Oleksandr Usyk is picking Anthony Joshua to beat Tyson Fury when the two meet in 2025 for their two fights. It’s not a complete shock that Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) is picking A to beat Fury because he has a huge advantage in strength, speed and athleticism over Tyson.
United heavyweight champion Usyk defeated Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) for the second time last Saturday night in Riyadh, and has already defeated Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) twice in 2021 and 2022. fight, Usyk made a good judgment about who will come out on top in the clash between them AJ and ‘Gypsy King’ Fury.
Usik’s choice
“Maybe it’s Anthony Joshua,” Usyk said Boxing King Media when asked who would win in a fight between Joshua and Fury.
“I don’t know, maybe it’s the points.” “I don’t know,” Usyk said of how AJ will beat Gypsy King.
Usyk stunned Fury several times, losing a 12-round unanimous decision 116-112 x 3. After the fight, instead of Fury being gracious in defeat, he insisted he should have won and sounded like a big loser. He has shown that he is one of those types of fighters who will never admit when he has been beaten. I still don’t know what Turki Alalshih sees in him.
Out Of Shape
Fury looked fat around the middle, with his underpants riding up past his navel, and the referee decided not to insist on pulling his underpants down. Did the referee not notice how tall Fury’s troops were for that fight?
There was almost no room for Usyk to aim his punches at Fury’s midsection, given how tall his torso was. If this fight had been staged in the US, the referee would have insisted Fury wear his underpants lower.
Fury’s weight was way too high at 281, and I couldn’t believe he was supposedly living like a monk during his three month training camp, not talking to his family because he was supposedly training so hard.
What did Fury eat during camp? How does he get through camp and look so fat? I couldn’t understand it, and it doesn’t seem like Fury is committed enough at this point to work hard to get in decent shape for his fights.
Spinning A Loss
“There’s only one fight for Tyson Fury and that’s Anthony Joshua,” Eddie Hearn told DAZN Boxing last Saturday night. “This is the biggest fight in British boxing history and everyone will want to see it.” It wasn’t Tyson Fury who looked finished.
“It was not a flat performanceit wasn’t a bad performance. “He didn’t look shy or like his punch resistance was in question,” Hearn said, trying to paint a positive picture of Fury’s loss to Usyk.
“Tyson Fury did still at the height of his powers. AJ vs. Fury is the one. One at Wembley and then back here for the season in Riyadh,” Hearn said of wanting to stage two fights between Joshua and Fury in 2025.
Who is Hearn trying to fool here? Fury looked absolutely awful last weekend. If Hearn is serious about Fury winning and still at the “peak” of his power, that could mean he never rated him in the first place because he never looked great during his career.
Even during Fury’s best win over a washed-up 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, he was mostly throwing punches in the air, leaning against the ropes, inviting a flustered Vlad to throw.