The First Three Rounds.

Was Like?

 

Alot of people gave Fury the first round.

 

Awwwwwwe.

 

100%. Rewatched it earlier. First 2 were clear Usyk rounds. 3 was closer but still Usyk. Scorecard could easily be 9-3 +1KD Usyk. Borderline shut out. Crazy. The biased commentary influenced me first time I watched as I thought it was a lot closer. It really wasn’t.

 

Fury won the 2nd and the 3rd. Usyk won the first. All 3 were close, 2 was certainly arguable for Usyk. I liked that nice one-two from Usyk to start the round, and it was back and forth throughout, certainly arguable for Usyk, but Fury really took over down the stretch of the round in the final minute or so.

To claim that Usyk won each of the first 3 rounds clearly, or that they weren't close, that's fanboy territory.

 

Coo

 

I had Round 1 for Usyk, Round 2 to Fury, but I could see the reverse argument. They were both quite close. Round 3 to Fury, yes. By the way, I did notice Usyk's body shots in, I think it was round 2. But Fury really landed some great eye catching shots as the round wore on and Usyk really didn't have an answer to it towards the end of round 2. You could certainly argue that Usyk did enough though for Round 2. I was very conflicted about round 2, I even thought about scoring it even, noting the good early one-two by Usyk and the (iirc) body shots, but was moved into scoring it for Fury with how he asserted himself as the round wore on.

 

Not surprised at all. It's an odd one becuase I marked Round 1 "close" while scoring it live but at the same time I was pretty confident in scoring it for Usyk, far more confident than I was in scoring Round 2 for Fury. With drenlou scoring round 1 for Fury, that sort of justifies my marking round 1 "close" in that I found someone who scored it Fury, but in the end I'm content with how I scored the first 3 : 1 for Usyk and 2 and 3 for Fury.

 

Usyk 114-113. See my RBR in the RBR topic #4500.