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Phenomenal scrap, I give it to Usyk by a comfortable margin though, despite there being 3-4 very close rounds.

He deserves to be undisputed & retain his 0, imo.
 
Hmm. Split decision. Still, Usyk won.

Question: does that end differently if Fury doesn’t have a gimpy eye going into the fight. The cut seemed to be the turning point, no?
 
Usyk is straight up elite. Hopefully Anderson and torrez are legit. Kabayel might be, too. Let’s have an elite Hw division for the first time in forever.
 
lecoqsportif said:
Hmm. Split decision. Still, Usyk won.

Question: does that end differently if Fury doesn’t have a gimpy eye going into the fight. The cut seemed to be the turning point, no?
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I didn’t particularly think it was….Usyk caught him early with a shot to the nose that had him bothered early…(had Usyk up 2-0 after two) Tyson then came back working the jab & uppercut perfectly, He took control of the fight for a stretch that made it seem like he had it in the bag tbh…But Usyk kept digging, and I thought won the 7th, and then likely KO’s him if not for Tyson being saved by the bell.

Thought his performance in the 12th was quietly spectacular too 4-5 big defining shots, after a grueling scrap that had them both looking spent.

….that he gave away 39 pounds to a HW of this pedigree and delivered that performance is something real damn special.
 
Think Usyk earned Tyson slowing down to be caught, with all the body work he invested in early on, and keeping Tyson fighting at a gruelling pace even when Fury was winning rounds.

(At the same time, I thought when Tyson got to working the body in the middle rounds he looked like it would be the turning point for him to cruise to victory.)

They both turned in great performances.
 
The more I sit with this fight, the more blown away I am with it….you think of the collection of names & belts accumulated over their 45 combined fights heading into it, without a single loss. Then the fight itself has the kind of ebbs and flows you dream of for any big matchup, that included both of them showing off technical mastery to own the portions of the fight they did (versus its being a Ryan Garcia or Wilder moment where one big punch out of nowhere is what did it)…..like that stretch of the fight where Fury took over, he looked about as dominant and in control as ever. The combo of his jab finding its range, and the uppercut landing at will anytime Usyk tried to close the distance, and then Fury adding a barrage of body shots to his output for the first time in the fight, and really hurting Usyk with them….(in a way I’m not sure we’ve seen Usyk hurt before?)


It’s just fucking wild how perfectly it all played out, you really couldn’t have scripted it much better….even down to how ideal the optics were of a David vs Goliath, physically.…then on top of it all there was that extra level of satisfaction after the fight when you first think of how Usyk’s win is being felt back in Ukraine. 🇺🇦





Anyways, just an amazing scrap that I’ve grown more and more appreciative of as time goes by…..fucking hell it was great.
 
Montana said:
The more I sit with this fight, the more blown away I am with it….you think of the collection of names & belts accumulated over their 45 combined fights heading into it, without a single loss. Then the fight itself has the kind of ebbs and flows you dream of for any big matchup, that included both of them showing off technical mastery to own the portions of the fight they did (versus its being a Ryan Garcia or Wilder moment where one big punch out of nowhere is what did it)…..like that stretch of the fight where Fury took over, he looked about as dominant and in control as ever. The combo of his jab finding its range, and the uppercut landing at will anytime Usyk tried to close the distance, and then Fury adding a barrage of body shots to his output for the first time in the fight, and really hurting Usyk with them….(in a way I’m not sure we’ve seen Usyk hurt before?)


It’s just fucking wild how perfectly it all played out, you really couldn’t have scripted it much better….even down to how ideal the optics were of a David vs Goliath, physically.…then on top of it all there was that extra level of satisfaction after the fight when you first think of how Usyk’s win is being felt back in Ukraine. 🇺🇦





Anyways, just an amazing scrap that I’ve grown more and more appreciative of as time goes by…..fucking hell it was great.
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I think they planned the body work based on what happened in the Dubois fight
 
Nothing in sports beats high level fight sports.

The stakes are so high. The skills required incredible. The intelligence required is astonishing. The short amount of time you'll actually see your favorite fighters. The mental fortitude, the dedication, the pressure, the self-belief, the gameness, the gumption... No other sports have such a combination of valuable and, frankly, commendable traits that prize fighters have.

So when you have a Crawford-Spence, a Usyk-Fury, (maybe soon a Lomachenko-Tank?), a Volk-Makhachev (first fight)... And the fight delivers?

There's never been an individual moment in hockey, football, whatever sport you want to name, that made me go crazy like Volk-Ortega round 3. Like Holloway-Gaethje's final seconds of the fight (Or almost any Gaethje fight). Like Gustafsson-Jones 1 in round 4. Like Condit-Lawler round 5 (Robbery of the year, btw). Like Gatti-Ward round 9. Like Lesnar-Carwin round 1. Like Poirier-Hooker. Like Big Nog-Sapp in Pride. Like the staredown between CroCop & Wanderlei, and more recently Pereira & Prochazka. Adesanya-Gastelum, when Adesenya had to go through hell to get through Gastelum, and you could see him talking to himself before round 5. I'm prepared to die.

High level combattants are such a different type of human beings, it's almost impossible to comprehend.

I repeat it over & over, but appreciate 'em while they're here. The kings of MMA violence at Lightweight (Gaethje, Poirier, Alvarez, Oliveira, Chandler, Ferguson, Cerrone) are either retired, about to leave the sport or completely washed. Poirier's fighting in a week & a half, and it might be the last fight in his storied career if he loses. Alexander Usyk's 38 years old, he doesn't have much left. I think he has two more fights before he calls it quits.
 
Makhachev - Poirier is going down in less than a week.

Poirier said that win or lose, this is probably his last fight besides maybe a big money fight (McGregor?) because he's done climbing up the ladder.
 
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