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Jeff Mayweather said he thinks Tyson Fury did enough to win a decision against Alexander Usyk last Saturday night in their rematch in Riyadh. He believes Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) did more than unified heavyweight champion Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) in the fight to earn a 12-round decision.
Jeff doesn't think the fight was exciting, describing it as “mediocre”. Usyk won round 12 by unanimous decision with scores of 116-112, 116-112 and 116-112. Fury blew away his chances of victory by doing nothing in the championship rounds when the fight was still up for grabs.
Weight and performance
The weight Fury gained slowed him down, making it difficult for him to fight as hard as he needed to in order to win. He came into the first match looking limp at 262 lbs, but made up for it by bulking up to 281 lbs for the rematch.
Fury was so stocky that he had to pull his trunks up to minimize his stomach and leave a smaller target area for Usyk's punches.
“The fight was extremely close. It could go either way, but I'm going to lean a little bit toward Tyson,” Jeff Mayweather said in his YouTube channel, believing that Tyson Fury did enough to deserve a victory over unified heavyweight champion Alexander Usyk last Saturday night.
“Every next round he (Usyk) would do well, but not as well as Tyson. Usyk takes the heavyweight division. All of them are defeated by Usyk. So probably not,” Jeff said when asked if Fury and Anthony Joshua have a chance to become world champions again.
“I don't think anyone wants to see a third fight (between Fury and Usyk). The first fight for me was very good. The second fight was mediocre. Neither of them did too much. Basically I think they both fought safe and that's probably why Tyson didn't get the fight. He was fighting too safe.
If Turki Alalashikh wants to create a trilogy between Fury and Usyk, he can do it. Fans won't want to see it. With Fury on two defeats, the time is not right for Turki to face Anthony Joshua. Fury needs a win or two against a solid opponent to redeem himself and increase his stock.
Turki should tell Fury that if he wants to get a retirement day against Joshua, he needs to earn it by fighting Daniel Dubois and Martin Bakole. Let him go through the fire first to get that big mega-payday.
Fury's cautious approach
“He didn't take enough risks. I don't think so. Everybody's been beaten by a heavyweight,” Mayweather said when asked if Joshua, Fury and Daniel Dubois could hang with Lennox Lewis, George Foreman and Mike Tyson.”
Fury looked scared of getting hurt in the rematch with Usyk last Saturday and wasn't going to take any chances. He didn't want to be knocked out. So, he played it safe, went all out and got his $75 million salary without putting his skin at risk.
It won't end well with Fury, Joshua or Dubois going up against a top class Lewis, Foreman or Mike Tyson. If there was a way to teleport them back to when these guys were young, it would be interesting to see, but none of them would do well against this kind of fighter. Fury will be the most vulnerable of the three because he can't punch and his movement or damage won't work.
“I don't think so,” Mayweather said of whether Fury could be considered an all-time great. “Some people might think so. I really like Tyson Fury and I think he's extremely talented for someone his size. But if you get beaten twice by a heavyweight, you can't say much about it. I think he (Fury) is a Hall of Famer.”
Fury is definitely NOT a Hall of Famer, and certainly not an all-time great. He didn't beat anyone except the old 40-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, who was underpowered, and Deontay Wilder. We saw how good he is with his recent losses to Joseph Parker and Gilles Zhang. These defeats took the shine off Fury's victories over Deontay while fighting him.
