First claiming his Could resolution loss to Oleksandr Usyk got here off the again of the latter’s native Ukraine’s involvement in a battle with neighboring, Russia, former WBC heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury has now claimed the bout was “too straightforward” for him.
Fury, a former WBC heavyweight champion, headlined a large title unification conflict with the unbeaten, Usyk earlier this yr in Riyadh, struggling his first skilled boxing loss in a shocking resolution defeat to the Ukraine star.
Dropping a cut up resolution loss, Fury – who was dropped within the ninth spherical after a prolonged and livid barrage from Usyk, has already agreed to combat the latter in an instantaneous rematch for the championships, with the second pairing between the 2 slated for late December in a return to Saudi Arabia.
Tyson Fury calls Oleksandr Usyk an “beginner boxer”
And providing up a myriad of causes to why he misplaced towards Usyk again in Could, Morecambe native, Fury has described the undisputed champion as an “beginner” boxer, skill-wise, and claimed he has having “an excessive amount of enjoyable” within the bout.
“It [the fight] was really loads simpler than I assumed it might be, the (Oleksandr) Usyk combat,” Tyson Fury mentioned on his podcast. “Lots simpler. Folks saying, ‘Oh, he’s a tough man to hit.’ I used to be lighting him up with three, four-punch mixtures, laughing at him. My drawback in that combat: I most likely had an excessive amount of enjoyable. It was most likely too straightforward.”
“At occasions, it was too straightforward,” Tyson Fury defined. “It was like I used to be in there with a neighborhood beginner boxer, and I used to be simply having fun with it, an excessive amount of, messing round. Padi the last word value in spherical 9 the place I bought a 10-8 spherical and bought clipped. That’s what occurs when you could have an excessive amount of enjoyable. They at all times inform me ‘By no means combine your work with having enjoyable’ and I at all times gave them the center finger, and it’s now come again to me.”
Following his loss to Usyk, footage emerged earlier this month of Fury being escorted from a bar in his native Morecambe Bay, earlier than hitting his head on the pavement outdoors the venue within the UK.
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