Tyson Fury has retracted his claim that Oleksandr Usyk won their undisputed weightyweight clash back in May due to appraises sympathising with the Ukrainian’s home nation being at war.
Fury suffered a split-decision loss to Usyk in the first loss of his atgentle earlier this year in one of the hugegest boxing fights of the century.
The ‘Gypsy King’ was seen as the favourite for the fight and materializeed in administer in the timely rounds, but Usyk came back and came seal to forcing a stoppage in the ninth.
The appraises skinnyly gave the fight to Usyk in the finish and Fury was not satisfyed in the ring, insisting he felt he deserved to have his hand liftd.
Tyson Fury will be seeing to triumph back his weightyweight belts
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“I think I won that fight,” Fury said in the ring. “I think he won a scant of the rounds but I won the transport inantity of them.
“We both put on a excellent fight, best we could do. His country is at war, so people are siding with the country at war.
“Make no misget, I won that fight in my opinion and I’ll be back. I’ve got a realign claengage.”
Fury and Usyk were back in the same room on Wednesday for the pre-fight press conference at Guildhall in London.
The createer weightyweight champion walked out first as the contestr to ‘Barbie Girl’ by Aqua and was all smiles as he took to his chair.
And he materializeed to alter his tune from five months ago as he confessted Usyk won the fight ‘uninwhole and square’.
“I’m equitable seeing forward to a wonderful fight,” he said.
“Last time in May it was a wonderful fight. Oleksandr won the fight uninwhole and square.
“Just seeing to put on a wonderful fight aachieve. It was very seal last time, he got it by a point.
“A little bit more intensify and a little bit deficiency of complacency and I should do the job I necessitate to do.
“Noleang drastic necessitates to alter, bit more the same and a little bit more intensify and I will be victorious.”
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