Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk 2: Live Winners and Losers, Results

There's nothing like a Tyson Fury fight build.

The mercurial British heavyweight was already a two-time consensus heavyweight champion and vied for a third reign Saturday in Saudi Arabia, where he faced the only man who'd beaten him in a pro ring—Oleksandr Usyk—in a 12-round rematch at Kingdom Arena in Riyadh.

The combatants weighed in Friday and the ex-champ made news with a 19-pound spike on the scale from the 262 pounds he weighed in May to 281 pounds on Friday. Fury's facial hair was also a point of contention as the opening bell neared, with members of Usyk's team indicating displeasure with the scraggly beard Fury wore at the weigh-in.

It provided some side drama as the ring walks approached. But the main card began at 11 a.m. ET and wrapped up after 6 p.m. ET, and the B/R combat team delivered a definitive, real-time list of the show's winners and losers.

Take a look at what we came up with and drop a thought of your own in the app comments.

At some point, it'll no longer be a surprise.

When Oleksandr Usyk moved to heavyweight and toppled a stronger, more powerful Anthony Joshua a while back, it was a surprise. When he did it again, it was still unexpected.

And nearly no one anticipated his springtime encore would be going to the uppermost echelon of the division and taking the undefeated record from Tyson Fury.

But he did all those things. And now that he's beaten Fury again, by unanimous decision in Saturday night's main event in Saudi Arabia, it's time to stop thinking it's a surprise and instead start plotting Usyk on a chart of the division's all-time best.

Or at least its recent best. Where he'd certainly be near the top.

Though older and smaller than his "Gypsy King" rival, Usyk was busier and sharper in nearly every round, put his stamp on the middle of the fight with aggression and precision punching, then blunted a rally from the ex-champ down the stretch.

"If you know what you're watching, the boxing, every time Fury was doing something Usyk would take it away," analyst Sergio Mora said. "This was a Usyk show.

"Usyk the Great did it again."

The first win over Fury gave him four recognized title belts, and, though the IBF nonsensically stripped him and elevated ex-Usyk victim Daniel Dubois, the second victory cements his superiority both as a heavyweight and a pound-for-pound elite.

Dubois interrupted Usyk's post-fight chat with a request for a rematch of Usyk's eighth-round KO in their first fight.

"Sure," Usyk said. "No problem."

Fury's promoter, Frank Warren, called the scorecards—which had Usyk up 8-4 across the board—"simply nuts." Nevertheless, B/R's W/L card had Usyk ahead, 7-5.

Usyk landed 179 of 423 punches for a 42 percent rate, while Fury connected on 144 of 509, for 28 percent.

"I win. It's good," Usyk said. "I'm not a judge. I'm a sportsman. I win. Thank you."

OK, maybe this Mike Tyson thing has some legitimacy, after all.

Though they're chronically prone to overhyping their own guys, the enthusiasm the British boxing crowd has for Moses Itauma seemed almost too muted in the aftermath of Saturday's co-main event blowout of once-beaten veteran Demsey McKean.

He's fundamentally sound. He punches hard. And, somehow, he's only 19.

Itauma landed an overhand left that sent his 6'6" opponent tumbling to the floor just 80 seconds into the fight, then repeated the feat a half-minute later and drew an immediate intervention from the Australian's corner team, ending the fight at 1:57 of Round 1.

The win was the 11th of his career and fourth in 2024, coming after a two-round stoppage of ex-title challenger Mariusz Wach. Itauma's four fights this year have lasted six rounds.

Tyson was 20 years, and 4 months old when he won a heavyweight belt from Trevor Berbick in 1986, establishing himself as the youngest champion in divisional history. Itauma would have to get a belt by April to break Tyson's record.

But regardless of when the shot comes, it'll generate huge attention as the UK continues a 21st-century heavyweight run that began with Lennox Lewis, including Fury and Anthony Joshua in recent years, and may have legs into the next decade as well.

When you're really good, they call you Cracker Jack.

Or, they compare you to Kelly Pavlik.

Serhii Bohachuk earned the latter by delivering the sort of prolonged beating that leaves a guy sore for weeks, and it only took six rounds for the corner team of Ishmael Davis to surrender their late substitute and give the Ukrainian a well-deserved TKO win.

Pavlik, for those unaware, was a middleweight champion known for a no-nonsense approach in which he came forward and simply looked to lay hands on his opponents.

It was no different for Bohachuk, who earned a 154-pound title shot with a victory that analyst Adam Smith labeled "utterly ruthless," a suggestion that was echoed by broadcast teammate Sergio Mora.

Bohachuk scored the fight's lone knockdown in the second round, then continued to pummel Davis with shots to the head, body, and arms until the British fighter walked back to his corner after Round 6 and shook his head, indicating he'd had enough.

"He's scary. Scary, Kelly Pavlik-type scary," Mora said. "No speed. No footwork. Just pressure. He's the easiest man to train for. You know everything he's going to do, tactically and technically. But you can't do anything about it. He just wants to hurt you."

It took a handful of fights, but the undercard finally delivered a stinker from the judges when unbeaten prospect Johnny Fisher was gifted a split 10-round decision against David Allen in a brawl between British heavyweights.

Allen, who'd arrived with a 12-0 mark since debuting in 2021, was given six of 10 rounds on two scorecards to offset the 6-4 nod in the other direction to Allen, who'd toiled on the UK domestic scene since 2012 but was beaten by the likes of Luis Ortiz, Dillian Whyte and David Price.

