Via Allan Fox: WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (32-0-1, 23 KOs) immediately ended the conversation about him fighting winner Anthony Joshua vs. Oleksandr Usyk after an easy sixth-round knockout win over Dillian Whyte (28-3, 19 KOs) on Saturday night at Wembley Stadium in London.
It’s smart that Fury retires now because he’s definitely going to lose to Usyk or Joshua the way he looks tonight.
Those guys have elements in their game that can nullify Fury’s slow swing, electric discharge right hand, and his bad habit of holding hands a lot.
Whyte looks old, slow, saggy and like the boxer who knocked out 40-year-old Alexander Povetkin in March 2021. It’s not that Fury impresses because he’s unimpressive, but that’s the case with Whyte right. than. completely not enough.
Fury wins the fight based on his size rather than his skill. We’ve seen Mariusz Wach 6’7″ give Dillian pure hell in 2019, dealing heavy blows. Whyte has been beaten more by Wach than Fury. There’s no comparison, and Wach is a contender. ageless at that time.
Fury said, “I’ve done,” and then kick off the show plan, starting with UFC heavyweight Francis Ngannou. It would be safer for Fury to fight Ngannou, who has no boxing experience and would be an easier prey, than if he were to go up against winner Joshua-Usyk 2 and possibly lose.
To show how seriously Fury, 33, wants to fight the next Ngannou, he invited him for an ESPN post-fight interview. It seems cheap that Fury would use that moment to start selling a game that doesn’t sit well with Ngannou to his fans.
Fury has made it clear that he will be fighting 35-year-old Ngannou, who has no chance of winning. Ngannou will be the fodder for Dillian any top 15 heavyweight contender.
“I’ve been playing this game for 20 years; I’m 34 in a few months. This is definitely the end of the royal concubine out with a bang. Tonight was great, but this is the end,” Fury said.
“Dillian Whyte is a warrior, and I believe Dillian will be the world champion, but tonight he met someone amazing in the sport. I’m one of the all-time heavyweights, and unfortunately for Dillian Whyte, he’s up against me here tonight.”
After stopping him in the sixth round, Fury went overboard by sending 34-year-old Whyte swoon with praise. Let’s be clear. Whyte will NOT be world champion.
True, Whyte will take years of wins to get in place for another world championship, and beating the top guys for a second chance at the title is unrealistic for him.
You could argue that Whyte got the title against Fury because he chose not to fight Luis Ortiz in a WBC-ordered title knockout. If Whyte had fought Ortiz, he might have been knocked out. To replace.
Whyte chose not to fight for a WBC title remover until the sanctioning agency ordered him to take on Oscar Rivas, essentially a gimme. Rivas did nothing to rank fights in a WBC title elimination.
“You still have the other big boys, Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua, and Oleksandr Usyk; let them punch each other to pieces, but they won’t punch me in pieces because I’m done,‘ Fury said.
As for Fury, it seems weak that he chose to retire without fighting Usyk or Joshua because either of those two would be better than anyone he’s fought before.
If Fury cares about his background, he’ll stay to fight winner Joshua-Usyk. Some boxing fans believe Fury will wait to see if Joshua wins that bout.
If he does, Fury will fight him because it’s a fight that can make him a lot of money. Even if Fury loses to Joshua, which he will likely do, he will make a lot of money.
Usyk is a bad style opponent for Fury, and he will take advantage of the slow and sloppy 6’9″ Gypsy King of the past two years.
