RBR ***Official*** Sherdog Sanctioned Usyk vs. Fury 2: Reignited 12/21 11AM ET (DAZN)

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After 24 rounds shared in the ring, Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury will forever be linked for their two wars together in the squared circle, but the history books will remember one man as the victor of their storied rivalry.

Usyk put his stamp on the feud Saturday night with a masterful 12-round performance that resulted in him retaining his WBA, WBO, WBC and Ring Magazine heavyweight titles by unanimous decision (116-112, 116-112, 116-112) in the DAZN main event at Freedom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Usyk (23-0, 14 KOs) had to storm back in their first fight after a slow start, but that was not the case in the rematch. The defending champ took the fight to the 281-pound challenger and backed up the larger man with a stellar right hand. Usyk’s up-and-down erratic head movement bothered the slick boxer-puncher, and the former Ukrainian gold medalist was in control of the pace for the evening.

Fury (34-2-1) fought like a true champion, but it was not enough to get his hand raised, even as he presented danger for the entirety of the 36-minute encounter. Fury sniped Usyk with jabs and uppercuts, using his weight to push the champion around when he could. Unfortunately, at 36, the Manchester, England, native’s legs simply couldn’t keep up with the former cruiserweight titleholder’s pace and footwork.

With the win, Usyk retains three of four major belts in boxing, and has his sights set on a unification match with London’s Daniel Dubois, the owner of the remaining IBF strap. Usyk previously defeated Dubois in 2023, and would be instilled as a large favorite in their rematch. Dubois stormed the ring after Usyk’s victory, demanding they fight again. Usyk calmly remarked to the Saudi Arabian showrunners that they should put it together.

The undercard produced several thrilling matchups. In the co-main event, Moses Itauma (21-0, 11 KOs) destroyed Demsey McKean (22-2) in the first round of their heavyweight clash. Prior to that, Serhii Bohachuk stopped Ishmael Davis after six rounds to become the mandatory challenger for the WBC 154-pound belt; undefeated heavyweight Johnny Fisher survived a fifth-round knockdown to edge out David Allen by split decision (95-94, 93-96, 95-94); Scottish featherweight Lee McGregor (15-1-1) outworked England’s Isaac Lowe in a 10-round bout by unanimous decision (96-92, 97-91, 97-91); former Olympian Peter McGrail (11-1) handed Rhys Edwards (16-1) his first career defeat by a razor-thin unanimous decision (96-95, 96-94, 96-94); unbeaten Ukrainian light heavyweight prospect Daniel Lapin cruised to his 11th career win against Dylan Colin (100-90, 99-91, 99-91); heavyweight Andrii Novytskyi (15-0) survived his toughest test in Edgar Ramirez in a fight where the scorecards didn’t tell the entire story (100-90, 100-90, 98-92); 20-year-old super featherweight Mohammed Alakel started the night off by improving to 2-0 courtesy of a lopsided decision (60-53, 60-53, 60-53) over Joshua Ocampo (8-34-1).

Oleksandr Usyk Outpoints Tyson Fury in Heavyweight Classic

After 24 rounds shared in the ring, Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury will forever be linked for their two wars together in the squared circle, but the history books will remember one man as the victor of their storied rivalry.

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[babyjatt2016]

i wanted Fury to win to see the third rematch but the smaller guy Ucysk was too good. Hats off and respect for this Ukrainian master class boxer!

 

[BEATDOWNS]

^ moron

^absolutely one huunit percent triggered. Lol

 

[dog y]

Remember when Usyk was supposedly too small and had too little power to beat these HWs?

Yall enjoying that crow youre chewing on?

Well, he's small by today's HW standards. And not very powerful. Being absolutely unmatched at everything else more than makes up for that.
HW King. Boxing King. This man is simply astounding.

 

[Jonny Ninja]

It's wild because a few years ago, England was set to be the mecca of Heavyweight boxing then this fleet footed lad from Crusierweight pops up and trashes them all.


Usyk should get a shit ton of credit for winning the vast majority of his fights in enemy territory. Turki was out here trashing Usyk all week and Usyk was like Mr Excellency, respectfully, fuck you and your oddly shaped boy.

Moses itauma looks pretty good! Ironically HW boxing has never been so healthy in Britain as it is right now

As for usyk, he’s a generational fighter imo! Without doubt current p4p no1. A true great of the sport

 

[TITS]

^absolutely one huunit percent triggered. Lol

Aren't you like 50 years old?

 

[HHJ]

Usyk:

Fight was not easy, but easier than first one.

I respect Tyson Fury very much, he is a tough opponent. He brings out the best in me. He is a good man.

Uncle Frank is blind. He is crazy. Ok no problem. I win.

Devotes victory to Mom and all Ukranian mothers.

Oddly, someone in the media talked to Usyk a question in Russian or Ukrainian and his manager asked him to please say it in english and the media guy refused to do it.

There was a cool story behind the Sabre which Usyk displayed.

I like to motivate people and give them incentive to do something.

I have will and motivation to continue fighting.

I dont have message for Dubois.

His manager reiterated that Dubois has another fight lined up,and its too early to bring up his name

Today my sons won belts in Judo, and they said "hey papa, you are next!" so they helped motivate me for tonight.

When asked about Cruiserweight: I am going to rest and play with my children and not think about boxing for a while.

 

[BEATDOWNS]

Aren't you like 50 years old?

No.

