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Topics: Boxing, Boxing News, Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk
Jack Kenmare
Topics: Boxing, Boxing News, Tyson Fury, Oleksandr Usyk
Footage has emerged of Tyson Fury's immediate reaction to his controversial defeat to Oleksandr Usyk – and it speaks volumes.
Usyk produced a solid display in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday night as he defeated Fury by unanimous decision (116-112, 116-112, 116-112) to retain his WBC, WBO and WBA heavyweight world titles.
It was a controversial decision, to say the least. In fact, as the Ukrainian fighter was asked if the scorecards were correct in his post-fight interview, a disappointed Fury walked out of the ring.
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Moments later, The 'Gypsy King' bumped into former trainer Ben Davison as he made his way towards the dressing room.
Fury began the conversation by asking: "What do you think, truthfully?"
Davison replied: "I thought it was dead tight. I thought you were going to get it, if I'm being honest."
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Fury, clearly aggrieved by the judges scorecard, hit back: "I swear to god, I thought I'd won it by at least three rounds."
Back in the ring, Fury's promoter Frank Warren took over interview duties and well, he was far from happy with the final result.
Armed with what appeared to be a paper copy of all three scorecards from the event, Warren told Ade Oladipo: "It's nuts. Did you have him as only winning four rounds out of eight?"
He added: "Very harsh. It's nuts. I don't get it. But it is what it is, and we'll see what happens in the future with Tyson."
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Minutes later, TNT Sports reporter Jaydee Dyer spoke to Warren outside the ring, with the promoter analysing each copy of the scorecard he had been given while speaking to the camera.
He claimed: "Tyson was dumbfounded. They gave him four rounds out of the 12, which is impossible.
"I've been around a long time and I know I'm biased, but one judge didn't give him, any rounds from round six onwards. Look! No rounds. How can that be? That's impossible.
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"Same with the other judge. They gave him one round in the last six, and the same here with this guy. It's crazy. I'm calm and collected, I'm not screaming and shouting. That is a nonsense.
"Oscar de la Hoya had him [Fury] winning by three or four rounds. And he's a neutral."
You can watch that moment in full below:
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