{"id":32888,"date":"2024-05-19T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/daftest-decision-in-boxing-history-tyson-fury-cries-out-after-losing-heavyweight-to-usyk\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T15:00:17","slug":"daftest-decision-in-boxing-history-tyson-fury-cries-out-after-losing-heavyweight-to-usyk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/daftest-decision-in-boxing-history-tyson-fury-cries-out-after-losing-heavyweight-to-usyk\/","title":{"rendered":"Daftest decision in boxing history \u2013 Tyson Fury cries out after losing heavyweight to Usyk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Britain heavy weight boxer, Tyson Fury, has reacted to his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Fury described his heavyweight title loss as one of the daftest decision in boxing history.<\/p>\n<p>He said at the ring side: \u201cI believe he won a few of the rounds, but I won the majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was one of the daftest decisions in boxing. I\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Usyk defeated Fury following a split-decision in a dramatic match.<\/p>\n<p>Fury began well but was given a standing 10 count and saved by the bell after an Usyk onslaught in the ninth round.<\/p>\n<p>The scorecards gave 115-112 and 114-113 decisions in favour of the Ukrainian, with a third judge scoring it 114-113 to Fury.<\/p>\n<p>Fury lost for the first time in a 16-year professional career.<\/p>\n<p>He will get an immediate opportunity for revenge with a rematch planned for later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Daftest decision in boxing history \u2013 Tyson Fury cries out after losing heavyweight to Usyk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain heavy weight boxer, Tyson Fury, has reacted to his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk in Saudi Arabia. Fury described his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,160,11993,15478],"tags":[11994,180,201,11990,15264],"class_list":["post-32888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport","category-tyson-fury","category-usyk","tag-fury","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-tyson","tag-usyk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}