Usyk Picks Joshua To Defeat Fury In 2025

Oleksandr Usyk is picking Anthony Joshua to defeat Tyson Fury when the two meet in 2025 for their two fights. It’s not a total shock that Usyk (23-0, 12 KOs) is picking AJ to defeat Fury because he has a huge advantage in power, speed, and athletic ability over Tyson.

The unified heavyweight champion Usyk beat Fury (34-2-1, 24 KOs) for the second time last Saturday night in Riyadh, and he already twice defeated Joshua (28-4, 25 KOs) in 2021 and 2022. From those fights, Usyk got a good gauge for who will come out on top from a clash between AJ and ‘The Gypsy King’ Fury.

Usyk’s Pick

“Maybe it is Anthony Joshua,” said Usyk to Boxing King Media when asked who will win a fight between Joshua and Fury.

“I don’t know, maybe it is points. I don’t know,” said Usyk on how AJ will Defeat the Gypsy King.

Fury was stunned several times by Usyk, losing a 12 round unanimous decision by the scores 116-112 x 3. After the fight, instead of Fury being gracious in defeat, he insisted that he should have won and sounded like a sore loser. He showed that he’s one of those types of fighters that will never admit when he’s beaten. I still don’t know what Turki Alalshikh sees in him.

Out Of Shape

Fury looked fat around the middle, with his trunks pulled high past his navel and the referee choosing not to insist that he pull his trunks lower. Did the referee not notice how high Fury’s trunks were for that fight?

There was almost no area for Usyk to target his punches to Fury’s midsection, given how high his trunks were. If this fight had been staged in the U.S., a referee would have insisted that Fury wear his trunks lower.

Fury’s weight was too high at 281, and I couldn’t believe that he’d supposedly lived like a monk during his three-month training camp, not speaking to his family because he supposedly training so hard.

What was Fury eating during camp? How does he get through a camp and look that fat? I couldn’t understand, and it doesn’t look like Fury is dedicated enough at this point to work hard to get in decent shape for his fights.

Spinning A Loss

“There’s only one fight for Tyson Fury and that is Anthony Joshua,” said Eddie Hearn to DAZN Boxing last Saturday night.  “It’s the biggest fight in the history of British boxing, and everyone will want to see it. That wasn’t a Tyson Fury who looked finished.

“It wasn’t a flat performance, it wasn’t a poor performance. He didn’t look gun-shy or like his punch resistance was in question,” said Hearn, trying hard to paint a positive picture of Fury’s loss to Usyk.

“Tyson Fury is still at the peak of his powers. AJ against Fury is the one. One at Wembley and then back out here for Riyadh Season” said Hearn about wanting to do two fights between Joshua and Fury in 2025.

Who is Hearn trying to kid here? Fury looked absolutely horrible last weekend. If Hearn is serious about Fury beating still at his “peak’ powers, that could mean that he never rated him in the first place because he never really looked great during his career.

Even during Fury’s best win against a washed-up 39-year-old Wladimir Klitschko, he mostly threw jabs at the air, leaning against the ropes, inviting the gunshy Wlad to throw.