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

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Oh pish tush - every inhabitant of the Isles gets a chill down their spine at mention of the man that sent Ricky Hatton crashing into a turnbuckle.

 

minor edits: swapped out the word top "ten" for "fifty" (forgot to change it after copy/pasting and expanding it) and fixed the pluralized possessive in "tandems' eras".

If a friendly mod wouldn't mind sweeping up the "last edited by" tracers

 

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk vs. Tyson Luke Fury, 12 rounds @ heavyweight

 

Round 1

Usyk pressuring behind the southpaw feint jab, checked by Fury's left. Usyk scoring well with the lead left on the body. Fury clowning but not accomplishing much. Usyk falling just short with headhunting combos up on his toes, grazed him with a couple of left hands whipped up into Fury's nose.

10-9 Usyk

 

boxing is a sport in the same way wrasslin and mma are sports. rigged endings with the athletes taking life changing or ending punishment to profit pencil pushers.

 

Round 2

Usyk blasts him answering the bell. Aggressive start from Usyk, backing Fury into a corner. Fury tries prying his way loose with the uppercut, but can't find the aim with it. Usyk is caging his face between his forearms and now letting any of Fury's left jabs through. Usyk is throwing away pairs of jabs up top in order to keep Fury fixated on them, then plugging the left cross into the chest. Fury scoops in a shallow underhanded right hand, not enough of a low parabola to even call it an uppercut. Fury forking out a jab from a side-on stance. Usyk tries a combo past the Fury jab and is caught by a partially blocked Fury uppercut. Fury grins.

10-9 Usyk

20-18 Usyk

 

52% to 18% edge in accuracy for Usyk, my goodness what a stat that is.

 

Round 3

Usyk is pressuring the bigger man, outspeeding and outlanding him. Fury content to lay back, seemingly wanting to play the counter puncher but not able to locate his target reliably. Usyk too quick, using too many altitude changes, and covering his movement with fluid combinations. Fury with some hip shots and forearm clubs on the way into clinches, roughing Usyk up somewhat but not scoring cleanly on many legal areas. Usyk ropes out four straight punches in a row with Fury leaning against the ropes trying in vain to dodge.

10-9 Usyk

30-27 Usyk

 

Round 4

Usyk is catching Fury's jab on his wrists, still advancing but not punching first as Fury keeps letting both hands go. Fury whipping some underhanded rights at the body while paddling Usyk's guard with the jab. Usyk reaches in with some straight shots downstairs but can't reach past the long outstretched jabbing arm of Fury as the British super heavy dances in reverse. Fury switches to southpaw. A couple of right hooks get through for Fury. Clinch. Fury leaning in and grabbing at and then repelling Usyk to throw a damper on his combos. Double jab and right hand by Fury, crashing in and knocking Usyk's gloves back into his face. Fury backed into a corner. Usyk opens up with a body salvo but it all hits arms. Fury flicking backhanded jabs off his hip, and rakes Usyk with an uppercut stepping by.

10-9 Fury

39-37 Usyk

 

Round 5

Usyk is watching out for the Fury jab, trying to trap it between his gloves - but getting hit repeatedly with Fury's right shovel uppercut on the body. Fury is looking confident now, coming forward, stuffing more of those body uppercuts behind the high double jab. Borderline low blow. Usyk is looking more uncomfortable than I can remember seeing him professionally in this round. 1-2 by Fury, blocked but almost bursting through Usyk's guard. The jab alone is keeping Usyk's gloves pinned high and clearing a lane for the Fury uppercut downstairs. Terrible round for Usyk. Fury now sneaking a few jabs into the face as well.

10-9 Fury

48-47 Usyk

 

Richie Woodhall at this point has Fury up 48-47, having given him round two as well.

 

Round 6

Usyk is still struggling to solve the puzzle Fury began to lay out for him in the fourth & fifth rounds. Fury actually stuns Usyk with an uppercut - and then does it again! The uppercuts are landing on the body and causing Usyk to scamper away, and now Fury is bashing a left hook around the near thumb into the right ear of Usyk as well. Whipping hooks on either side of the head by Fury roaring out of a corner from a cockily reclined position at the bell. This now supercedes the previous round as the worst of Usyk's pro career IMO.

10-9 Fury

57-57

 

Round 7

Usyk blocks a few looping rights from Fury and then gets ragdolled in a couple of clinches close together. First minute has been a continuation of Fury acting like he's the boss. Usyk starts to diligently knife away up top with his southpaw jab, carving down Fury's shielding left arm. A few straight lefts on the body from Usyk. Fury gets in another of those backfoot counter uppercuts. Usyk keeps pressing in undeterred. Usyk is blocking as Fury tosses lazy shoeshines backing up. Usyk with a couple of nice combinations down the stretch, including a double chopping left hand.

10-9 Usyk, close but clear

67-66 Usyk

 

Round 8

Usyk is crowding Fury, watching out for that uppercut now, using a rollicking ocean wave side to side rhythm as he slides in and keeps feeding Fury a steady flow of right jabs in multiples. Usyk snapping Fury's head back with the line drive left. Fury can't gain much breathing space with his left jab, and is now busted open.

10-9 Usyk

77-75 Usyk