Here's the thing, Wilder landed less than Joshua, but got a shitty KD and a huge one. Wilder also didn't really get beaten up. I think Wilder looked FAR more amateurish than Joshua did though. He was swinging for the fences. Fury was too scared of the power to capitalize.
Well, In my opinion Joshua was getting pecked up more badly. Getting walked down and demolishing all of AJ's plans. For Wilder he was getting outclassed by Fury's snappy punches until the knockdowns.
I scored Fury-Wilder 115-111 Fury I scored Usyk-Joshua 117-111 Usyk Both Fury and Usyk won 9 rounds on my cards, but the KDs make Fury-Wilder 1 closer
Looking back Usyk had a tOugh fight with Joyce in the WSB. This content is protected Usyk would beat Joyce pretty easy, now. But its amazing to see how fat Usyk has come since his WSB days.
Fury-Wilder 1. The most you could score for Fury is 116-110, but most of the rounds were pretty even - more than I thought the first time watching it - and I don't begrudge 113-113 as much as some. For Usyk the lowest I could see is 116-112 which would be the closer scorecard, but realistically we're looking at 117-111, maybe 118-110 in a much more active fight. Usyk did much more damage to Joshua than Fury did to Wilder, perhaps even warranting a 10-8 in the twelfth, and was never knocked down or particularly hurt where Fury faced two, including a hard knockdown that he barely got up from.
Remember Fury was 60% his best vs Wilder in fight 1, and was still dominant over him for 9-10 rounds. Wilder didn't really land anything great on Fury aside from the knockdowns, and was windmilling all over the place. 60% Fury is poor compared to 100% Usyk. Fury vs Wilder 1 was closer only because of the knockdowns, and the first knockdown was weird like Fury lost his balance. At least Joshua won a few rounds due to his boxing and landing some straight rights.
In a boxing scoring sense, Fury vs Wilder 1, because you can at least make some case for the 113-113 draw in that one. Fury won, but the draw was at least plausible with the 2 10-8 rounds and a couple of close ones. In a what happened in the ring sense, clearly Fury vs Wilder 1 imo. Because Wilder got outboxed, but scored 2 KD's, of which one looked fight ending. Usyk vs Joshua was one dictating, doing the damage, and only some success in the 2nd of the 3 3rd's for Joshua. With Joshua only surviving the final round to boot.
It's a strange one. Joshua was competetive for the most part Wilder wasn't, he just landed 2 hail mary shots. But according to the scorecards Fury vs Wilder was closer, if not for the KDs it would have been an 11-1 or 12-0 win for Fury.
