Usyk inflicts first defeat on Fury to unify world heavyweight titles

Time and again Tyson Fury has hauled himself off the canvas, but there was to be no reprieve here in Riyadh against the remorseless brilliance of Oleksandr Usyk. The reign of the Gypsy King is over, brought to a shuddering halt by a Ukrainian fighting not just for himself or his family, but for an entire nation. Usyk had made it clear that the Russian invasion of his country, now in its third year, would provide a motivation that no adversary could match. And so it turned out, with Fury denied o...