Tonight in Saudi Arabia, Oleksandr Usyk defeated Tyson Fury via decision, making him the first man since Lennox Lewis to hold the lineal championship and the heavyweight titles of all four sanctioning bodies.
I don’t follow boxing very closely, but I’ve been wanting someone to take Fury down a peg for years now, so good for him.
Why Saudi Arabia? I was totally unaware of a big boxing tradition there.
They don’t, but they do have a growing tradition of sportswashing.
The nobility has more momey than God and is more than willing to spend it to attract major sporting competitions to impress their citizens and keep them complacent.
Same way they got Fury to wrestle at a WWE show in 2019.
You might like this then (Fury getting hit):
Never a big boxing fan, but I’m kind of intrigued by this. From everything I’ve seen and heard about Tyson Fury, he’s Ranma Saotome without the crossdressing. Quick hands, lightning reactions, slick as a snake. Not the hardest hitter, but it’s next to impossible to land anything big on him, and anyone foolish enough to force the issue pays the price on the mat. A highly effective, if not especially glamorous, style. Anyone good enough to beat him would almost certainly have to be very sharp, very patient, and very opportunistic, and have the stamina to run all over the ring for 12 rounds, and even then it was likely to be very close (which it was).
All of a sudden I want to know…not urgently, just open curiosity…who this Oleksandr Usyk is and how he was able to get to the top of the mountain. Any word on the street from someone who actually saw the fight?