Fury v Usyk is on.............!

[Master]

Fury disputed the result in the immediate aftermath and maintains the belief that he did enough to get his arm raised.

"I've watched the fight back lots and still got the same answer - I thought I won," Fury said on his YouTube channel, external.

"Usyk knows he didn't beat me. It was actually a lot easier than I thought it'd be.

"My problem was I probably had too much fun. It was too easy. It was like I was in there with a local amateur boxer.

"I was enjoying it too much, messing around and paid the ultimate price in round nine."

A rematch between former WBC champion Fury, 35, and Usyk has been scheduled for 21 December and the Englishman says he is already "back in the gym" preparing.

"I've got to get him out of there because I'm not gonna get a decision," Fury said.

"It's unfortunate because it's hard enough to win a fight just by winning it, never mind knowing you've got to knock someone out.

"I'm confident and looking forward to the challenge. I hear he's got a broken jaw and a broken eye socket, so get yourself well and I'll see you in December."

There are doubts over whether the undisputed title will be on the line again, with sanctioning body the IBF considering stripping Usyk of the belt as he will not be making a mandatory defence next.

Usyk has requested an "exception" to keep hold of the belt for the rematch.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/boxing/a...s/cj77vvzj3vlo

[X]

I quite liked Fury back in the day. He was funny and entertaining, he was a very skilled fighter with a great chin and a good engine.

Since then he has failed a drug test, gone off the rails outside the ring, cherry picked nobodies while trolling every contender going, fought a guy in his first professional boxing match, and not really delivered in the ring.

He hasn’t done much for the sport, for how he will be remembered, never mind his ridiculous claims that he is the best heavyweight of all time.

I thought he turned up in the best shape he could possibly be against Usyk, probably shaded the first half of the fight …. But then gassed out, got worked out and was very lucky indeed to survive the distance.

Not the performance of someone who thinks he would have beaten Joe Louis and Ali on the same night

[Mark TKO]

yeah wish he could admit Usyk probably nicked it - albeit on the back of end of round 9.

It's an intriguing rematch and gives him another target in life.

He is the comeback king. One more time.

Hopefully he'll be more humble in the build up and go back to being the Fury of two years ago we all warmed to.

[TitoFan]

I quite liked Fury back in the day. He was funny and entertaining, he was a very skilled fighter with a great chin and a good engine.

Since then he has failed a drug test, gone off the rails outside the ring, cherry picked nobodies while trolling every contender going, fought a guy in his first professional boxing match, and not really delivered in the ring.

He hasn’t done much for the sport, for how he will be remembered, never mind his ridiculous claims that he is the best heavyweight of all time.

I thought he turned up in the best shape he could possibly be against Usyk, probably shaded the first half of the fight …. But then gassed out, got worked out and was very lucky indeed to survive the distance.

Not the performance of someone who thinks he would have beaten Joe Louis and Ali on the same night

This is one of the better descriptions of Fury and his career I've read in a while, and it's refreshing to read how one can like a fighter at first... then fall off the "fan wagon" as situations develop and unfold.

I share some of those same opinions, except I've done a couple of flip-flops... LOL.

I detested his fight against Wlad, and blamed mostly Fury for that disaster of a fight. It was AJ vs Wlad that made me follow the heavies again. Then in comes Fury to end the Joshua-Wilder soap opera... and I was grateful. Fury-Wilder 1 was an exciting fight.

But yeah... since then it's been everything X just described.

[Spicoli]

Usyk drops the IBF belt and Dubois slips right in as full time champ. This puts some meat on the bone of Dubois v Joshua in Sept. Also does not take away from Usyk v Fury rematch. Was pretty predictable with the prepositioning but something we've come to expect when we see full undisputed. Well for some guys at least.

[Mark TKO]

Expect the next undisputed fight around 2049

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Expect the next undisputed fight around 2049

I had come up with 2038 but you're probably right