What was Fury doing that made Usyk struggle so much during the mid rounds of the first fight?

Fury was severly dominting , the fight took a drastic change after usyk kissed / licked his cross . Sounds odd but look the fight .

 

Fury was fully switched on and outboxing Usyk for that stretch, even hurting him. But Fury couldn’t keep up the pace, and once he slowed a bit, he got hurt bad, then had to try to do what he could in the back half while protecting himself better and having just been concussed. After how hurt Fury looked when Usyk landed that left, his performance for the rest of the fight is quite impressive — I wonder if he actually has any memories of it, because he’d absolutely just suffered a concussion.

I think Fury is capable of outboxing Usyk in little stretches, but it’s just not enough given the stamina disadvantage.

If for some reason they actually fight again, what Fury should do is shred every extra pound off. Come in at like 240. Go extra hard on the cardio training. If he can find the stamina to fight that way for 7 rounds, maybe he can eke it out.

Fury is staying in shape. Posting vids while jogging, doesn’t look fat when he’s appeared at events, etc. maybe he won’t screw this up? He’s GOT to lose the weight though — what he needs to give a better go at Usyk is more speed and stamina.

 

Saying he struggled is exaggerating.

More "was slightly less dominant".

 

Fury used his boxing skills to outbox Usyk for a continuous period of the fight. This is tough to believe as Fury has many noisy detractors, but you can't deny the result.

He's the only fighter to have outthought Usyk for any significant period of a fight.

 

Fury is Usyk's best opponent and an ATG himself

No need to put Fury down or make excuses for Usyk losing rounds to Fury firing on all cylinders.

 

Yeah it is crazy how much that seems to mentally impact him. Its like he gains his confidence from his faith. That is in contrast to Fury who had to showboat to get comfortable in the ring and build his confidence.

 

Fury made the first adjustment. He was double feinting, working off the jab and landing good uppercuts, tbh it looked like he had usyk figured out. But that was only up until around round 8/9 where Usyk counter adjusted and took over the fight from there onwards.

 

I think Usyk simply wasn’t best prepared, he had to go through full 2-3 camps for that fight, this lead to overtraining, his stamina wasn’t the same in that fight.

in the rematch Usyk looked much fresher and maintained a better and more consistent pace

 

Wasn’t he? Who was it then? I could check but I’m lazy as fuk, was bellew at heavyweight?

 

The actual reason was, or the reason I think he had limited success, was because Usyk has to be more switched on than with most of his other opponents.
He was facing one of the few fighters left in the game that actually still feint, this is an even more rare case in the heavyweight division, so he was being forced to make additional movements that were disrupting his rhythm, at to that the effective jab the fury was using and with his reach combined to make fury have a stronger few rounds, but I think there was only one of those rounds that was definitely a fury round I think it was the 4th, I gave him the rounds that you listed and I think one more but they weren’t all definitively fury rounds. Also worth mentioning that as well as being a drug cheat and blaming mental health, he said he was going to donate his entire purse from the first wilder fight to mental health charities and homeless charities and didn’t donate a penny, as the charities he mentioned said they didn’t receive anything from him. He also used to do some pretty shocking YouTube videos where he was pretty homophobic and antisemitic but got away with that as well.

 

Fury was outboxing Usyk and then got tired.
And then ate a big left hand!