By: Sean Crose
“It was really loads simpler than I believed it could be,” Tyson Fury lately said on the Furocity podcast. He was referring, in fact, to the person who handed him his first defeat, Oleksandr Usyk. Though Usyk earned a call win, he nearly put the the towering Fury to the mat at one level of their 12 spherical undisputed heavyweight championship throwdown. Irrespective of. Fury claimed he misplaced to the expert Ukrainian as a result of he might have been having too good a time.
“I used to be lighting him up with three-, four-punch combos, laughing at him,” mentioned Fury. “My downside in that struggle, I in all probability had an excessive amount of enjoyable. It was in all probability too straightforward. At instances, it was too straightforward.” Fury, who has a historical past of creating eyebrow elevating statements, actually had his moments within the battle with Usyk. Certainly, it appeared for a time like he would possibly nicely merely draw back from his opponent along with his jab and his fluidity. Usyk, nevertheless, was not about to let his dream of changing into undisputed heavyweight champion disappear into the Saudi Arabian evening.
Fury, nevertheless, feels that it was extra a case of him shedding than of Usyk grinding out the win. “It was like I used to be in there with a neighborhood beginner boxer,” he continued, “and I used to be simply having fun with it an excessive amount of, messing round…that’s what occurs when you’ve an excessive amount of enjoyable.” Whereas Fury is someday seen as having an excessive amount of enjoyable outdoors the ring, nobody’s ever accused him of letting a victory slip away. Then once more, the person hadn’t misplaced a single struggle earlier than assembly Usyk.
Thankfully for Fury, he’s acquired a rematch with Usyk arrange for December in Saudi Arabia. “I’ve acquired to get him out of there,” he mentioned of Usyk, “as a result of I’m not going to get a call, which is unlucky as a result of it’s exhausting sufficient to win a struggle simply by profitable it, by no means thoughts figuring out you’ve acquired to knock somebody out.”
Staff Usyk in fact, is taking Fury’s phrases with a grain of salt. Usyk placed on an excellent efficiency through the first (and up until now, solely) struggle. Regardless of what Fury would possibly say, the 2 division kingpin (Usyk was undisputed cruiserweight champion earlier than transferring as much as heavyweight) fought nothing like “a neighborhood beginner” within the first battle. Fury is aware of as a lot himself. That’s why there’s little doubt Fury will enter the rematch figuring out how massive a problem awaits him.
“However I’m assured,” mentioned Fury, “and I’m wanting ahead to the problem.”
