Oleksandr Usyk selects Anthony Joshua to defeat Tyson Fury when the two meet in 2025 in their fight. It's not a complete shock that Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) would choose AJ to defeat Fury because he has a huge advantage in strength, speed and athletic ability over Tyson.
Unified heavyweight champion Usyk defeated Fury (34-2-1, 24 KO) for the second time last Saturday night in Riyadh, and has already defeated Joshua twice (28-4, 25 KO) in 2021 and 2022. Usyk got a good gauge of who will come out on top from the showdown between AJ and “The Gypsy King” Fury.
OSIC's choice
“It might be Anthony Joshua,” Usyk said. King of Boxing Media When asked who would win the fight between Joshua and Fury.
“I don't know, maybe it's the points. I don't know,” Usyk said about how AJ would defeat the Gypsy King.
Fury was stunned several times by Usyk, losing a 12-round unanimous decision with a score of 116-112 x 3. After the fight, instead of being gracious in defeat, Fury insisted that he should have won and looked like a sore loser. He has shown that he is one of those fighters who will never admit to being beaten. I still don't know what Turki Al-Sheikh sees in him.
Out of shape
Fury looked fat around the middle, as his trousers were pulled high past his navel and the referee chose not to insist on his trousers being pulled down. Didn't the referee notice how high Fury's chests were in that fight?
There was almost no room for Usyk to land his punches into Fury's midsection, given how high up his pants were. If this fight had been organized in the United States, the referee would have insisted that Fury lower his pants.
Fury weighed so high at 281, I couldn't believe he lived like a monk during his three month training camp, not talking to his family because he was supposedly training hard.
What did Fury eat during camp? How does he get through camp looking so fat? I couldn't understand, and Fury doesn't seem committed enough at this point to work hard to get in shape for his fights.
Spinning is 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 the history of British boxing, and everyone will want to see it. This was not a Tyson Fury who looked complete.
“The performance was not flatThe performance wasn't bad. “He didn't look timid or his resistance to punches was in question,” Hearn said, trying hard to paint a positive picture of Fury's loss to Usyk.
“Tyson Fury is He is still at the peak of his powers. AJ vs. Fury is the only one. “One at Wembley and then I come back here for the Riyadh season,” Hearn said of his desire to have two fights between Joshua and Fury in 2025.
Who is Hearn trying to kid here? Anger seemed so terrible last weekend. If Hearn is serious about Fury remaining at his 'peak', it might mean he never evaluated him in the first place because he never looked great during his career.
Even during Fury's best win over 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, he was mostly throwing punches in the air, leaning on the ropes, inviting Vlad the Gunman to throw.