The B/R card had it 6-4 for Allen, too, after he endured four rounds of stiff punches from Fisher but was never significantly damaged and was clearly compromising the younger man's gas tank.

The competitive tide turned in the fifth, when Allen replied to a volley of body shots with a hook to the head to begin a flurry that floored Fisher for the first time in his brief career. Fisher rose and never hit the deck again in the fight's second half, but Allen landed the harder, sharper punches and seemed to have his man in trouble multiple times.

Now 32 years old, he unjustly fell to 23-7-2 and had a two-fight win streak snapped.

A promised finish was not delivered but the 10-rounder between British featherweight rivals Lee McGregor and Isaac Lowe – for the WBC's vacant "international" belt – was still an entertaining scrap from start to finish.

The combatants were the most entertaining of the undercard fighters at Friday's weigh-in, with Lowe, a good friend of main-eventer Fury, telling his foe that he was "in with a Gypsy boy now so he's getting knocked spark out."

The knockout never came but it wasn't for lack of effort by Lowe, a pro since 2012 whose only losses – to Luis Alberto Lopez in 2021 and Nick Ball in 2022 – were to fighters on the world-championship level.

He landed several hard shots, including several to the body of McGregor in a hectic Round 9, but wasn't able to contend with the style and movement of the skilled 27-year-old – nicknamed "Lightning" – who lost in a title bid at 122 pounds before moving up to become a full-timer at 126.

Lowe had two points remaining for frequently losing his mouthpiece and lost on all three scorecards, once by a 96-92 tally and twice by 97-91.

"Very good fight for (McGregor) on a big stage," analyst Sergio Mora said. "I expect a big fight for him next year."

Daniel Lapin and Peter McGrail don't have too much in common.

Lapin is a smooth Ukrainian light heavyweight who stands 6'6" while McGrail is a scrappy British featherweight who's less than 6 feet tall even on tiptoes.

But the southpaws combined to switch the Saudi card into a more entertaining gear Saturday after the first two fights had struggled to get it moving.

Lapin used his lanky frame to establish distance and keep opponent Dylan Colin on the end of his shots on the way to a unanimous decision in a battle of unbeatens – winning all 10 rounds on one card and taking nine of 10 on two others.

It was a stylistic contrast to the 10-round rumble between McGrail and late opponent Rhys Edwards that ended in a narrow unanimous nod to McGrail despite a cut he'd suffered over the right eye in the third round.

McGrail landed 115 of 462 punches compared to 106 of 355 for Edwards, who'd been training for a January bout but subbed in when McGrail's original foe pulled out.

Andrii Novytskyi has everything you could want in a heavyweight.

He's got a menacing "Rampage" nickname, a lanky frame at 237 pounds, and has made the sorts of promotional connections that get a guy on the biggest heavyweight card of the year.

So you'd think his path to an ultimately big role in the big-boy division would be set.

Except, based on Saturday at least, he's not that much of a fighter.

Oh sure, he escaped with his steppingstone WBC international heavyweight title belt after a closer-than-it-was-scored decision over plodding Mexican opponent Edgar Ramirez, but the comprehensive mediocrity didn't inspire much future furor.

Nevertheless, Novytskyi made a call for big things in the upcoming new year and even suggested a date with former champ Deontay Wilder, who's 1-4 with three KO losses in his last five fights after a 42-0-1 start, but still possesses world-class power.

Our advice to Novytskyi? You might want to call Jake Paul instead.

You can tell a lot about a guy by the company he keeps. Sometimes.

Which means Mohammed Alakel is going places. Maybe.

The 20-year-old lightweight made his second pro appearance in some impressive surroundings on Saturday, strafing outgunned opponent Joshua Ocampo with shots for every moment of six rounds on the way to a unanimous shutout on the scorecards.

It was Alakel's second fight in just more than two months and the second straight time he's appeared on a high-profile card in Saudi Arabia. He won all four rounds while beating Jesus Gonzalez on the Beterbiev-Bivol show in October.

He's quick and punches with some snap, though he's not been able to stop either opponent, neither of whom was exactly of contender stuff.

Gonzalez arrived at 3-2 and was coming off a loss, while Ocampo was a dubious 8-33-5 and hadn't won a fight in nearly three years – yielding a winless stretch in which he'd gone 0-31-2. He was 8-2-3 after beating Oscar Prado on Feb. 25, 2022.

Main Card

Oleksandr Usyk def. Tyson Fury by unanimous decision (116-112, 116-112, 116-112)

Moses Itauma def. Demsey McKean by TKO, 1:57, Round 1

Serhii Bohachuk def. Ishmael Davis by TKO, 3:00, Round 6

Johnny Fisher def. David Allen by split decision (95-94, 93-96, 95-94)

Lee McGregor def. Isaac Lowe by unanimous decision (96-92, 97-91, 97-91)

Peter McGrail def. Rhys Edwards by unanimous decision (96-94, 96-94, 96-95)

Daniel Lapin def. Dylan Colin by unanimous decision (100-90, 99-91, 99-91)

Andrii Novytskyi def. Edgar Ramirez by unanimous decision (98-92, 100-90, 100-90)

Mohammed Alakel def. Joshua Ocampo by unanimous decision (60-53, 60-53, 60-53)