“I was quite confident, I fought I won that fight again,” Fury told reporters after losing the second fight of his career. “I thought I’d won both fights but then again, I’ve gone home with two losses on my record now so there’s not much I can do about it … I will always believe until the day I die, I’ve won that fight.”
Fury admitted that this can happen in the world of boxing and that he was not “going to cry over spilled milk,” but the former heavyweight champion maintained he felt hard done by. Fury, who entered the ring to Mariah Carey’s smash Christmas hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” and dressed like Santa Claus, said the win must have been an early Christmas present for Usyk. “I felt a little bit of Christmas spirit in there, and I think he got a little Christmas gift from them judges. Christmas gift early.”
When asked if Usyk was the best boxer he’d faced, Fury was also defiant in his response. “Not really, to be fair. In that fight there, he never hurt me once,” Fury said. Frank Warren, Fury’s promoter, was equally surprised by the decision. “I’m dumbfounded at how that scoring can be, it’s dreadful,” Warren told reporters.
Usyk responded by calling Warren a “crazy man,” after saying he must also be blind. He added that he “wanted to rest” now, turn off his phone, “not think about boxing … and just play with my children.”
