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[eXile3]

I don't know what Fury could do better in a rematch besides waste less energy showboating. Would probably have to use his size and weight advantage for more aggressive attacks early on and risk KO. Usyk despite being a few years older is in significantly better shape and will almost inevitably win over 12 rounds it seems, as impressive as Fury's recovery from spaghetti legs was this time.

He seemed to do better when he was moving forward. Had success with upper cuts to the body but Usyk is so good he eventually adjusted.

Usyk is just defensively elite and so good with closing space.

 

[famicommander]

Rather than face the winner of Madrimov v Crawford as he was supposed to, Sebastian Fundora has dropped the WBO super welterweight title and will instead defend his remaining WBC title against Errol Spence Jr. in October.

The Madrimov v Crawford fight, which was originally going to be for Madrimov's WBA and the vacant WBO interim titles, will now be a full unified WBA/WBO world title fight.

On the undercard Tim Tszyu will face Vergil Ortiz Jr. for the WBA interim title and TBRB/Ring/lineal champion Jermell Charlo remains WBA Champion-In-Recess, which entitles him to a WBA title shot if he can make the 154 weight again. So it seems like the Crawford v Madrimov winner could be tied up fighting both Tszyu/Ortiz and Charlo for the foreseeable future.

Meanwhile, Serhii Bohachuk continues to get screwed. He was originally going to face Fundora for the WBC title, until Thurman got hurt and they made Fundora vs Tszyu for the WBC/WBO titles. Then Bohachuk ended up fighting Mendoza, who knocked Fundora out in Fundora's previous fight, for an interim belt. Instead of fighting Fundora for a full world title he had to fight the guy who KO'd Fundora for an interim title, and now Spence has jumped his spot in line for a shot at that same title again.

 

[famicommander]

Damn, the Saudi backing of Crawford is getting stuff done.

The WBC has stripped Crawford of its 147 title, granting him champion-in-recess status (essentially, he can challenge for the title whenever he wants if he ever goes back to 147). But the more important thing is that they have also sanctioned Crawford vs Madrimov as a WBC 154 final eliminator.

This means that the Madrimov v Crawford winner will be the WBA/WBO unified champion AND the mandatory challenger to the WBC title.

The Fundora v Spence winner will have to fight the Madrimov v Crawford winner next or vacate the WBC title. If the title is vacated then Crawford/Madrimov would face WBC interim champion Serhii Bohachuk for the unified WBA/WBC/WBO titles.

This is all assuming that he beats Madrimov and that he doesn't fight Canelo next, of course.