Ingle Blames Fury's Loss to Usyk on Conditioning, But Ignores Important Factors

Trainer Dominic Ingle insists former WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury should not have been beaten by lightweight Oleksandr Usyk last May in their undisputed rematch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Ingle's Controversy: The Rage Wasn't Fair Enough

Ingle feels that Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) “didn't deserve” to maintain his dominance when he injured Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) briefly during the fight. He says that what Fury had to do was to keep the fight until the end of the fight to win, but he couldn't because of his condition.

Fury looked in a bad mood, but that was normal for him in recent years. He beat Deontay Wilder, Derek Chisora, and Dillian Whyte while looking fat. No one made excuses for Fury's preparation in those fights. It was after Usyk beat him that people came to his defense, blaming his loss on the fact that he didn't look good.

Ingle fails to mention that Fury was badly injured in the ninth round by Usyk and survived the referee's kick. The A-side batsman, Fury, was given a rare eight stoppage-time in just the time it took to prevent him from being run out.

“For me, Tyson wasn't good enough because in the rounds he got on top of Usyk, and there were two or three rounds during the fight where he had Usyk in trouble, it was just a matter of backing that up. until the end of the war. He couldn't do it. So that means he wasn't fit enough,” said coach Dominic Ingle on Boxing King Media's YouTube channel, discussing his opinion on why Tyson Fury lost to Oleksandr Usyk last May.

“Tyson Fury, he shouldn't have lost to Usyk because Tyson Fury is at his level, and I don't believe he was at a high level, he could have beaten Usyk. So, for me, he wasn't perfect enough. “When you're a simple star like Usyk, that's what you have to do,” said Ingle.

Fury's age and Usyk's ability

Fury is 36 years old approaching 40 years of age, and he would not have defeated the younger and smarter Usyk. The difference in age and status between the two was too great for Fury to overcome. There is no way Fury can be at his peak without a time machine that takes him back to 2015. He is old, and he will never be at his level.

“You have to try to gas the big man. Keep him under pressure and keep him active; they end up shooting if you don't do anything. That's what Usyk did. He pressured him and made Tyson do things he shouldn't have done. “Tyson should have behaved himself and calmed himself down, but he didn't do that,” said Ingle.

Usyk won because he was a better fighter than Fury and dominated the second half of the fight with his head shots. Furthermore, Fury was unable to use the tactics he relied on to win his fights under trainer Sugarhill Steward.

When Fury tried to hold him and lean on him, Usyk pushed him hard. Besides, Fury couldn't do anything, he was forced to try to beat Usyk with his skills rather than fight. He couldn't do it because he lacked talent.

Fury is a big man who has not excelled in size all these years and careful measurements made by his handlers. His best wins were against the older Wladimir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder. That's all. Fury's entire career stems from these two, and he would lose to Wladimir in his prime and should have been beaten twice by Wilder.

“He worked the way Usyk was doing instead of controlling the fight himself and making Usyk fight the way he wanted to fight. Tyson has enough skill to keep it under control. He didn't do it because he didn't have it in the tank; he had no last resort when he needed to step on the gas to defeat Usyk. He couldn't,” said Ingle.

“Truthfully, Tyson shouldn't have faced Usyk.” He shouldn't have come near her. With the height and arrival of Tyson, he didn't use it in a way to keep him for a long time,” said Ingle.

Damage from Wilder Fights

Fury has never had a great chin, even early in his career, but his three fights against Deontay Wilder may have reduced his resistance to boxing. He was knocked out cold in the 12th round in the first fight with Wilder in 2018 and was surprisingly counted out.

Fury discovered what many felt was a counting down in the third fight when Wilder knocked him out in the fourth round. Although Fury escaped two knockout losses, those fights took a toll on him, leaving him vulnerable to Usyk.

The left hand that hurt Usyk Fury in the ninth round was powerful enough to knock anyone down at this stage, he took it but he was in bad shape. The flurry of punches Usyk threw at the defenseless Fury after that should have led the referee to stop the fight.