Round-by-Round: Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk | PPV - 18 May 2024

[cormack]

fury and his bunch of cling ons are going to come out bitchin about being robbed / refs / judges / politics / whatever .

just watch it unfold .

fuckin clowns

goodnite

I am as happy as a guy just gettin his first hole

[jtourettes]

Fury should have done the decent thing and asked the crowd for 3 hip hip hurrays for Usyk followed by 2 more bonus hip hip hoorays.

Throw in some birthday bumps too

[margaret thatcher]

usyk again makes the difference late, winning 3 of the last 4 on all cards + a kd. his engine is excellent.

[margaret thatcher]

I don't think Usyk will beat Anthony Joshua. I just think Usyk is too small to mix it up with the big heavyweights

he's beaten him twice and just beat an even bigger guy...........not sure if serious?

[jamesmcdonnell]

Very exiting fight and the right man won. I had it for Usyk by 116-112.
The fight should probably have stopped in the 9th, but as it were I'm amazed that Fury got through it. No the greatest chin in boxing history, but maybe the best recuperative power I'v seen.

Yeah, he's vulnerable but incredible recovery.

[margaret thatcher]

Well, Pusyk and his funbois can embrace each other until the rematch....

ha, fury lost to a pusyk

[Sendo Takeshi]

Well, Pusyk and his funbois can embrace each other until the rematch....

ha, fury lost to a pusyk

Only because of the war in Ukraine though.
Happy new year!

[jamesmcdonnell]

Make no mistake, Fury looked to be on top at the end of the sixth, but either he couldn't maintain the concentration or he didn't have the stamina.

He had usyk flustered, and was outboxing him, but usyk did what truly great fighters do, he found a way to turn it around.

[Loynesy]

I had Usyk winning 116-111.

As a social observation, I am in Dublin to watch Bruce Springsteen tomorrow. I watched the fight in a very well known sports bar and of course before the fight the clientele were pro Fury. At the final bell not a single person thought he had won - perhaps we are just 200 idiots.

[The Gratest]

Great fight, the swings in momentum were incredible.
The early rounds, it looked like Usyk's non-stop pressure was getting to Fury. Then Fury began to time him wuth the body shots and uppercuts, making Usyk hesitate a lot and lowering his output. I thought it was going to be all Fury from then on, but Usyk turned it back on again.
I thought he might go out and close the show in the 10th, looked like he let Fury off the hook, although Usyk was maybe tired himself from the effort in the 9th.
Credit to Fury though, he looked completely finished when the bell for the end of the 9th went, his ability to recover is pretty amazing.
Deserved winner in the end though.

Will you be renewing your Knitting Circle membership? I have..

Well someone will have to register the millions of new members, so i'm not going to dump that on someone else, am I?

Lets see...Liev Schreiber...confirmed...

[jamesmcdonnell]

I thought before hand that Usyk would only win if Fury was a bit shot.

However he beat a top Fury.

I thought Fury won the first 7, not a lot in it, but always a step ahead. Maybe he felt he didn't need to use his leaning tactics as it was all going to plan.

However Tyson should have been stopped, there is no standing 8 count and his knee never touched the ground.

I actually had Fury squeezing the decision, but it wouldn't have been fair as Fury was genuinely stopped.

Can't the ref call a knockdown if it's adjudged the ropes held him up.

[Loynesy]

Make no mistake, Fury looked to be on top at the end of the sixth, but either he couldn't maintain the concentration or he didn't have the stamina.

He had usyk flustered, and was outboxing him, but usyk did what truly great fighters do, he found a way to turn it around.

Completely agree James. It was definitely trending towards Fury at the end of round 6 (I had it 27-27) at that point.

Usyk just has a boxer's brain. So long as he has the cut man I think you or I could be in his corner and make no difference to who he currently has. That's not to denigrate his team, it's just that he figures things out himself.

[margaret thatcher]

I thought before hand that Usyk would only win if Fury was a bit shot.

However he beat a top Fury.

I thought Fury won the first 7, not a lot in it, but always a step ahead. Maybe he felt he didn't need to use his leaning tactics as it was all going to plan.

However Tyson should have been stopped, there is no standing 8 count and his knee never touched the ground.

I actually had Fury squeezing the decision, but it wouldn't have been fair as Fury was genuinely stopped.

wow you are some type of generous to fury

what you have it in the end? 115-112 tyson?116-111?

[Kilburn]

It seemed to me that Fury was enjoying himself after 6 rounds. Did that hit to the nose change the flow of the fight? Either way it was up to him to show a drop of greatness over the final quarter, and he wasn’t able to.

[KiwiRider]

It seemed to me that Fury was enjoying himself after 6 rounds. Did that hit to the nose change the flow of the fight? Either way it was up to him to show a drop of greatness over the final quarter, and he wasn’t able to.

It was one of those fights where the champion showed himself in the championship rounds. Brilliant effort from both guys. I still can't believe Fury recovered from such a comprehensive battering and was still there till the final bell.

[jamesmcdonnell]

I think the smashed nose probably shook him up a bit, and affected his breathing.

He showed a lot of grit in the 10th, and I think probably nicked the 11th .

