Queensberry Promoter Frank Warren has broken his silence on Tyson Fury’s controversial post-fight comments regarding the judges’ decision, following his first professional loss that saw him unable to become the only undisputed heavyweight champion since 1999.
After going ahead on the cards and seeming in control after the first half of Saturday’s fight with Oleksandr Usyk, Fury was dominated during the majority of the second half of the battle, particularly after he was nearly knocked out in the ninth-round.
As a result, ‘The Gypsy King’ lost his undefeated record with a split-decision defeat to the Ukrainian, that most viewers agreed to be the correct decision.
However, during the immediate post-fight interview, Fury claimed that he thought he had done enough and declared that people, and mainly judges, will have sided with Usyk due to the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine.
“I believe that I won that fight. I believe that he won a few of the rounds but I won the majority of them. I believe it was a ‘what can you do?’, one of them decisions in boxing.
“We both put on a good fight, the best we could do and his country is at war, so people are siding with the country at war but make no mistake, I won that fight in my opinion and I will be back.”
In an interview with talkSPORT, Warren dismissed any concern over Fury’s words, blaming the incident on Fury’s well-documented bipolar and mental health struggles.
“Tyson is bipolar. If you go onto the NHS site and look at what the symptoms are of bipolar, some of the things is saying exactly what is on your mind or just coming out and saying things.
“If it is in your mind, you say it. That is one of the symptoms, unfortunately. For Tyson, if you look at him immediately after that fight, he kisses him [Usyk] at least three times, on the forehead, on the cheek.
“With Tyson, you can’t take what he says [literally], he has said in the past ‘I have retired’ and then a couple of months later ‘I am fighting again’, I’m not a doctor but that unfortunately is one of the things with people that suffer from a dreadful illness. It was called manic depression years ago; it is now called Bipolar.
“It’s all been well documented, the problems that he has had down the years. Tyson is a warrior, he gives everything, in that ninth round most fighters would have looked for a way out but not him. He carried on and at the end of the fight he won the last round.”
Fury now seems poised to rematch Usyk for three of the four belts that were on the line on Saturday, with the IBF set to strip Usyk of their world title and put the vacant belt up for grabs in the upcoming showdown between Filip Hrgovic and Daniel Dubois, which goes ahead on June 1st on the ‘Matchroom versus Queensberry’ card in Riyadh.
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