Tyson Fury Says Age Caught as much as Anthony Joshua on Saturday evening to IBF heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois in London. Fury feels that the 35-year-old Joshua (28-4, 23 KOs) went up in opposition to a a lot youthful fighter, 27-year-old Dubois (22-2, 21 KOs), who can punch.
Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, had executed a wonderful job hiding AJ’s age by matching him in opposition to beatable opposition in his final 4 fights after he’d been overwhelmed twice in a row by Oleksandr Usyk. Hearn lastly matched Joshua with a proficient fighter who may expose his age, and we noticed the end result tonight.
Initially, Fury disregarded Joshua’s loss, saying it may occur to anybody within the heavyweight division, which is true. Nonetheless, as he spoke extra, he admitted that Joshua’s age performed an element.
It’s not one thing that the 36-year-old Fury likes to speak about as a result of he’s having the identical issues. He misplaced his final struggle to Usyk on Could 18th and appeared like a shell of his former self in that contest.
There’s a great opportunity Fury will lose the rematch on December twenty first and face the identical retirement questions as Joshua.
There’s not a lot Joshua and his promoter Hearn can do about his getting older as a result of there isn’t a fountain of youth that he can drink from to make him younger once more. The one choices are to keep away from the harmful guys like Dubois and concentrate on combating weaker punchers who can’t replicate what we witnessed tonight.
“It’s heavyweight boxing. [Stuff] occurs. You get knocked spark out. It may have been me. Within the heavyweight division, it’s what occurs,” mentioned Tyson Fury to the media, reacting to Anthony Joshua’s loss to Daniel Dubois on Saturday evening.
Fury got here near being knocked out in his final struggle in opposition to Usyk and would have doubtless been had the referee not saved him within the ninth spherical by giving a standing eight depend.
“What went fallacious is what at all times occurs in heavyweight boxing. A great proper hand on the top of the chin, and that was it. I don’t know. It’s as much as the person and no matter he desires to do. If he has good ambitions to come back again once more, he could make his personal selections. He’s a giant boy.
“I believed it was a 50-50 struggle. Dubois is so much youthful. He’s 27-years-old. Joshua is 35, the identical age as me. Age doesn’t look forward to anyone. You get hit with these punches. You don’t see many heavyweights get hit, get knocked down, get again up, and proceed on,” mentioned Fury about Joshua.
AJ received again up from the primary three knockdowns, however that was extra of a case of them occurring late within the rounds. Within the remaining knockdown within the fifth, Joshua couldn’t get again up as a result of he was counted out, and his coach, Ben Davison, had entered the ring whereas the referee was nonetheless counting.
“I’ve received to struggle my man, the rabbit,” mentioned Fury about his rematch in opposition to Oleksandr Usyk on December twenty first. “I’m going to take all my belts again as soon as once more.”
It doesn’t appear real looking that Fury will win his rematch with Usyk. There’s a very good probability that Usyk will knockout Fury by following what he created from their final struggle by unloading on him with a barrage of punches. If Usyk follows the identical plan from the ninth spherical, he’ll knock out Fury.
I assure you. After I struggle Usyk in December and beat him, I’ll carry all of the belts again that I shouldn’t have by no means had misplaced. Then I’ll struggle Dubois and take that off him as properly. That’s my plan.”
Fury doesn’t have to fret an excessive amount of as a result of His Excellency Turki Alalshikh has already informed him he can nonetheless struggle Joshua, even when he loses his subsequent struggle in opposition to Usyk. That’s a load off. If Fury loses, he can provide you with a very good excuse to inform the followers to clarify away the loss, they usually’ll nonetheless need to see him struggle AJ subsequent.
