Tyson Fury has automatically refused to accept the overwhelming weight of reality after the second thrashing he received from Oleksandr Usyk in the rematch last week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where the scorecards gave the victory to the famous Ukrainian ‘Cat’, which immediately caused the shadows of doubt to be cast over the fight.
And the ‘Gipsy King’ not only did not accept the result of this rematch, but went back to the past, calling into question the result of their first fight, once again. The problem with this is that the British fighter lost both fights and in his outdated reality he refuses to recognize that Usyk is superior to him and that he has made it very clear. “I feel like I won both fights,” he said at the post-fight press conference.
Gypsy King’s wrong strategy?
In light of the decision, scored 116-112 in favor of Usyk, many have begun to analyze not only the fight, but also Fury’s speech, and one of them, Chael Sonnen, a former MMA fighter, made one of the most extreme.
Sonnen said quite frankly that “the fight was close”, but that Fury’s defeat was due to an extreme miscalculation: his decision to substantially increase his weight before the rematch for which he went into “beast mode”, even isolating himself from his own family for months.
Fury arrived ‘chubby’ for Usyk rematch
According to Sonnen, Fury “consumed more calories than he burned. He fought well, but in the distance I think he should have come in 20 pounds lighter. A 20-pound weight gain does nothing but slow you down“.
The reality is that Fury faced the rematch weighing 281 pounds, 55 pounds heavier than Usyk, in an incredible miscalculation that is not known whether it was the responsibility of his corner, the intention to gain muscle mass or the lack of control of the boxer himself in the extreme circumstances in which he himself wanted to get into, arguing concentration and focus only on the figure of his great sporting enemy.
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