Until it happened, however, I never quite thought Usyk could beat Fury. If Usyk’s archive impressed me, Fury’s, that dextrous alien, was plain spooky. Of course there was that impossible recovery against Deontay Wilder in their first fight, in 2018, when Wilder landed two flush bombs and Fury lay unconscious at his feet. At some point in the time between his lights emphatically switching off and Jack Reiss counting “nine”, Fury rose as if by resurrection. Wilder landed a violent left hand square on Fury’s chin seconds later – in his autobiography, Fury wrote that it was harder than the punch that had knocked him down. Fury didn’t care and beat the shit out of Wilder for the rest of the round.
