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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Fine

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Speaker 1: from newstalk edb.

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Speaker 2: Alexander Usik has defeated Tyson Fury by unanimous decision in

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Speaker 2: the Home of Boxing, Saudi Arabia to remain the undisputed

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Speaker 2: heavyweight boxing champion of the world. The judges all scored

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Speaker 2: the contest one sixteen, one twelve in favor of the

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Speaker 2: Ukrainian multi talented multi media journalist with the New Zealand Herald,

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Speaker 2: Christopher Reeve was live blogging the fight.

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Speaker 3: He joins, us now, do you agree with the judges?

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Speaker 4: I do to the fact that I also scored it

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Speaker 4: one sixteen one twelve to Usak, So that's always a

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Speaker 4: good confidence booster when you're score in a fight that

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Speaker 4: the judges had it as well. Who was favorite? Was

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Speaker 4: Usik favorite going in? Yeah, Usik was the favorite going in.

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Speaker 4: I think largely because of the fact he beat Fury

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Speaker 4: last time and had him in trouble at times. A

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Speaker 4: lot of people kind of saw that, you know, he's

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Speaker 4: a very very good fighter and could give Fury a

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Speaker 4: lot of troubles. So I think there were a lot

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Speaker 4: of backers for usk to win.

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Speaker 2: This on so it went, it went the distance. When

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Speaker 2: the twelve rounds, did it ever look as though Tyson

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Speaker 2: Fury was ahead in the fight, or conversely, that he

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Speaker 2: might knock Usik out.

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Speaker 4: I don't think Usik was ever in trouble of being

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Speaker 4: knocked out. Fury wasn't really stringing enough combinations together. He

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Speaker 4: was sort of looking for one shot at a time.

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Speaker 4: He did a lot of work with his jab early,

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Speaker 4: but then as Usik found his way into the fight,

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Speaker 4: Fury for a lot on the back foot, which is

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Speaker 4: not ideal for the guy who's coming bigger. He's got

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Speaker 4: the longer reach, you'd kind of expect him to try

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Speaker 4: and I guess muscle his way into the fight, but

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Speaker 4: Usk did well to keep him at bay. I had

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Speaker 4: Fury up quite early on, but kind of from the

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Speaker 4: fourth round, Usk started to take over, and then the

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Speaker 4: middle rounds started doing what they did last time, Usik

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Speaker 4: just finding the target kind of ot Well. Fury did

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Speaker 4: come back quite strong, but yeah, Usk just over overwhelmed

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Speaker 4: him in the end.

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Speaker 3: Did Usik ever look like knocking fu Re out?

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Speaker 4: Not quite as much as in the last fight. There

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Speaker 4: were some times where he was landing some really good

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Speaker 4: shots and looked like he might have had Fury a

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Speaker 4: little bit wobbled or a little bit stunned, but he

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Speaker 4: never really went chasing in those moments. He kind of

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Speaker 4: just took his time, picked his shots, and yeah, never

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Speaker 4: never really applied the pressure to I guess capitalize on

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Speaker 4: some of those moments, all right.

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Speaker 2: So put this into context for us Chris for those

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Speaker 2: who don't necessarily understand the alphabet soup that is that

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Speaker 2: is world boxing titles. So what does this mean for

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Speaker 2: each of these two?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 4: So that just means Usik is now the unif well

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Speaker 4: still the unified heavyweight champion, not undisputed, because he did

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Speaker 4: have to give up the IBF title to take this

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Speaker 4: fight against Tyson Fury. Tyson Fury now again no belts

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Speaker 4: to his name's. It'll be interesting to see what he

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Speaker 4: does next, whether he decides to call it a day

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Speaker 4: or whether he stays around.

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Speaker 3: What motivation would he have to stay around?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I can't imagine. Money's a big one.

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Speaker 4: Usik's got all but one of the titles, and that

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Speaker 4: title looks like it's going to be locked up for

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Speaker 4: a little while. Danny Dubois holds it at the moment,

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Speaker 4: he's meant to be fighting Joseph Parker early next year.

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Speaker 4: The winner of that fight probably fights Usak next So yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm really not sure where Tyson Fury goes from here.

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Speaker 3: So is that Joseph Parker fight not confirmed?

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Speaker 4: I'm not one hundred percent sure. The way Daniel Dubois

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Speaker 4: was talking about it in the ring, he's gone into

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Speaker 4: the ring and asked Alexander Usik for a fight. To

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Speaker 4: my understanding, it's confirmed. Okay, who knows in boxing? No,

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Speaker 4: that's really things to happen, that's right. I mean, we'd

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Speaker 4: like to see Joe back out there. What's his what

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Speaker 4: what do you predict for him? And you know in

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Speaker 4: the remainder of his boxing career, Well, Joseph's still quite young,

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Speaker 4: so it's quite exciting to see just how he's managed

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Speaker 4: to build his way back into this position he's at now.

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Speaker 4: He's bought, He's fought two really tough opponents in his

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Speaker 4: last ones. Daniel Dubois is another kind of heavy puncher

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Speaker 4: that is gonna test Joe's chin at times. And yeah,

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Speaker 4: I think Joe's still got plenty in the tank and

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Speaker 4: I'm really looking forward to that fight against Daniel Dubois.

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Speaker 4: It should be a really, really interesting one.

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Speaker 2: And just back to Usik. He's kind of a good fighter,

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Speaker 2: isn't He's got a good record, He's.

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Speaker 4: Up there with the best twenty three and oh is

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Speaker 4: a pro. Now he's an Olympic gold medalist, undisputed cruiserweight champion,

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Speaker 4: undisputed heavyweight champion. I mean, he's really one of the greats.

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Speaker 4: Thanks for stopping in and giving us the analysis, Chris.

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Speaker 4: I know you've been busy blogging away.

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Speaker 2: You've probably got analysis to right now, so thanks for

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Speaker 2: fitting us into your busy Sunday afternoon schedule.

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Speaker 4: Mate, anytime, Mate, anytime.

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Speaker 2: Christopher Reeve read him at injed Herald dot co dot

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Speaker 2: zed or a combat sports expert, also an expert on

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Speaker 2: a number of things, sailing, cricket, rugby, you name it.

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Speaker 2: But you can read his latest analysis of this fight

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Speaker 2: at injed Herald dot co dot nz. Just to recap

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Speaker 2: that for you, Alexander Usik has beaten Tyson Fury by

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Speaker 2: unanimous decision to remain the undisputed heavyweight boxing champion of

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Speaker 2: the world. The judges all scored the contest one sixteen won,

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Speaker 2: twelve in his favor. Both fighters traded blows throughout the fight,

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Speaker 2: but neither was able to drop the other.

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Speaker 3: It went the distance and Usik the winner by unanimous decision.

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