If he'd have won a couple more points or stopped Usyk when he had him hurt , people would be saying he was a top 5 greatest of all time heavyweight now. It's all small margins when it's two elite fighters fighters, the most dominant of your era, going at it for the undisputed. He just boxed at the highest possible level for the highest possible honours in boxing and lost in a close, fantastic fight to the best fighter of this era, There really is no shame at all.
Both are incredible and their fight was incredible as will be the rematch if they can both come fit and healthy. Both were fit and healthy which is the main thing anyone could ask for with these who are ageing end of life fighters. Remember all the nonsense that has been said in the lead up to this bout. Funny how it was Usyk who got cut not Fury? And it was Usyk who did the big damage in the fight. The boxing gods are watching. Everything in this fight was fate. The chances of Fury to get hurt like that and have the fortune of it being the end of the round surviving for 20 seconds is no luck.
I was pleasently surprised by how he fought. After round 7 I thiught he was winjing the fight and Usyk needed a miracle to change something. He was boxing really good in those middle rounds. Im definitly not counting him out of the rematch if he adjusts a little.
It was always going to happen to the loser of this fight, but the way people are trolling and trying to discredit him now is very unfair. He was already proven, and dominating the first half of the fight and having a close, brilliant 12 rounds with the P4P number 1, just cements he is a great fighter. It's just Usyk is the greater fighter, small margins.
Deserves respect for the performance yeah, but I can't give him THAT much respect knowing that he delayed the fight by over a year with his antics.
He wouldn't be top 5 of all time even if he beat Usyk because he'd still only have beaten 4 ranked Heavyweights, and Usyk himself didn't have much of a resume at Heavyweight. Louis had 33 wins against ranked opposition, Ali had 30, Holmes had 15, Lewis had 13, Marciano retired an undefeated Heavyweight champion at 49-0. So no even if Fury would've beat Usyk he wouldn't of been top 5, i also don't agree that Fury is a great because I never considered him a great even before the Usyk fight. Hes a very good Heavyweight but his resume is too paper thin to be considered a great, and the loss to Usyk is a pretty big body blow for his resume because hes not even in top 20 now.
Sometimes fighters need dance partners to elevate each other, Usyk has just reached the pinnacle and received universal respect from beating Fury, If Fury can find a way to win the return, then the current elevated standing of Usyk would in return lift Fury to greater heights than what 2 one sided victories over Usyk would have done.
Belly has only the size that allows him to land some good and powerful uppercuts like Lewis and blows to the body of the opponent plus a B+ IQ ring and A level capacity to recover from a couple of knowdowns (his chin is a B+ plus level). Nothing more. He is not neither in the 15 best HWs ever together with his smashed and mentally done playmate Beyonce Wilder who Zhang will crumble, crush, grind and destroy. Usyk instead HAS ALL and he entered the best 10 Hws ever last night...definetely. Thats all.
He deserves as much respect and admiration in defeat as Joshua does. Are Fury fans willing to concede that?
After Usyk defeated AJ all I heard from Fury fans was that AJ was a stiff bum, bodybuilder , not a top 5 HW . Fury fans were saying wilder knocks out AJ in 2 and also knocks out Usyk in 4 and Fury clowns and stops both Usyk and AJ. Now after Fury clearly lost and was saved by the ref in round 9 , we must put respect on Fury’s name???
I think Fury gets a hard time because of his antics inside and outside the ring. He claimed to be the best of his era - and the best of all time. Big claims, so you have to follow that up with impressive action. He didn't. He took pointless fights, particularly vs Chisora and Ngannou, when there were clear threats to him waiting in the wings. So I think fans got sick of him saying one thing and doing another. Then when he finally took the fight that would help to elevate him to the level where he said he was ... he lost. Fans like fighters who either are humble and give their all... Or who make boasts but back it up. Tyson, ultimately, did neither. Fury is obviously a very good fighter. He deserves respect for some of his previous wins and for giving Usyk a decent (ish) fight. But he does not deserve respect for his poor conduct, wanting the status without putting in the work. This is really boxing karma coming back to bite him, because it is his own fault. Even if he took dangerous fights, again and again, and lost, I still think fans would respect him more than they do now.
Personally I gave AJ heaps of credit for losing to Usyk, even in the rematch where he made significant adjustments. It's his opposition since then I've had issues with. Same goes for Fury. He gave a good performance and lost, and I expect the rematch to be even better. Honestly don't see the two of them lasting much longer in boxing though it's a young man's game.
Slightly But usyk definitely was more busted up vs Fury Both losers, so does it really matter who did better? To some it matters, I don't care As of right now it's Usyk who is the man and that's what counts Are Joshua fans willing to concede, that Fury vs Ngannou was a freak outing and his performance vs usyk shows that?
