Ukraine’s Usyk stuns Tyson Fury, to emerge undisputed heavyweight boxing champion

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Tyson Fury lost his fight to Ukraian boxer, Oleksandr Usyk, who emerged winner of the World Heavyweight championship fight Saturday night in Riyadh.

This makes Oleksandr Usyk the first undisputed heavyweight champion of world since Lennox Lewis a quarter-century ago.

The 12-round bout saw Usyk cautiously approaching Fury and neatly dodging his punches given the later’s longer reach.

Two judges felt the Ukrainian was smart enough to have picked valuable punches to keep the Briton abay and justified his stake for the undisputed titles.

However, Fury said, “I believe I won that fight,” a post-bout wrap-up.

“I believe he won a few of the rounds, but I won majority of them. And I believe it was – what can you do? – one of them decisions in boxing.

“We’ve both put on a good fight. Best we could do. And, you know, his country’s at war. So people are siding with a country at war. But make no mistake, I’ve won that fight in my opinion, and I’ll be back. We’ve got a rematch clause.”

JUDGES’ SCORECARDS
•The first: 115-112 for Usyk.
•The second: 114-113 for Fury.
•The third: 114-113 for Usyk.

So far, Oleksandr Usyk has beaten:
Krzysztof Glowacki in Poland
Michael Hunter in America
Marco Huck in Germany
Mairis Briedis in Latvia
Murat Gassiev in Russia
Tony Bellew in the UK
Derek Chisora in the UK
Anthony Joshua in the UK
Anthony Joshua in Saudi
Daniel Dubois in Poland, and now Tyson Fury in Saudi Arabia to emerge the undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion.

Winning:

WBA

WBC

WBO

IBF

IBO

Ring Magazine