PROMOTER Frank Warren says Tyson Fury gave Oleksandr Usyk a “boxing lesson” before his fighter suffered a nosebleed during Saturday’s heavyweight clash.

When the “Gypsy King” got up from his stool before the ninth round – one of the most dramatic rounds in recent heavyweight history – blood came from his nose, which affected him from then on.

The ninth will be remembered because Fury was at sea during Usyk’s sustained attack, which threatened to end the fight until referee Mark Nelson saved Fury by awarding him a standing eight.

After eight rounds, referee Manuel Oliver Palimo scored four goals for Fury, while referees Craig Metcalfe and Mike Fitzgerlad gave the Briton five.

“It was a fantastic fight, it was a spectacle. Two undefeated fighters who gave it their all,” said Warren, who promotes Fury with Bob Arum.

“Tyson obviously had a problem with his nose and I think he just lost concentration for a moment. Up to this point it looked like he was giving it to him [Usyk] boxing lesson.

“At first I thought he had broken his nose. Because he kept touching it, right? And he had difficulty breathing.

“But Oleksandr, the fighter that he is, came back at it and had a great round. And that’s it. But I was thinking about Tyson [won]I generally agreed with the judge [Craig Metcalfe] give it to Tyson.”

With the score at 10-8, Usyk took his advantage and continued to put enormous pressure on Fury, but the former WBC champion performed impressively in the final round, which was awarded to him by all three judges. However, despite his efforts, Usyk was crowned the undisputed heavyweight champion.

“I know everyone would say, well, you would say that, but I felt him [Fury] won,” Warren said. “But we don’t complain about it because many people have seen it in different ways. But what a fantastic fight. It was a great night in the Kingdom. And that’s something people will remember.”

Soslan Asbarov has suffered a huge blow to his once promising career.

The undefeated cruiserweight was handed a six-year suspension for violating the policy of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA). Test samples taken from October 28^vol The fight with Alexei Papin ended with a positive result for the presence of an unspecified banned substance.

Asbarov was previously credited with a ten-round unanimous decision victory over his compatriot in Moscow. Russian Boxing Federation manager Dmitry Antonov confirmed to The Ring that the verdict was changed to no-contest on April 15 after verification of the test result.

Antonov was not allowed to confirm the substance in question due to confidentiality clauses in RUSADA’s testing policy. RUSADA officials only confirmed to The Ring that the result was first discovered on December 22 last year and later verified.

“RUSADA has overturned the decision by which the athlete Soslan Asbarov was excluded from competition for six years,” a RUSADA spokesman confirmed to The Ring. “Decision [was made] on April 15, 2024, with credit for the period of fleeting suspension completed [backdated to] December 22, 2023.”

Asbarov is currently ranked No. 8 in the cruiserweight division by The Ring Magazine, although that will change soon.

The 32-year-old boxer was found to have violated RUSADA anti-doping rules 4.1 (presence of a prohibited substance or its metabolites or markers in a sample collected from the athlete) and 4.2 (Utilize or attempted employ by an athlete of a prohibited substance or a Prohibited Method). Both clauses impose full responsibility on athletes for any substance detected in their body.

This development crushes the initial momentum of the two-year pro, who quickly managed to break into competition.

Asbarov’s second professional victory was an eight-round knockout of veteran fighter Dmitry Kudryashov in September 2022.

Just six months later came a victory over another cruiserweight brute. Asbarov defeated Brandon Glanton by ten-round majority decision on March 18 in Dubai. For now, this is his last victory in history.

Asbarov defeated Papin in the second round of their October 28 fight, en route to a ten-round unanimous decision. This feat caused him to shoot up The Ring’s rankings, and Papin dropped out of the top ten. The matter is currently up for a vote on the ring’s ratings panel, and Papin is expected to return after this week’s update.

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Carl Frampton has urged Tyson Fury to rematch Oleksandr Usyk after seeing him “throw away victory”.

Usyk won his undisputed heavyweight title fight in Riyad, Saudi Arabia – where Frampton was ringside – but to do so he had to come from behind after a challenging first six rounds.

