Tyson Fury sounded like a poor sport after his loss to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night. He said the judges gave the Ukrainian an “early Christmas present” rather than admit he had lost to the best man in his rematch in Riyadh.
Stats Tell the Story
Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) outclassed and schooled Fury (34-2, 24 KOs) on Saturday night at the Kingdom Arena. Oleksandr was aggressive, connected on more shots, hurt Fury several times, and well deserved the 12 round unanimous decision that the judges gave him.
The scores were 116-112, 116-112 and 116-112. Fury says his promoter, Frank Warren, beat him by three or four rounds, which means zero.
Usyk vs. Fury 2 Punch Stats
– Tyson Fury: 144 of 509 punches for 28%
– Oleksandr Usyk: 179 of 423 for 42%
“Yeah, I was pretty confident. I thought I won that fight. I thought I won both fights, but now I have two losses on my record now,” Tyson Fury told the press conference after the fightSounding like a person in denial about his loss to Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night in Riyadh.
“Again, I’ll always believe until the day I die, I won that fight. I was on the front foot all night, landing body and head. (my promoter) Frank (Warren) had me three or four round up. Most people have had at least two. Not a lot, actually.
“When you don’t get the knockout. This is what happens. You can’t guarantee a win,” Fury said.
The worst kind of fighter you can have is the one who fails to admit when they are wrong, and they didn’t do their job right. When you tell them they’re not up to it, they deny it and think you’re the problem.
Fury is an example of this type of person. Put him on the battlefield in a war situation where he has to follow orders, and he is not reliable, and you could not trust him to do what he said. Put him in the lead position to lead the platoon, and he would be unreliable because he can’t admit his mistakes. Fury can’t face the truth about himself.
“I don’t know if you’ve seen the scorecards. One judge gave Usyk the last seven rounds. The other two judges in the last seven rounds gave him one round each,” said promoter Frank Warren on to the judges. “How the hell can you say he won once out of the last seven?”
“A Christmas Present”
“I think he got a little Christmas present from those judges,” Fury said of Usyk. “There is no doubt in my mind that I won the fight.”
“Bob Arum scored 8-4 for Tyson,” said Fury’s manager Spencer Brown, speaking of Tyson’s co-promoter Bob Arum of Top Rank.
