{"id":641654,"date":"2026-06-16T13:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641654\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T13:19:08","slug":"tyson-fury-delivers-his-honest-verdict-on-usyks-performance-against-rico-verhoeven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/641654\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury delivers his honest verdict on Usyk’s performance against Rico Verhoeven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oleksandr Usyk<\/a> was made to work for his win over Rico Verhoeven last month, coming extremely close to a shocking upset defeat<\/a>. Now, heavyweight rival Tyson Fury<\/a> has shared his assessment of Usyk\u2019s performance against the Dutch kickboxer.<\/p>\n

When Usyk signed to defend his heavyweight world title against Verhoeven, much of the boxing world was frustrated at the news, believing it would be an easy night\u2019s work for the Ukrainian.<\/p>\n

However, come fight night, those who dismissed Verhoeven\u2019s chances were left in shock, as the 1-0 recorded contender gave Usyk \u2018his toughest fight to date\u2019<\/a> until a controversial round 11 stoppage saved the champion\u2019s blushes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking to iFL TV<\/a>, Fury believes that Usyk \u2018probably lost every round\u2019 of the contest, whilst explaining why he believes that the Ukrainian\u2019s reasons for avoiding a clash with Moses Itauma<\/a> are false.<\/p>\n

\u201cBulls**t. Oleksandr is coming up to around 40 years old, he has just been pushed all of the way and probably lost every round against a kickboxer. So, I don\u2019t think that he wants to fight a 21-year-old kid who is mustard, for no gain.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is not going to gain big money because Moses doesn\u2019t have that following at the moment or the popularity. He is coming up, he is a rising star but he is not on top at the moment, so he [Usyk] isn\u2019t going to gain anything from it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all to lose and nothing to gain. If he beats Moses, he has beat a young kid coming up and if he loses to Moses, he has lost to a 21-year-old, so it doesn\u2019t make much sense [for Usyk to fight him].\u201d<\/p>\n

Usyk is expected to next take on Germany\u2019s Agit Kabayel<\/a>, where a similar performance could result in the end of his unbeaten run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oleksandr Usyk was made to work for his win over Rico Verhoeven last month, coming extremely close to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-641654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}