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The fight of the decade has come and gone just like that.
Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk met last night at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and whilst many had their money on Fury to claim the highly coveted undisputed title.
All the anticipation, build up and excitement ended with the Ukrainian southpaw claiming the undisputed heavyweight title by split decision against 'The Gypsy King'.
Resulting in Fury, 35 losing his WBC title and perfect record to Usyk on Saturday night.
Usyk completed a late comeback in the latter rounds of the fight to edge the fight and become the first undisputed heavyweight champion since Lennox Lewis in 1999.
Tyson Fury lost for the first time his career in a close-fought thriller on Saturday night
Former undisputed heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis criticised Fury's gameplan against Usyk following the historic night
The Ukrainian southpaw won the thrilling fight by split decision
Lewis, the former undisputed champion went onto criticise Fury's gameplan and mentality against Usyk after the match.
Speaking on DAZN lewis said 'Fury was boxing like he won the fight,
'No boxer can judge and say they won the fight.
'Every time a round was close they should look at it like a loss.”
Two of the judges on night scored the fight in favour of the Ukrainian, whilst the third scored the bout 114-113 towards Fury.
Fury appeared to come out of the gates quicker and the more hungrier, taunting and teasing the Ukrainian in the opening few rounds.
During the middle few rounds of the fight, Fury looked to be the more fresh and stronger opponent out of the two, managing to hurt Usyk in round six, however Usyk was to never be doubted.
In a momentous turn of the tide, Usyk became the more dominant fighter in the closing rounds.
All three officials scored rounds eight, nine and 10 in favour of Usyk.
Usyk had Fury on the ropes in the closing rounds of the fight
Speaking after the fight Fury questioned the officials, as he said he believed he was clearly ahead on the scorecards going into the final round.
Fury said he believed he was clearly ahead on the scorecards going into the final round.
'I was having fun in there. I was playing around. I was loving it. I thought I was bossing the fight,” he said of the showboating.
'If my corner would have said in the final round, go out and finish it, I would have - but we all thought we were up.
'In the first six rounds he maybe nicked one of them. It was close and I tried my best. I came up short.”
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