Bitter Grapes: Fury refuses to accept defeat against Usyk

Tyson Fury sounded like a bad 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 in their rematch in Riyadh.

Statistics tell the story

Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) outworked and schooled Fury (34-2, 24 KOs) on Saturday night at the Kingdom Arena. Oleksandr was aggressive, landed more shots, hurt Fury multiple times and well deserved the 12-round unanimous decision the judges gave him.

The scores were 116-112, 116-112 and 116-112. Fury says his promoter, Frank Warren, made him win by three or four rounds, which means zero.

Usyk vs. Fury 2 Punch Stats

– Tyson Fury: 144 of 509 hits for 28%
– Oleksandr Usyk: 179 out of 423 for 42%

“Yes, I was quite confident. I thought I won that fight. “I thought I had won both fights, but now I have two losses on my record,” Tyson Fury said at the post-fight press conferencesounding like a person in denial about his loss to Oleksandr Usyk on Saturday night in Riyadh.

“Once again, I will always believe, until the day I die, that I won that fight. I was on the front foot all night, landing with my body and head. (my promoter) Frank (Warren) had me three or four rounds ahead. Most people had me at least two. Always be a little hard on it. Not a little. Actually, a lot.

“When you don’t get the knockout. This is what happens. “A victory cannot be guaranteed,” Fury said.

The worst type of fighter you can have is one who does not admit when he is wrong and has not done his job correctly. When you tell them they’re not up to par, they deny it and think you’re the problem.

Fury is an example of that type of person. Put him on the battlefield in a war situation where he has to follow orders, and he’s totally unreliable and you can’t trust him to do what you tell him. If we put him in the top position to lead the pack, he would not be reliable because he cannot admit his mistakes. Fury can’t face the truth about himself.

“I don’t know if you saw the scorecards. A judge gave Usyk the final seven rounds. The other two judges in the last seven rounds gave him one round each,” promoter Frank Warren said of the judges. “How the hell can you say he won one round in the last seven?”

“A Christmas gift”

“I think he got a little Christmas present from those judges,” Fury said of Usyk. “I have no doubt that I won the fight.”

“Bob Arum scored 8-4 for Tyson,” said Fury’s manager Spencer Brown, speaking of Tyson’s co-promoter, Top Rank’s Bob Arum.