Boxing

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I'll have you a friendly charity £10 wager on Joshua if it ever happens.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Just putting it out therethat I am challenging Usyk to fight for all the belts that he will have left after the IBF have their meeting today.


Cork city centre rules of course.



You have one hour to publically accept, Usykie.


Otherwise everyone will know you ducked me.


Fantastic display by Usyk (not bad for a middleweight rabbit ) and Fury is a lucky man that he was born with natural size and that great durability (and powers of recovery). If he was even a slightly smaller man that fight was ending even before what happened in the ninth round. Usyk was breaking his serve, to shoehorn a tennis expression in there, time after time.

Then again if he was a smaller man he probably would not have been in that fight.

Did laugh though as some ****s on tv yesterday talking about how the British scene was in a very good place to now dominate the sport at heavyweight level then went on to namecheck Fury, Joshua and Dubois as the reasons why.


The same three guys that Usyk beat in his last four fights



The rematch will go the same way imo other than Fury might do a bit better in the early rounds. He just does not have the engine, even when in shape like he was on Saturday, to manage the relentless output that Usyk brings, and his skill set which might look impressive against the likes of Chisora etc pales by comparison to that of Usyk.


Fury, in shape, beats Joshua though if they ever get that retirement fund fight on. Fury's skill set is as much above that of Joshua imo as Usyk's is above Fury's.

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As much as I'm a Fury fan I'm absolutely made up for Usyk

Not sure it can be understated just what.he achieved last night.

In the Super heavy era he's unified titles and cruiser and heavy and became undisputed heavyweight champ

Great achievement. Fantastic boxer and a true warrior. He should just walk away now.
Beat AJ twice then beat the lineal champ to unify. Not his fault the fella was a gangly dosser (coming off a disputed decision against a complete novice) with one good win on his record against an out of sorts Klitschko and defences against decidedly average fighters who'd never have been near title shots 30 years ago.
I doubt Fury even wants AJ now never mind a rematch with Usyk.

Fury will be fondly remembered for his homophobia, drug cheating and epic trilogy against Derek Chisora.

[Kenneth]

Pretty cool ringside footage of the knock down.

https://youtube.com/shorts/fwuKGGmSXXU?si=yqUaBCHe0uQ_cZsN

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As much as I'm a Fury fan I'm absolutely made up for Usyk

Not sure it can be understated just what.he achieved last night.

In the Super heavy era he's unified titles and cruiser and heavy and became undisputed heavyweight champ

[chadrtc]

Good morning.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Fd6e5oQCFdQ?si=QFaXKgod03TMuhGM

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Happy New Year lol

[fabinho]

Called the knock down a little early. Saved.

Its in the rules. The referee was right, if the ropes are the only thing holding the boxer up whilst his opponent is throwing punches, the referee has to call it a knockdown and give him a standing count.

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Fantastic from Usyk

Cruiser to Undisputed heavyweight champ

Amazing

[kingfunk]

Called the knock down a little early. Saved.

[Buzzo]

The ref surely saves Fury here? Literally on the ropes. The ref stepping in denies Usyk the chance to KO?

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[Fivex]

That round 9 was wild.. 20 seconds of relentless pummelling and needed every rope there to stay up

[Buzzo]

Early rounds were close could've gone either way depends how they were scored.

Tyson says he's not going to complain and make excuses in the same sentence where he said that he got the decision because Ukraine is at war. Classless ****. Was out on his feet too, lucky the ref didn't stop it there.

Rematch goes one way for me.

Yeah that was piss poor from Fury. Having to listen to all that ****e from Joshua as well previously he deserves so much more respect. He is a gracious winner. He is a machine.

[Zapater]

I think you're being generous to Fury there.
He won four rounds max in my opinion.

Early rounds were close could've gone either way depends how they were scored.

Tyson says he's not going to complain and make excuses in the same sentence where he said that he got the decision because Ukraine is at war. Classless ****. Was out on his feet too, lucky the ref didn't stop it there.

Rematch goes one way for me.

[Buzzo]

Fury was gone in the 9th. Lucky the fight didn’t get stopped. 10 more seconds and he was done.

Incredibly impressive from Usyk, he looked out of ideas from 2-6.

Cracking fight.