TYSON FURY Lost On Points In Saudi Arabia While Oleksandr Usyk Became The First Heavyweight Boxing Champion To Hold Four Belts In The World.
In A Night Filled With
All Kinds Of Skills From The Boxers, Tyson Fury Started The Match Well But Was
Saved By The Bell In The Ninth Round Due To Usyk's Defeat.
While Waiting For The
Result Cards To Be Read, Fury Seemed Convinced To Win Before The Cards Gave Usyk
The Victory..
The Scorecards Read
115-112 And 114-113 For The Ukrainian, With The Third Judge Scoring It 114-113
For Fury.
It Meant Fury, 35, Lost
For The First Time In His 16-Year Career. He Will Get The Chance To Get Revenge
With A Rematch Scheduled For Later This Year.
"I Believe He Won A
Few Rounds, But I Won A Lot," Fury Was Quoted As Saying On The Stage.
"It Was One Of The
Worst Decisions In Boxing History. I'll Be Back."
Usyk Takes The WBC Belt
From Fury, To Add To His WBA, WBO And IBF Collection.
The 37-Year-Old Boxer Is
Still Undefeated And Becomes The First Boxer In Nearly 25 Years To Stand Firm
As The World's Only Heavyweight Champion.
"Thank You Very Much
To My Team. It's A Great Opportunity For My Family, For Me, For My Country. It's
A Good Time, It's A Good Day," Usyk Said.
"Yes, Of Course. I'm
Ready For A Rematch."
Tyson Fury Never Lost A
Professional Fight For 16 Years
Usyk - The Former
Cruiserweight World Champion - Won In A Fight That Puts Him In The History Of
Boxing As One Of The Greats Of The Sport In The World.
After The Lack Of Fanfare
And Noise In The Stadium Due To The Fight That Took Place Earlier, The
Approximately 20,000 Fans That Included The Famous Face Of Cristiano Ronaldo Suddenly
Found Themselves Cheering.
Usyk - Who Looks Like A
Hero - Entered The Stage Wearing A Traditional Green Ukrainian Dress, His Eyes
Lighting Up The Stage.
In Contrast To Usyk's Intensity,
Fury, Who Is Funny, Sang And Danced To Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out For A Hero.
When The Match Started, Fury
Went To His Opponent's Corner And Started Throwing Heavy Punches At Him, A Move
That Drove Away The 2,500 British Fans Who Had Traveled.
While The Two Champions
Faced Each Other In The Middle Of The Stage, The Match Changed And Usyk Started
Attacking His Opponent And Pushed Him Back With Heavy Punches.
However, Fury, Who Was
Smiling All The Time, Showed His Tenacity And Finished The First Round Despite Usyk
Finding Him With A Hard Left And Sending Him Back Quickly.
Smiling And Brave Got
Through The First Round. Even When Usyk Landed A Solid Left Hook And Backed Him
Into The Corner, The Gypsy King Laughed Furiously.
Fury Responded With Two
Painful-Looking Uppercuts To Usyk Midway Through The Second.
Fury's Height And Reach
Advantage Were Creating Too Many Puzzles For Usyk To Solve, Or So It Seemed.
Usyk Returned To The
Contest In The Second Half Of The Fight
The Boxer Has Been
Starting His Fights At A Low Speed, A Move That Has Caused Him To Be Injured
Many Times.
But He Came Back With A
Bang In The Ninth Round.
With Lennox Lewis, The
Last Three-Time World Heavyweight Champion, And Fellow Former Champions Larry
Holmes And Evander Holyfield Watching The Fight, Usyk Finally Showed His
Prowess.
After A Series Of Left
And Right Punches Against Fury, Who Was Retreating And Dazed, The Referee
Intervened And Stopped Usyk From Continuing His Attacks - Signaling A Knock
Out.
Looking Shaken And
Leaning On The Ropes Of The Ring, The Referee Counted To 10 Before The Bell.
This Was Not A Boring,
Tactical Match, As Predicted By Some Analysts, But A Fight Full Of
Confrontations From Both Boxers.
Another Left Jab From Usyk
Caught Fury In The 11th Round.
The Two Greeted Each
Other Before The Start Of The 12th Round As The Fans Felt That The Match Was
Not Yet Over.
But It Was Usyk Who
Seemed To Finish The Last Round Cheerfully, Which Made Him Win The Match.
October's Lackluster
Fight Against Francis Ngannou Left Many Wondering If Fury's Best Days Were
Over.
But He Was A Good, Decent
Competitor And Any Comments Against Him That He Was Out Of Date Were Buried In
Oblivion As He Controlled The Early Parts Of The Match.
His Chance To Become A
Four-Time World Champion May Not Come Again Anytime Soon.
A Rematch Is Expected In October
But It Is Unlikely To Involve All Four Belts - The IBF Plans To Strip Usyk Of
The Title As He Is Not Ready To Face Their Mandatory Challenger.
"We'll Be Back, I'm Resting.
I Believe I Won The Fight But I'm Not Going To Sit Here Crying And Making
Excuses. We'll Fight Again," Fury Added.
The World Heavyweight
Title Is Regarded By Boxing Fans As The Sport's Biggest, Most Coveted Prize,
And The Crimean-Born Fighter Left The Ring With All Four Belts Strapped To His
6ft 3in Frame.