Lennox Lewis tells Tyson Fury to make 'biggest fight in history' with rival after second loss to Oleksandr Usyk
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Lennox Lewis insists the future is bright for Tyson Fury.
'The Gyspy King' suffered a second successive points defeat against Oleksandr Usyk at the Kingdom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Saturday night.
Talk immediately turned to Tyson Fury potentially retiring, but the 36-year-old made it clear he'll fight on as he strongly contested the second defeat of his 37-fight professional career.
Now boxing legend Lennox Lewis has told him to make a grudge match with former two-time heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, which he thinks will be the 'biggest fight in history'.
Lennox Lewis still excited about all-British clash
Lewis was in the front row to watch Fury fall short for the second time against Usyk.
The former undisputed heavyweight champion believes the right man won, but he understands why his compatriot may feel like he's been screwed over by the judges.
“It was a good fight," Lewis told TNT Sports.
"I would've liked to see Tyson a little bit more aggressive and go at Usyk a bit more. Because he won the first fight, so it's up to Tyson to go after him and make sure he wins the second fight.
"I didn't hear the scoring. In terms of the winner, yes [they got it right]."
"He will feel he maybe won the fight. I don't know because I felt like he could've done more work. You know, Usyk was hitting him to the body a couple of times, getting those free shots, and those are scoring points, so I guess that's what the judges were looking at."
The conversation ended with the interviewer asking, 'What's next for Fury?'
Lewis responded by calling on him to finally make a fight with Joshua. The two men have been dancing around a potential all-British heavyweight blockbuster for years. Even though there'll be no belts on the line, Lewis believes it's still the biggest fight of all time.
He added: "[Fury] goes to London for the biggest fight in history. Maybe Anthony Joshua."
Tyson Fury’s aims explicit rant at AI judge
Fury and his team contested the three ringside judges unanimously scoring the fight 116-112 to his opponent as they thought it was much closer than that.
Boxing has a big judging problem and Saudi boxing chief Turki Alalshikh has tried to combat it by creating an AI judge, which made its debut during Usyk vs Fury 2.
Its scorecard wasn't official and was simply an experiment to see how well it worked. Fans decided that it needed some fine-tuning after it angered Fury by having him lose by a massive margin of 118-112.
"By the review of that, absolutely s***," he told the media of the scorecard during his post-fight press conference.
"Here's one, f*** all the computers, keep the humans going. More jobs for humans, less jobs for computers."
Fury also aimed a jab at a certain brand of vehicle during his aggressive tirade, adding: "And f*** electric cars too while we're at it."
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