Usyk chooses Joshua to defeat Fury in 2025

Oleksandr Usyk will pick Anthony Joshua to defeat Tyson Fury when the two meet in 2025 for their two fights. It’s not a total surprise that Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) would choose 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 last Saturday night in Riyadh, and has already defeated Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) twice in 2021 and 2022. From those fights, Usyk got a good idea of ​​who will emerge victorious from the showdown between AJ and ‘The Gypsy King’ Fury.

Usyk’s election

“Maybe it’s Anthony Joshua,” Usyk told King of Boxing Media when asked who will win a fight between Joshua and Fury.

“I don’t know, maybe it’s points. “I don’t know,” Usyk said about how AJ will defeat the Gypsy King.

Fury was surprised several times by Usyk, losing a 12-round unanimous decision by a score of 116-112 x 3. After the fight, instead of Fury being gracious in defeat, he insisted that he should have won and sounded like a sore loser. He showed that he is one of those types of fighters who will never admit when they are defeated. I still don’t know what Turki Alalshikh sees in him.

out of shape

Fury looked fat in the middle, with his swimsuit reaching past his navel and the referee decided not to insist that he lower his swimsuit. Did the referee not realize how high Fury’s trunk was for that fight?

There was almost no area for Usyk to aim his punches at Fury’s midsection, given how high his torso was. If this fight had taken place in the US, a referee would have insisted that Fury wear his lowest suit.

Fury’s weight was too high, 281, and I couldn’t believe he had supposedly lived like a monk during his three-month training camp, not speaking to his family because he supposedly trained so hard.

What did Fury eat during camp? How does he get through a camp and look so fat? I couldn’t figure it out, and it doesn’t seem like Fury is dedicated enough right now to work hard to get in good shape for his fights.

Turn a loss

“There’s only one fight for Tyson Fury and that’s Anthony Joshua,” Eddie Hearn told DAZN Boxing last Saturday night. “It’s the biggest fight in British boxing history and everyone will want to see it. That wasn’t a Tyson Fury who looked finished.

“It wasn’t a flat performance.It wasn’t a bad performance. He didn’t seem timid or like his punch resistance was in question,” Hearn said, striving to paint a positive picture of Fury’s loss to Usyk.

“Tyson Fury is still at the peak of his powers. AJ against Fury is the one. One at Wembley and then again here for the Riyadh season,” Hearn said about wanting to do two fights between Joshua and Fury in 2025.

Who is Hearn trying to fool here? Fury looked absolutely horrible last weekend. If Hearn is serious about Fury still reaching his “peak” powers, that could mean he never rated him in the first place because he never really looked good during his career.

Even during Fury’s best victory against a 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, he mostly threw punches into the air, leaning on the ropes, inviting gunslinger Wlad to throw.