Do you think Fury really believes he won ?

Nope

 

Yes these boxers and top athletes are delusional

I think Wilder still thinks Fury cheated against him in their 2nd fight

 

Dear god, no. He didn't even really try on the second fight.

 

Hard to know since he's deluded but also one of the more sensible boxers on his better days.

I think he believes he should have won the first and maybe still nicked it if people liked 'his work'. By 'should have' it means if he hadn't been concussed by that punch that turned the fight and a concussion that likely was influenced by taking bombs a few months earlier. I think that's understandable. We'll never know if the circus fight did impact his punch resistance but it's definitely likely.

Second fight probably denial especially since he didn't get caught big but his boxing didn't save the day probably because he was too gun shy after the first.

I think he knows the first fight is the one that got away and that's what really kills him. It's similar to the Groves Froch saga really. Groves had the fight in his hands in the first but lost it and then got beaten the second but knew that he was capable of winning on the night if he just got it right .

People say Groves would always lose but in that second fight it was really one mistake that cost him and if he didn't try that counter hook, it's unlikely he'd have been easily KO'd the next 4 rounds since he was hardly taking damage, which means he had a good shot of getting a decision. You just don't get too many chances in this sport. You can't keep rematching like in tennis or athletics where you meet all the time.

 

It's certainly very difficult for these top guys to accept when they've lost.

A lot of their mental strength stems from the fact they don't believe they can be beat.

I don't know what Fury really believes, but if he thinks he's lost then he will be a diminished fighter.

 

He knows he didn't beat Usyk and it's bad for his ego, so that's why he's acting like that...

 

To suggest he thinks he won underrates Fury. He understands boxing very very well, so no he knows he lost; all of this is an act in Defense of his public image and opportunities for more $$$. I wish he got sparked in that first fight to save us all this talk. Even then he might still have cried robbery that he was still punching from the canvas and the ref should not have stopped the fight

 

He's so deluded about himself that of course he believes that stupid shyte. Classless fool.