Fury wins controversial decision
September 12th, 2009
By Steven Wain: Tyson Fury (8-0-7 KO’s) beat John McDermott (25-6-16 KO’s) today by a 10 round decision (98-92) for McDermott’s English heavyweight title. However, the fight was not one way traffic as the score card seems to show. Quite frankly, I had it the other way round to McDermott.
In the final round, McDermott once again came on strong while Fury looked like he had been running the London Marathon for the last 3 hours.
At the end of the fight nearly every boxing fan, even me, was expecting the referee Terry O’Connor, to raise the hand of John McDermott, but to everyone’s surprise he took hold of Fury’s hand, and gave him the victory and in turn handing him the English Heavyweight Championship
Ignoring the result and what happened, I asked myself what did I learn from Fury’s tonight. The biggest thing was that he defiantly has a chin. He took some heavy shots from Big McDermott but he was never really “hurt.” One more thing that I learned about Fury as a boxer is that he has guts and determination.
Whatever you though of the decision, the record will still say the same and that is that Tyson fury is still undefeated and has now captured the English Heavyweight Championship.
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maybe o’conner is getting his drive retarmaced in the deal?
do you hear the nations thoughts o’conner?you didnt fool anyone did you?
i watched 2 he got is arse kicked all night long and was puffing real bad he didnt hurt mcdermut once but mc dermot landed plenty of flush shots these decisons in boxing need sorting now the refs dont after give an answer to why they judged it like this well there needs to be some kind off comitee they have 2 explain to then they mite think twice rematch i dont think tyson will have the bottle he got lucky and he knows it so he will stay well clear of mcdermott know
as ive sed time and time again the sport stinks,nothing will happen 2 the ref,and it will happen again again and again.ref terry o’conner shud retire.AS ASHISHWARRIOR SED MCDERMOTT SHUD SUE 4 LOSS OF EARNINGS.by the way i admitt thort fury wud win by the 6th
Wasn’t there a rumour that a load of travellers had bet £50,000 on tyson fury winning. Sounds iffy to me.
MW you must be some kind of a joke. did you watch the fight? and what hope are you talking about? he called him names and said knocking him out.you must have been behind the ref all tro the fight blocking you from the real fight. and I dont know what you saw from the refs behind. The ref should be ban for life cos hes not helping you . on your so called great white hope.
Before the fight I thought Tyson was going to have him out of there in 6 rounds but I scored the fight 97-93 for McDermott. Tyson is only young and he was put in with McDermott to soon, he maybe tall but he doesnt have much power and he allowed McDermott to get inclose and boss the fight.
Fury is starting to annoy me with his pikey luck, that wont last forever though. Somebody who can really hit is going to find that jaw real soon.
in fairnuss to fury he took great shots and i countid 3 times that mcdurmut durned his bak on fury when he was hurt and also the headbut frm mcdurmut.
The ref obviously felt pressure to give it to the ‘new boy’ as this is where the ‘smart money’ is.Fury is being billed as the great white hope,while McDermott is not (in boxing terms) going anywhere.(he still should have won,tho’!)
wats the broblem tyson wone, hes now the new champ lets get behind him and give him some credit the new great white hope and only 21
watched the fight live whole arena had the mac attack the winner.pikey intimadatation.all it was.i will never support him again…rematatch masc.spark him
I watched the fight last night and first off before we go into the decision, what a proformence big john gave.
Now onto the decision what a load of @@@@ becouse i aswell as most had mcdermott up by atleast 3 rounds, it was an utter joke.
I was so please that fury got a beating and wasnt the pacemaker as he has been in all previous fights, i thought i saw some good boxing by fury and if only he could keep his mouth shut and fight id like him, then post fight interview he was again cleaver and very arrogant! did u not just get your @@@@ handed to you tyson? i belive so!
I havnt seen the fight but i know about the ref. He has made some terrible decisions before.
Like a few months ago he gave a decision against jon thaxton. When the fight should have clearly been a win for thaxton or at least a draw.
I cant wait to see this fight, i knew fury was full of hype. Nobody had even hit him (unless you counth im punching himself in the face) before last night. He knows deep down he should have lost.
The sky sports pundits all said he should have lost, and i trust johnny nelson.