vintage display,<\/a> but Haye believed it was a good return considering the ring rust Fury could have been dealing with.<\/p>\n“Fury did exactly what he needed to do,” Haye told Netflix.<\/p>\n
“That was the optimal performance for him. If he could pick the type of performance to put forward, it would be exactly that.<\/p>\n
“He took all his tools out of the box and polished them up.”<\/p>\n
Retired multiple weight world champion Andre Ward agreed with Haye’s assessment, downplaying suggestions was a soft reintroduction for Fury.<\/p>\n
“Some will say Makhmudov is limited, but he’s good enough,” Ward said. <\/p>\n
“You can’t take away from what you’ve seen from Tyson Fury offensively and defensively tonight.”<\/p>\n
Four-time world champion Carl Froch said Fury “boxed well” and taking zero damage will be a positive for the 37-year-old.<\/p>\n
“He’s been out the ring for [nearly] 16 months and he put in a 12-round performance at a good pace,” Froch said.<\/p>\n
“The first couple of rounds were close, but then he took over against a dangerous puncher. <\/p>\n
“He got hit with a couple of little shots, but you can see by his face he’s not marked up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former world heavyweight champion David Haye described Tyson Fury’s win over Arslanbek Makhmudov in his comeback fight as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-394119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}