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

It will be interesting if they ask Fury for his “recollections” of round 9 - if the ref had duly stopped the fight, I believe Fury would not have protested - he didn’t know if he was Arthur or Martha but he did look like he wanted the barrage of punches to stop....

 

I enjoyed that, ref and judging corruption even influence the decision, worth noting that they were trying though. The ref gave him a chance should have let him get folded, not give a standing.
Don’t see how any ref could possibly give fury a 114 to 113, or even give it to usyk by the same margin on the other card.
Corruption was at work, but luckily so was usyk. Atg status achieved

 

Never knew IM put this out ! TBH was never a big heavy metal fan. Although I've very much liked Rammstein, which has metal overtones.
I am a big history buff so well aware of that Alex's accomplishments.

I had reasons to pull for Usyk & Fury, so I was hoping for a competitive, entertaining fight where no one was hurt bad.
Props to Usyk, and I got what I wanted !

 

Thats flippant commenting because hes 37,id take Usyk at 37 than most boxers in the World today under 30.

 

He’s a volunteer surgeon’s assistant those steady hands been working overtime tonight

 

@miniq where you at?

 

With precise impeccability at times.

That's what wise 'ol hands can do..

 

I scored the fight for Usyk, 7-5 rounds, 115-112 points. I gave Usyk the first two rounds, Fury the next five rounds, and Usyk the final five rounds. The 9th round was 10-8 Usyk bc of the knockdown. I happened to have the exact same round-by-round scoring as DAZN commentator Chris Mannix. I thought the closest, most debatable round was the 3rd, which I gave to Fury. I thought the only other debatable round was the 11th, which I was going to give to Usyk anyway, and then he secured it by landing the single hardest punch of the round right before the bell. The three official judges agreed on 8 of the 12 rounds, those being the 1st, the 5th through the 10th, and the 12th. Of those eight rounds, I only disagreed with the 12th, which they gave to Fury, and I gave to Usyk. I have had mixed feelings about referee Mark Nelson in the past, but tonight I thought he was decent, if a bit slow to break the fighters in the relatively few times that Fury tried to clinch and put his weight on Usyk (as he did innumerable times in the second Wilder fight). Fury also landed a few low blows that were not admonished by Nelson. Maybe most importantly, Nelson should have called the 9th round knockdown when Usyk's punches bounced Fury off the ropes, bc Fury was clearly held up by those ropes, but Nelson did not call the knockdown until Usyk had landed another 6-7 hard punches to the head and Fury was sinking down along the blue corner post. Fury stood himself up straight by the count of 2, and Nelson was correct not to stop the fight then, especially has Fury has legendary recuperative powers (see Round 12 of the first Wilder fight). Fury was competitive in the final two rounds, but I wonder how much residual damage those extra 6-7 punches caused him. As the final scorecards were being read, and Buffer was announcing the winner was from "Ukraine", for a split second I thought I heard "UK" and that Usyk had been robbed just like Ngannou was. But thankfully Usyk was rightfully declared the winner, although it should have been by unanimous decision. I am looking forward to the rematch, but I would be surprised if it happens as soon as October, as is apparently designated in the contract.

 

He's very prolly good.


The long time spunk stained TF posters will have been removed from walls and ceilings and he'll just go after some new meat.


Trust me, our Miniq will be back to full grace...



Unlike TF....

 

Well It hurts but I have to concede that usyk is now clearly the p4p fighter on the planet, Crawford is still my dog though.

 

Tbh, for all intents, purposes and ultimate effectiveness , I think Usyk has lost more of a step than Fury.

As the smaller man, skills notwithstanding, Usyk still has to move more and do a lot more to overcome opponents holding notable size and dimensional advantages.

I believe Fury really didn’t want to fight Usyk, EVER - probably banking on someone else turning the trick of defeating Olek during the protracted period of Fury’s evasion of Olek.

Since that didn’t happen, there was then the “timeout” motive - looking toward Usyk aging and slowing down sufficiently for Fury to even step into the ring with him.

I still believe the cause of the postponement was not 100% kosher - and certainly, Fury entered the ring tonight in far better shape than he would’ve been in March.

Olek, on the other hand, had brought his conditioning to near peak in March, and then had to do it all over again.

Still, Olek had enough left to get the job done - and clearly so.

Usyk embodies the 3 crucial features to an ATG - Skills, Guts and Brains.

All said features came to the fore tonight in varying degrees and as and when required measures but overall, Usyk was maxing himself out and began to fatigue before he might ordinarily would have, had the fight been several years earlier.

Great fight overall.

 

He will probably convince himself that he won because he's a delusional narcissist like many top level athletes. I think a rematch would be great judging by how this fight went.

 

Just listened to Fury's post fight presser. He said that they thought he was up before the twelfth, that's the only reason he didn't knock Usyk out in the last round.

Fury fans, once again, how was that thing about Fury being a great guy who would definitely not look for excuses and would give full credit for beating him? First it was the war in Ukraine that swayed the judges, then it was only a matter of their thinking he was up, that's the only reason why Usyk wasn't stopped in the twelfth.

What. pathetic, despicable, sorry excuse for a decent human being this guy is.

 

John fury busted his head open for nothing lmfao

 

Feels like justice, didn’t expect fury to fight that way though I expected clinching and rough housing, but it probably makes sense he was probably worried about his recent cut getting opened up.
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned but the body work usyk invested in the early rounds paid off in the late rounds, and I think it contributed to how long it took fury to get his head clear after getting bounced around the ring like a pinball.