By: Sean Crose
“It was truly quite a bit 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 choice win, he virtually put the the towering Fury to the mat at one level of their 12 spherical undisputed heavyweight championship throwdown. Regardless of. Fury claimed he misplaced to the expert Ukrainian as a result of he could have been having too good a time.
“I used to be lighting him up with three-, four-punch mixtures, laughing at him,” stated Fury. “My drawback in that combat, I in all probability had an excessive amount of enjoyable. It was in all probability too straightforward. At occasions, it was too straightforward.” Fury, who has a historical past of creating eyebrow elevating statements, definitely had his moments within the battle with Usyk. Certainly, it appeared for a time like he may properly merely draw back from his opponent along with his jab and his fluidity. Usyk, nevertheless, was not about to let his dream of turning 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 an area novice 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 may have 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 combat earlier than assembly Usyk.
Fortuitously for Fury, he’s obtained a rematch with Usyk arrange for December in Saudi Arabia. “I’ve obtained to get him out of there,” he stated of Usyk, “as a result of I’m not going to get a choice, which is unlucky as a result of it’s laborious sufficient to win a combat simply by successful it, by no means thoughts realizing you’ve obtained to knock somebody out.”
Group 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) combat. Regardless of what Fury may say, the 2 division kingpin (Usyk was undisputed cruiserweight champion earlier than shifting as much as heavyweight) fought nothing like “an area novice” within the first battle. Fury is aware of as a lot himself. That’s why there’s little question Fury will enter the rematch realizing how massive a problem awaits him.
“However I’m assured,” stated Fury, “and I’m trying ahead to the problem.”