 

[Superzorro]

Usyk won but like usual people are exaggerating how much he dominated and his "skill." Fury's got to be one of the slowest, most unathletic heavyweights I've ever seen in the ring. And I don't know where this concept of Fury being a master boxer came from. His size allows him to use the opposite of proper technique against lesser opponents - that's it. This era of HWs is just really weak.

 

[MotorCityCobra]

Bizarre seeing here and many other sites anyone scoring it for Fury. Their first fight was much closer on points, although Fury fought much better in this fight he incrementally lost round after round.

What alot are missing is this fight was very similar to their first fight. Round 5 was all fury and Usyk seemed spent.

Round 6 he hurt Fury with a left that changed the whole dynamic of the fight. Arguably sweeping the last 6. Same in last fight in round 7 or 8 Fury had all the momentum Usyk hit him in the eye socket, Fury pawed at it, then began biting more and more on everything.

There were 3 or 4 swing. Usyk won 6 clear (4, 6,7,10,11,12) Tyson won 2 (2 and 5)

Boxing is scored on clean punching, effective aggression, and ring generalship.

Usyk landed more clean punches in nearly every round. Was the aggressor while being much smaller. And was defending better throughout the whole fight.

10-2 usyk is definitely an acceptable score (i liked 8-4) and a decision for Fury would've been asinine.

 

[Kovalev's "Man Bag"]

Usyk won but like usual people are exaggerating how much he dominated and his "skill." Fury's got to be one of the slowest, most unathletic heavyweights I've ever seen in the ring. And I don't know where this concept of Fury being a master boxer came from. His size allows him to use the opposite of proper technique against lesser opponents - that's it. This era of HWs is just really weak.

Are Joshua & Dubois unathletic and slow? If you don't realize how skilled Usyk is to be beating guys twice his size then you're ignorant. In the last 45 years only a couple other cruiserweight champs managed to win world titles at heavyweight and one of them is an ATG named Evander Holyfield. Heavyweight may not have the talent it used to but Usyk unified the most stacked cruiserweight division since its inception in 1979.

 

[MotorCityCobra]

AI scored it 118/112.... What kind of score is that?

Sensible but didn't see the actual card.

Fury clearly won 2 and 5. Maybe 1 and either 8 or 9 even.

Hopefully this type of thing gets more traction. Fights are scored BY ROUND. If someone clearly wins 7 while doing close to nothing and gets battered in 5 rounds they still win. For some reason that seems lost on general boxing public.

 

[HHJ]

Usyk won but like usual people are exaggerating how much he dominated and his "skill." Fury's got to be one of the slowest, most unathletic heavyweights I've ever seen in the ring. And I don't know where this concept of Fury being a master boxer came from. His size allows him to use the opposite of proper technique against lesser opponents - that's it. This era of HWs is just really weak.

Oh whatever.

Fury been undefeated this whole time, until Usyk come his way.

Just quit watching.

 

[Substance Abuse]

Bizarre seeing here and many other sites anyone scoring it for Fury. Their first fight was much closer on points, although Fury fought much better in this fight he incrementally lost round after round.

What alot are missing is this fight was very similar to their first fight. Round 5 was all fury and Usyk seemed spent.

Round 6 he hurt Fury with a left that changed the whole dynamic of the fight. Arguably sweeping the last 6. Same in last fight in round 7 or 8 Fury had all the momentum Usyk hit him in the eye socket, Fury pawed at it, then began biting more and more on everything.

There were 3 or 4 swing. Usyk won 6 clear (4, 6,7,10,11,12) Tyson won 2 (2 and 5)

Boxing is scored on clean punching, effective aggression, and ring generalship.

Usyk landed more clean punches in nearly every round. Was the aggressor while being much smaller. And was defending better throughout the whole fight.

10-2 usyk is definitely an acceptable score (i liked 8-4) and a decision for Fury would've been asinine.

Pretty much how I saw it, but I continued to get shit all play by play. I had it 9-3. Got laughed at. I realize some rounds were close and 8-4 is more than okay. Good post.

 

[MMALOPEZ]

 

[Culombo]

huh this is petty nonsense ... warren wtf ?

 

[HHJ]

Are Joshua & Dubois unathletic and slow? If you don't realize how skilled Usyk is to be beating guys twice his size then you're ignorant. In the last 45 years only a couple other cruiserweight champs managed to win world titles at heavyweight and one of them is an ATG named Evander Holyfield. Heavyweight may not have the talent it used to but Usyk unified the most stacked cruiserweight division since its inception in 1979.

And even after all that, Usyk himself, the Gold medalist cruiser/HW undisputed champion says that his fights with Fury were his toughest in his whole career.

Def forum members though, def know more than him.

 

[Kovalev's "Man Bag"]

And even after all that, Usyk himself, the Gold medalist cruiser/HW undisputed champion says that his fights with Fury were his toughest in his whole career.

Def forum members though, def know more than him.

Fury still gave him a good fight but he needed to win more rounds in both fights. His ridiculous size, height & reach advantages will always be tough to overcome for a fighter that's dwarfed as badly as Usyk was.

 

[ComfortablyNumb55]

Imagine trying to outbox instead of the mauling approach.

Fury learned nothing.

Yikes.

 

[The XL]

I mean I'm not surprised. Size in combat sports is a little overrated when talking about in shape men over 200lbs, especially over 220lbs. It becomes a point of diminishing returns where you're sacrificing one physical attribute for another. Tyson dominated as a 220lber before drugs/laziness, now Usyk has. I know Wilder is tall as fuck but he was only about 215lbs at his best. For MMA, Randy Couture was like 222lbs when beating guys like Gonzaga and Sylvia who were way larger.