Opetaia believes the fury could have been shown more against Usyk

Jai Opetaia says he would have liked to have seen Tyson Fury do more in his loss to unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk on December 21 in Riyadh. He expected former WBC champion Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) to show a “different version” of himself in the second fight with Usyk (23-0, 14 KOs), but he couldn’t. do it

Fury, 36, was different from the first fight. It was much, much worse and it looked like he didn’t even try to win the fight. It could be that Fury, with his adopted look of Fagin from the film Oliver Twist, was afraid of being knocked out. So he played it safe and didn’t show Fagin’s ruthless and cunning traits to manipulate his way to victory.

The results were 116-112 x 3 for Usyk. As in the first fight, Fury refuses to accept his defeat and complains that he deserves the victory. He made a fuss at the post-fight press conference, saying, “I believe until the day I die that I won the fight.It’s a shame his promoters didn’t kill him to shut down his hood. It looked like a classic example of a poor sport in total denial. I scored it 118-110 for Usyk. It wasn’t even close.

Analysis of Opetaia

“I wanted a different version of Fury. I wanted him to do more, but I guess it was the same kind of thing. Usyk is just an animal. He’s a beast,” said Jai Opetaia The Stomping Groundreacting to Oleksandr Usyk’s victory over Tyson Fury in their rematch on December 21.

“He’s a badass bunny. He just doesn’t stop. It’s hard to beat a great fighter like that. Hats off to Usyk because you can’t fake these things. It’s hard work to be able to box like that for 12 rounds. That’s hard work, so you have to be able to respect that.

“If it happens, it happens. I’m always open,” Opetaia said when asked if he would be interested in fighting Usyk if he returns to the cruiserweight division. He would never rule out a fight like that. It’s a fight I would take with both hands 100%.

There was nothing Fury could do to win the rematch. What a working time machine needed to bring back the young version of 2015 for the Usyk fight. This old version couldn’t do that.

“Right now I’m focused on the eighth. I have a job to do. Let’s do it,” Opetaia said of his title defense against IBF No. 10 contender David Nyika.