Too much showboating, and got way too cocky, thought he had it in the bag, but usyk was tougher, more durable, and maintained the intensity and forced the opener.

I'm not sure Tyson can fight much better if at all than he did, Usyk knows now he can hurt and stop Tyson. I expect in a rematch he will go for it a little earlier, maybe hurt Fury early on.

[margaret thatcher]

usyk has always been a 12 round fighter, he gets stronger as bouts progress. this is just how his fights go, not simply a thing of fury unravelling himself

vs aj he won the final 3 rounds both times on all the cards . his fight high punch counts were in the final quarter of the fight

vs fury here he won 3 of the last 4 on all the cards plus scored a count. again, fight high output in the final quarter

other opponents had moments in the first half, before he separated himself. he figures guys out + has excellent stamina

[jamesmcdonnell]

usyk has always been a 12 round fighter, he gets stronger as bouts progress. this is just how his fights go, not simply a thing of fury unravelling himself

vs aj he won the final 3 rounds both times on all the cards . his fight high punch counts were in the final quarter of the fight

vs fury here he won 3 of the last 4 on all the cards plus scored a count. again, fight high output in the final quarter

other opponents had moments in the first half, before he separated himself. he figures guys out + has excellent stamina

I noticed Usyk took ring centre early, and he was pushing tyson back constantly.

Usyk is an intelligent pressure fighter, one of the best ever at it.

[gregregegg]

usyk has always been a 12 round fighter, he gets stronger as bouts progress. this is just how his fights go, not simply a thing of fury unravelling himself

vs aj he won the final 3 rounds both times on all the cards . his fight high punch counts were in the final quarter of the fight

vs fury here he won 3 of the last 4 on all the cards plus scored a count. again, fight high output in the final quarter

other opponents had moments in the first half, before he separated himself. he figures guys out + has excellent stamina

I noticed Usyk took ring centre early, and he was pushing tyson back constantly.

Usyk is an intelligent pressure fighter, one of the best ever at it.

Yea he did it so simply as well. I think he only landed about 3 real headshots toatal first 3 rounds. And wasn’t ripping the body. Was just fainting a lot steady pressure and decent strait shots to the body. Incredible that was enough to deter fury.

Fury wasn’t willing to engage enough to win those rounds and yay just breezed 2 and Mabey 3.

Usyk must have underrated power, cause early vs AJ and early vs fury he got much more respect than I had anticipated.

[Grilling Machine]

But if you put Tyson Fury in a list of heavyweight from the 1980s and 1990s he would not make the top 20.

You know when you take your first drunken whiz too soon? I've always felt that would've been Fury had he fought in the '90s. I think the psychological momentum he gained after the first Wilder fight sent a wave of intimidation through this era, and that Joshua would've been spooked into losing had they met soon after.

But for meeting Ngannou's confidence in poor shape this momentum was slowed, and Usyk's courage has carried his skills to a win at almost cruiserweight. So there'll be a queue of heavies with renewed belief they can beat him now.

Should Fury avenge this in October, he'll have at least a couple of Joshua, Zhang, Hrg, Dub, Joyce and Kabayel wanting a shot. Jalolov, Anderson and/or Ruiz might climb into fringe contention in the not too distant. Wardley'd love a crack and he's no pushover.

I don't believe Usyk or Fury could get through all of these names without a loss. As ever with the heavies, it feels like we're finally on the brink of finding out who's best. Today it's Usyk.

[Coco]

I thought before hand that Usyk would only win if Fury was a bit shot.

However he beat a top Fury.

I thought Fury won the first 7, not a lot in it, but always a step ahead. Maybe he felt he didn't need to use his leaning tactics as it was all going to plan.

However Tyson should have been stopped, there is no standing 8 count and his knee never touched the ground.

I actually had Fury squeezing the decision, but it wouldn't have been fair as Fury was genuinely stopped.

wow you are some type of generous to fury

what you have it in the end? 115-112 tyson?116-111?

7-5 plus the knockdown 114-113

But on the flip side Fury should have been stopped.

Technically the ref has a get out of jail card saying the ropes held him up, but that's weak, they weren't holding him up more than at other times.

[deadpan]

Citing 'the war' for why you lost the verdict is more delusional than your dad's sense of importance.

[Coco]

Make no mistake, Fury looked to be on top at the end of the sixth, but either he couldn't maintain the concentration or he didn't have the stamina.

He had usyk flustered, and was outboxing him, but usyk did what truly great fighters do, he found a way to turn it around.

Or got whacked in the head!!

Actually I felt Usyk was making him work hard in the early rounds without doing much himself, so he needed a couple of rounds off.

Risky tactics though as I felt Fury was then in a clear lead

[margaret thatcher]

usyk is very intelligent, he has all points of the fight in mind throughout a bout, not someone who just thinks for the moment. there is a method to everything he does. it can run things close but part of him having that extra gear is that he can push hard enough to get over the line when he needss to, and he's put in the leg work earlier to grind down his man enough for it

[Grilling Machine]

That last short left was an absolute beaut. Fury semi-consciously expected it to be looped and thought he had more time.