Frank Warren walks back on ROBBERY, still thinks Tyson Fury beat heavyweight king Oleksandr Usyk
Frank Warren walks back robbery claim for the Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury heavyweight showdown on DAZN PPV; still adamant on scores.
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Frank Warren does homework, reshapes robbery thoughts on Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury 2 (Source: X)
Prominent boxing promoter Frank Warren is changing his tune on how he saw the Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury heavyweight showdown. Fury challenged the champ in a bid for his WBA, WBO, and WBC titles and failed, again. Warren was on hand to see the domination in their DAZN Pay-per-view (PPV) matchup.
The Ukrainian boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk beat the Brit with a masterclass and a lopsided 116-112 on all three judges’ scorecards. Frank Warren, promoter of Fury, made headlines following Saturday’s rematch saying Tyson Fury got “robbed.” The Queensberry Promotions chief also billed the scoring as a Christmas gesture to appease Usyk. He still stands by the thought that Fury won, but now how.
I thought it was a closer fight on TV than what I’ve seen there, but I still think Tyson just won it, …Not nicked it, I think it was a close fight, and that’s how I scored it.
Frank Warren to Seconds Out Boxing (@boxing)
Tyson thought it good to weigh even more than the 262lbs he weighed in the first domination yesteryear ago. “The Cat” stuck to his usual tactile disposition and ramped up the pressure in the later frames. His performance is something that has cemented him as the biggest of heavyweight sensations that only time can erode.
Harder to feint to and an unavailable frame to land on, Fury made it hard. Props to “Gypsy King” because this time around he actually held his own and went the stretch. However, the boxing promoter cues in the excuse that Usyk vs. Fury will always be competitive. Notwithstanding the pish-posh, he thus refutes the scoring yet again.
Frank Warren on a hard pass to change his mind about the scores
Five world champions are considerable for the ‘2024 Fighter of the Year’ moniker. One name rises above the rest like Artur Beterbiev, Canelo Alvarez, Gilberto ‘Zurdo’ Ramirez, and IBF, WBA, WBC, and WBO super bantamweight champ Naoya ‘Monster’ Inoue. That’d be Oleksandr Usyk.
23-0 with 14 stoppages, of Simferopol, Crimea, Ukraine, “Cat” is the brand face champ who defeated the former WBC lineal with relative ease, twice! The witch’s brew of Tyson Fury’s age, plump cardio, and obnoxiously tightrope trunks saw him connect 144 of 509 for 28% of shots, maximum.
Usyk did double that and his tactile train, flow, and footwork were not all that different as well. Till now, he has dominated twice over British KO artists Fury and Anthony Joshua. Despite being on the smaller side of things, the champ usually showcases immense ring IQ at heavyweight. However, Frank Warren decidedly refutes the judge’s scores:
I don’t change my mind about the judge’s scorecards, which was my beef. I wasn’t moaning about the result of the fight, I was moaning about the way they scored it. I don’t see how one judge didn’t give Tyson a single round for the last seven rounds, that is impossible. I watched that back, and I’ve been around a long time, and I’ve seen it and I don’t know how he got it.
Frank Warren further said
Patrick Morley from the United States, Ignacio Robles from Panama, and Gerardo Martinez from Puerto Rico — all scored the same for the champ. Warren said Usyk didn’t log much in the last seven rounds and sticks to that. A prime reason for this could be the future.
Under his own didactics, Fury and Joshua are to battle twice in a “Battle of Britain“. Both AJ and he are fresh from losses. It’d be a better optic and PPV sweet spotlight if Fury came off as more dominant in his previous settings. Their fame is dwindling faster than an unlikely Daniel Dubois is spearheading toward a Usyk-shaped matchup. So, Warren’s stance and frustrations are understandable.
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