Discussion continues on disgrace of world’s boxing champions

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Both Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk have shameful rumours to deal with, and professional boxers, fans, and the media do not intend to make things easier for the world champions.

The first to be disgraced was Oleksandr Usyk following Daniel Dubois’ body shot that dropped him on the canvas lately. Fury’s take was that Usyk cheated the Brit out of his victory. Later, news spread like wildfire that Martin Bakole claimed to have dropped Usyk during a private sparring session, which he claimed was witnessed by several people.

‘First or second round I think and I stopped him,’ claimed Bakole. ‘He took about one, two minutes and they start again, but from that day his coach told me not to spar, they just used dome other guys, for him to recover.

‘I wasn’t surprised, I’m too strong for Usyk, I know how to box a southpaw.

‘It was a body shot. I stepped back and body shot.’

Tyson Fury reacted to the new news by saying that anything was possible in heavyweight boxing. If only Tyson Fury knew his own disgrace was coming in a way fewer will forgive him for than pardoned his fellow heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk.

Before Tyson Fury’s bout with Francis Ngannou, most people were expecting the champion to beat the former UFC underling whose boxing debut it was going to be. Even Mike Tyson, Francis Ngannou’s trainer, said some nice things about the champion.

If someone had told Fury he would fall in the third round from the new guy’s blow, he might have laughed it off, but that was what happened.

After the shocking performance Ngannou put up that rewarded his with a still-debated defeat, the now-respected professional pugilist said, ‘If he was being honest, (Fury) would say I won that fight

‘I won that fight. There’s no question about it. Even before getting here, I knew if this fight gets to a decision, I’m not winning – not because I didn’t do good, (but) because I’m the new guy in the house.

‘I come here and I just want to kick into people’s business. There’s a structure of business out there and you need to do a lot to destroy it. … I wasn’t just expecting to win like that in a decision.

‘But it is what it is. I do my job. I know that I did everything I could’ve done. I did my best. Maybe next time I should just do better to convince people.’

‘This is really my first time to fight and to do a 10-round boxing match of straight boxing,” Ngannou said. “I tell myself that I didn’t do bad against the No. 1 heavyweight in the world.

‘I’m just going to go back and focus on that and have at least that experience to work on it – that feeling to work with it and get prepared for the next time, because I think this gets me even more excited and hungry to prove I was wounded, but I realized I can bite.’

According to some, Tyson Fury has been made to look beatable by Francis Ngannou. Though it might be hard for Oleksandr Usyk to drop the level of blows Ngannou was able to conjure, he might borrow a leaf from the debutant’s approach, while watching out for Fury’s body shots in their match which has been scheduled for early next year.