4 Usyk and the only way I could see 6-6 is if you completely ignored Usyk's jab to the body which was a big weapon
     
  6. mirkofilipovic

    mirkofilipovic ESB Management Full Member

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    Usyk won every round, even the rounds Fury won I gave to Usyk out of sheer favoritism and tribalism.
     
  7. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    I rewatched it Sunday night, my initial score of 117-110... remained unchanged.:sisi1
     
  8. dmt

    dmt Hardest hitting hw ever Full Member

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    Yup. I don't get it either. One guy is moving forward and landing solid body shots and the occasional hard head shot. The other guy is punching himself and clowning around. Bizzare.
     
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  9. AdamT

    AdamT Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    7-5 usyk
    I could see 8-4, but 9-3 is a bit of a stretch imo
     
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  10. SergioJ91

    SergioJ91 Active Member Full Member

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    Yeah, I had it 8-4...Usyk dominated and had that stolen TKO in the 9th...
     
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  11. Flo_Raiden

    Flo_Raiden Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    7-5 with the KD. Fury looked very good in the rounds that he was winning but Usyk was on a different level.
     
  12. ChiefGego

    ChiefGego Active Member Full Member

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    I think it's fair to say he fought a pretty prime Fury performance, 7-5 to Usyk though
     
  13. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    I've watched a bunch of interviews of people involved in the game in whatever capacity where they said they had Belly sweeping all the rounds or all bar one of them in the first half of the fight.

    What the hell were they watching or maybe it's more a case of what the hell were they smoking while they were watching it? And I'm not even alluding to the pot here. I'm alluding to something considerably more potent than that. The crack or the meth..

    Fight wasn't close. Belly had a good spell in the middle rounds due to his size and orangutan reach and then Usyk made an adjustment and walked him down and beat him up and came within a whisker of knocking him out and he would've if not for the referee.
     
  14. pugilista

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    I agree in terms that even the rounds that looked very dominant by Fury weren’t really that bad in reality. Round 5, and especially Round 6, were Fury’s best rounds, but even those uppercuts landed in Round 6 didn’t really do much. I remember the commentators getting excited; Usyk backpedalled for 10-12 seconds, then started to push forward again. The guy seriously has an iron chin. He took at least two uppercuts of the kind that sent Whyte to the shadow realm, and he barely noticed them. I think realistically Fury won 3 rounds, 4 is fine too. 5 is unrealistic, I’d say; you have to be very pro-Fury to score it that way, as Usyk clearly won 8 rounds at a bare minimum.
     
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  15. tinman

    tinman Loyal Member Full Member

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    This. Usyk was the aggressor and landing the cleaner, harder more damaging punches. How do you score a fight for a guy who goes backwards and then doesn't land shots?