He threatened to stop previously undefeated Furia in a dramatic ninth round, but both fighters entered Saturday’s fight with contract clauses that would force a rematch at the end of 2024, increasing the likelihood that they will fight again.

When Fury spoke in the ring after the fight, he spoke about his belief that he, not 37-year-old Usyk, deserved to win, and also stated that he wanted a rematch. When he then spoke at the post-fight press conference, he was reluctant to reveal his plans and, after long preparations for the biggest fight of his career, instead talked about resting before deciding on his next move.

Ahead of his first fight against Deontay Wilder in 2018 – previously the biggest he had been involved in – Fury appeared on the undercard of Frampton’s victory over Luke Jackson at Windsor Park in Belfast when he passed Francesco Pianeta, with Frampton saying: “I think that he can win the rematch. I think he turned the fight down.

“I don’t want to hurt Usyk – he won. Halfway through the distance, they approached me as an expert and I had my fourth fight [rounds to] two to Fury. Usyk was injured on the body; he went into some uppercuts. I indicated that it would be challenging for Usyk to come back and I didn’t really see a way to do it, but he dug deep and did exactly that, and I gave Usyk the fight for a round – six rounds each and a ‘knockdown’ was the difference for me.

If he does win, I still think he’s a must-have as one of the top heavyweights [ever]. Either way, he would definitely be among the top ten greatest heavyweights. If she beats him in the rematch, it will be a massive fight and it will be another fight if she beats him in the rematch because both of them are not like Leo Santa Cruz – they want to settle scores, not just [having won] one by one.

“I love Usyk. I love everything about him – he’s a phenomenal fighter.

“AND [also] I think it was good for [Fury] be delicate. Performance was high. That suited him.

It was in the days before the retired Frampton’s victory over Jackson of Australia that it became clear that Fury – at this stage just one fight away from returning after almost three years of inactivity, during which he became suicidal, abused drugs and alcohol and rose to approximately 30 – He was next scheduled to fight the fearsome Wilder.

If fighting one of the most unsafe boxers in history represented a significant and premature risk that could end his comeback, then his participation at the age of 35 in the first undisputed heavyweight title fight since Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield in 1999 was again more than justified a risk that ultimately became one of the most vital chapters of one of the most fascinating stories.

“I was surprised,” Frampton reflected on his reaction to the news in August 2018. “He didn’t look impressive in any of the fights he had before Wilder after a long layoff. I knew he was a brave man, but I was surprised.

“The first fight, of course, ended in a draw, but the whole world knew that Fury won the fight. But [I was] surprised that he was fighting a guy like Wilder at this stage – for both careers – and in my opinion beat him.

“There was a lot of hype about Wilder’s presence [in Belfast]and about Fury. I really thought it was probably too early for him, but he proved me wrong and as he said before this fight, he’s up to the challenge and he did it against [in 2015, Wladimir] Klitschko; he did it in three fights with Wilder.

“Other fights, e.g [Derek] Chisora; [Dillian] Whyte, he does all the work. When the pressure is on on massive, vital nights, he rises to the occasion. If he gets a chinlock then [against Wilder in December 2018]I think the comeback has already come.

“It’s an incredible journey that Fury has been on. Wilder’s fights, and even if Chisora ​​and Whyte weren’t the ideal opponent, they were massive fights in vast stadiums. The Usyk fight is probably the biggest fight of my life; the biggest one I have ever participated in as a broadcaster [for TNT Sports]. I was buzzing about it – absolutely buzzing.

“It’s been an amazing journey – it really has been. Look at his state at one point after Klitschko’s massive victory when he really went crazy. He grew taller, out of shape and as if he would never fight again, and looking at how bad he looked back then, the change was phenomenal. I believe he is one of the greatest heavyweights who ever lived – truly. He could compete – you could argue he could beat anyone who ever lived in the heavyweight division.

“It’s weird [that so significant a fighter fought on my undercard]. It’s one you can tell your grandchildren about, you know what I mean? “Fury fought on my card.” He will be remembered. To say he fought for me with the main support at Windsor Park – huge.