Tyson Fury doesn’t believe he was “robbed” of a victory in his first fight with Oleksandr Usyk.
The former WBC heavyweight champion has watched footage of the extremely competitive 12-round bout that resulted in his only professional loss “100 times,” Fury told Uncrowned. The brash Brit is certain that he did enough to defeat Usyk and become boxing’s first fully unified heavyweight champion of the four-belt era.
Seven months of hindsight have nonetheless encouraged Fury to account for human error in the completely subjective science of judging boxing. This sport’s most spectacular showman isn’t sure what American Mike Fitzgerald, who scored Usyk a 114-113 winner, or Spain’s Manuel Palomo, who credited Usyk with a 115-112 win, could see from their potentially obstructed positions around the ring.