Oleksandr Usyk picks Anthony Joshua to defeat Tyson Fury when the two meet in 2025 for their two fights. It’s not a total shock that Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) is picking AJ to defeat Fury because he has a huge advantage in power, speed and athletic ability over Tyson.
Unified heavyweight champion Usyk beat Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) for the second time on Saturday night in Riyadh, and has already defeated Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) twice in 2021 and 2022. Usyk had a good indicator of who will be on top from a match between AJ and “The Gypsy King” Fury.
Usyk’s choice
“Maybe it’s Anthony Joshua,” Usyk said Boxing King Media when asked who would win a fight between Joshua and Fury.
“I don’t know, maybe it’s points. I don’t know,” Usyk said about how AJ is going to defeat the Gypsy King.
Fury was stunned several times by Usyk, losing a 12-round unanimous decision by scores of 116-112 x 3. After the fight, instead of Fury being gracious in defeat, he insisted that he should win and sounded like a sore loser. He has shown that he is one of those types of fighters who will never admit when he is beaten. I don’t even know what Turki Alalshikh sees in him.
Out of shape
Fury looked fat around the middle, with his trunks pulled high above his navel and the referee choosing not to insist that he pull his trunk lower. Did the referee not notice how tall Fury’s trunks were for that fight?
There was almost no area for Usyk to direct his punches to Fury’s midsection, given how tall his torso was. If this fight had been staged in the United States, a referee would have insisted that Fury wear his lower trunks.
Fury’s weight was too high at 281, and I couldn’t believe that he had supposedly lived like a monk during his three-month training camp, not talking to his family about why he was supposed to train like that tough
What did Fury eat during camp? How does he walk through a field and look so fat? I couldn’t figure it out, and it doesn’t seem like Fury is dedicated 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 on Saturday night. “It’s the biggest fight in the history of British boxing, and everyone wants to see it. It wasn’t a Tyson Fury that looked finished.
“It was not a flat showit wasn’t a bad performance. He didn’t look shy or like his punch endurance was in question,” Hearn said, trying hard to paint a positive picture of Fury’s loss to Usyk.
“Tyson Fury is always at the peak of his powers. AJ vs. Fury is the one. One at Wembley and then back here for the Riyadh season,” said Hearn who wanted to make two fights between Joshua and Fury in 2025.
Who is Hearn trying to kid here? Fury looked absolutely horrible last weekend. If Hearn is serious about Fury still fighting at his “peak powers,” that could mean he never rated him in the first place because he was never really good during his career.
Even during Fury’s best win against a washed-up 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, he mostly threw punches in the air, leaning against the ropes, inviting the gunshy Wlad to throw.
