John Fury HEADBUTTS one of Oleksandr Usyk's team at the media day
Tyson Fury suffered his first professional loss against Oleksandr Usyk in RiyadhA year or so after Lennox Lewis had become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, he fought David Tua, a heavy-handed New Zealander, in November 2000 at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas for the WBC, IBF and IBO versions of the crown.
I still remember it as one of the best boxing displays I have ever seen. It was the sweet science brought to life. Lewis taught Tua, and everybody watching at ringside, a boxing lesson in how to defuse a potentially troublesome opponent.He was rocked badly by Usyk in the ninth round and went on to lose on points to the Ukrainian
There were times, in the middle rounds of their epic encounter in Saudi Arabia, when Fury did make the fight look like a physical mismatch but then he became distracted by the need to taunt Usyk and showboat for the audience and he allowed Usyk, a master strategist, to adapt his plan and claw his way back into the fight. No wonder that Lewis, who was at ringside, criticised Fury’s tactics.
I don’t set too much store by either of those things. They are certainly less significant than the way boxing has done its best to look the other way over Fury’s two-year drugs ban for nandrolone, an anabolic steroid, eight years ago, pretend it never happened and present him as a people’s champion.
Usyk belongs in that category, certainly, but not Fury. Wladimir Klitschko was a good champion, not a great one, and Fury dethroned him in 2015 a couple of weeks before Klitschko’s 40th birthday when the Ukrainian fighter was only one fight away from the end of his career.Fury could not get the job done, and should now be seen as a very good rather than a great heavyweight
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