AI Proves Usyk Beat Fury – ‘Usyk Was Landing Max Impact Shots, 2-3-4 Punch Combinations’
The boxing stats showed Oleksandr Usyk had beaten Tyson Fury.
Usyk secured a split-decision win over Fury, making him the World’s Undisputed Heavyweight Champion. He followed in the footsteps of Lennox Lewis, the last man to have achieved that feat. He also joined Evander Holyfield in becoming undisputed at cruiserweight and then heavyweight. While Fury remained adamant that he had won the fight, the statistics prove otherwise.
He was almost stopped in round nine, only to get a standing eight count instead. Usyk also landed the cleaner shots, as shown in the statistics. According to Jabbr, an AI live-stats company, Usyk was far superior. The stats show Fury threw more punches than Usyk. But he landed far less of them. Fury was also behind on the high-impact/power punches, with Usyk pushing Fury on the back foot.
Fury vs. Usyk Stats
“Fury had most of his success with his jab to the head and with his hooks to the body, though he did also score a couple of nasty high and max impact uppercuts in there as well, see the Sankey diagram. Usyk had more variance in his game; he was landing high and max impact shots from many different types of punches from both singles and extended 2-3-4 punch combinations. The middle rounds looked fairly even on the punch stats as a whole, whereas the later rounds clearly favored Usyk,” Jabbr spokesperson
The CompuBox numbers also back up Usyk’s dominance. Usyk landed 170 punches compared to Fury’s 157. That was by far the most anyone had landed on Fury, beating the record of 127 set by Otto Wallin. Wallin was another southpaw who had given Fury much to think about. While Wallin lost a unanimous decision, the fight could have been stopped due to Fury’s extensive bleeding following a cut.
Fury did land more jabs to the body, with 62 compared to Usyk’s 48. But the conversion rate was better from Usyk at 32.7 percent compared to Fury’s 21.7. In the biggest department, there was 122 power punches against Fury’s 95. Since Usyk was the smaller man, with a seven-inch reach disadvantage, and giving up around 40 pounds, the win was all the more remarkable. In doing so, Usyk defied Fury’s pre-fight narrative that he was a middleweight and blown-up cruiserweight.
Fury Underestimated Usyk
“I could beat Usyk on a week’s training! Because he’s a middleweight, I’ll put my fists right through him. When Usyk was amateur boxing, sucking his mother’s nipples, I was the British heavyweight champion. He was boxing at 75 kilograms [165-pounds] as an amateur. 75kg!? This is why I call him a middleweight.
“I’ve never said it won’t be easy work. All this ‘pound-for-pound legend’ nonsense, I don’t rate him! I have no real interest in Usyk. Some man that nobody can really say his name? A pumped-up middleweight? It’s not my fault he’s gone and battered AJ, some bodybuilder! It’s not my fault that happened twice in a row,” Fury said
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