Opetaia believes Fury could have shown himself more against Usyk

Jai Opetaia says he would have liked to see Tyson Fury do more in his loss to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December 21 in Riyadh. He hoped former WBC champion Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) would have shown a “different version” of himself in the second fight with Usyk (23-0, 14 KOs), but he couldn’t. do it.

Fury, 36, was different from the first fight. He was much, much worse and it seemed like he didn’t even try hard to win the fight. It could be that Fury, with his look adopted from Fagin from the movie Oliver Twist, was afraid of getting knocked out. So, he played it safe and didn’t show Fagin’s ruthless and cunning traits to manipulate his way to victory.

The scores were 116-112 x 3 for Usyk. As in the first fight, Fury refuses to accept his defeat and complains that he deserves the victory. He made a mess of the post-fight press conference and said: “I believe until the day I die that he had won the fight.“It’s a shame his promoters didn’t gag him to shut up his bark. It seemed like a classic example of a bad athlete in complete denial. It had a score of 118-110 for Usyk. It wasn’t even close.

Opetaia’s analysis

“I wanted a different version of Fury. I wanted him to do more, but I guess it was the same kind of thing. Usyk is just an animal. “It’s a beast,” Jai Opetaia told The playing fieldreacting to Oleksandr Usyk’s victory over Tyson Fury in their rematch on December 21.

“He’s a damn bunny. He just doesn’t stop. It’s hard to beat a great fighter like that. You have to take your hat off to Usyk because you can’t fake that stuff. It’s hard work to be able to box like that for 12 rounds. That’s hard work. So, you have to be able to respect that.

“If it happens, it happens. “I’m always open to it,” Opetaia said when asked if he would be interested in fighting Usyk if he returns to the cruiserweight division. I would never knock down a fight like that. It’s a fight I would 100% take with both hands.

There was nothing Fury could do to win the rematch. What he needed was a working time machine to bring back the young version of himself from 2015 for the fight with Usyk. This old version couldn’t do it.

“Right now I’m focused on the eighth. I have a job to do. Let’s do it,” Opetaia said of his title defense against IBF No. 10-ranked contender David Nyika.