[Sports] Tyson Fury will be broken-hearted but he can win rematch against Oleksandr Usyk, George Groves says

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Tyson Fury will be "broken-hearted" after defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in their undisputed world title fight, but a "better version" of the British star can win the rematch, says Sky Sports expert George Groves...

It's very difficult to put into context exactly what Usyk has achieved because it is something incredible. It's the first heavyweight champion to hold all four heavyweight belts in this era, the last person to do it was Lennox Lewis, that was 25 years ago and that was just three belts.

Throughout the decades, you're going to have the No 1 in the division but for someone to go in there and essentially just clean up like he has done, has been incredible.

He took on Fury, the giant, someone who's been maybe the best heavyweight of his era so far, 6ft 9in-plus plus, and beat him the way he did.

I gave the result to Usyk. I had it a little wider than some of the judge's cards. In the first three or four rounds some had it to Fury, some had it to Usyk - depends what you're into or what you're after. From the end of that fourth round, definitely, in the fifth round, Fury then started to take over, he started to implement his style really well. He looked like he was firing on all cylinders. Fury had the timing of Usyk. The body shots were working really well. He had a variety of show-low-and-shoot-high-up-through-the-guard shots and he landed a few uppercuts and you're thinking at that point, wow, Fury's into his own, he's going to win this fight. But that didn't happen.

 

Showboating is part and parcel of Fury, but Usyk is vastly experienced, he doesn't really engage in any of that. He doesn't try and get a reaction, because that's what Fury wants you to do. He puts his hands behind his back. He wants you to jump in so that you make a mistake. He forces that mistake from you and he makes you pay. So I think it's unfair for people to say Fury's showboating cost him the fight. I don't think so.

Usyk was just a really good fighter. They both were on their A-game really so they both brought their best. There's a nose injury that comes for Fury, which looked like it could have been bothering him. If your nose is broken or busted it starts filling up with blood, which makes it a little bit harder to breathe. Usyk was applying that pressure from the get-go. He was trying to make Fury fight at an uncomfortable pace. So once he started landing, he started putting a little bit more on his shots, land them a little bit heavier in that second half of the fight, you know from rounds, eight, nine onwards, and then it's heavyweight boxing. It doesn't matter if the guy's five inches shorter and two-plus stone lighter, you're still going to have a significant force that is going to hurt it. It's going to buzz you to your feet and that's what Usyk did.

 

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