Usyk picks Joshua to beat Fury in 2025

Alexander Usyk is picking Anthony Joshua to beat Tyson Fury when the two meet in 2025. for his two fights. It's not a complete shock that Usyk (23-0, 12 KO) is picking AJ to beat Fury because he has a huge advantage in strength, speed and athleticism over Tyson.

Unified heavyweight champion Usyk defeated Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) for the second time last Saturday night in Riyadh, and he has already defeated Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) twice in 2021 and 2022. From those fights, Usyk got a good feel for who would come out on top from a showdown between AJ and “The Gypsy King” Fury.

Usyk's choice

“Maybe it's Anthony Joshua,” Usyk told the Boxing King Media when asked who will win the fight between Joshua and Fury.

“I don't know, maybe it's points. I don't know,” Usyk said of how AJ will beat the Gypsy King.

Fury was stunned several times by Usyk, losing a 12-round unanimous decision 116-112 x 3. After the fight, instead of being gracious in defeat, Fury insisted he should have won and sounded like a sore loser. He showed that he is the type of fighter who will never admit when they have been defeated. I still don't know what Turki Alalshih sees in him.

Out of shape

Fury looked fat around the middle with his trunks drawn high above his navel and the referee decided not to insist that he pull his trunks lower. Did the referee not notice how tall Fury's trunks were for this fight?

There was almost no area for Usyk to land his punches on Fury's midsection given how high his trunks were. If this fight had been staged in the US, the referee would have insisted Fury wear his underpants lower.

Fury's weight was way too high at 281 and I couldn't believe that he supposedly lived like a monk during his three month training camp without talking to his family because he was supposed to be training so hard.

What does Fury eat during camp? How does he manage to get through camp and look so fat? I couldn't figure it out and it doesn't seem like Fury is committed enough at this point to work hard to get in decent shape for his fights.

Spinning a loss

“There's only one fight for Tyson Fury and that's Anthony Joshua,” Eddie Hearn told DAZN Boxing last Saturday night. “This is the biggest fight in British boxing history and everyone will want to see it. This wasn't Tyson Fury looking finished.

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

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

Who is Hearn trying to fool here? Fury looked absolutely awful last weekend. If Hearn is serious about Fury still fighting at his “peak” power, it could mean he never rated him in the first place because he never looked great during his career.

Even during Fury's best win against a washed-up 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, he was mostly throwing punches in the air, leaning against the ropes, prompting the fiery Vlad to throw.