Usyk picks Joshua to defeat Fury in 2025

Oleksandr Usyk is picking Anthony Joshua to defeat Tyson Fury when the two meet in 2025 for their two fights. It’s not a total shock that Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) would pick AJ to defeat Fury because he has a huge advantage in power, speed and athleticism over Tyson.

Unified heavyweight champion Usyk beat Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) for the second time on Saturday night in Riyadh, and has already defeated Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) twice in 2021 and 2022. From those fights, Usyk had a good indicator of who will come out on top in a showdown between AJ and ‘The Gypsy King’ Fury.

Usyk’s selection

“Maybe it’s Anthony Joshua,” Usyk said Boxing King Media when asked who will win a fight between Joshua and Fury.

“I don’t know, maybe it’s points. I don’t know,” Usyk said about how AJ will defeat the Gypsy King.

Fury was stunned several times by Usyk, losing a 12-round unanimous decision by scores of 116-112 x 3. After the fight, instead of being gracious in defeat, he insisted he should have won and seemed a big loser He showed that he’s one of those types of fighters who will never admit when he’s been beaten. I still don’t know what Turki Alalshikh sees in him.

out of shape

Fury looked fat in the middle, with his trunks stretched past his navel and the referee chose not to insist that he pull his trunk lower. Did the referee not realize how high Fury’s trunks were for that fight?

There was almost no area for Usyk to land his punches on Fury’s midsection given how tall his trunks were. If this fight had been staged in the USA, a referee would have insisted that Fury wear the lower trunk.

Fury’s weight was too high at 281, and I couldn’t believe that he supposedly lived like a monk during his three-month training camp, not talking to his family because he supposedly trained so much.

What did Fury eat during camp? How does he walk through a camp and look so fat? I couldn’t understand it, and it doesn’t seem like Fury is dedicated enough at this point to work hard to get in decent shape for his fights.

Turn a loss

“There’s only one fight for Tyson Fury and that’s Anthony Joshua,” Eddie Hearn told DAZN Boxing on Saturday night. “It’s the biggest fight in British boxing history and everyone will want to see it. It wasn’t a Tyson Fury that looked finished.

“It was not a flat performanceit wasn’t a bad performance. He didn’t look shy or like his punch resistance was in question,” Hearn said, trying to paint a positive picture of Fury’s loss to Usyk.

“Tyson Fury is still at the peak of his powers. AJ vs. Fury is the only one. One at Wembley and then back here for the Riyadh season,” Hearn said of wanting to make two fights between Joshua and Fury in 2025.

Who is trying to trick Hearn here? Fury looked absolutely awful last weekend. If Hearn is serious about Fury continuing to win in his “peak” powers, it could mean he never valued him in the first place because he never looked good during his career.

Even during Fury’s best win against a 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, he mostly threw punches in the air, leaning against the ropes, inviting gunslinger Wlad to throw.