Tommy Fury wins Split Decision over Jake Paul
Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury: Before the Bell
After a long anticipated wait over 2 or so years, we finally got to see Jake Paul and Tommy Fury in the ring together, ready to go at it. The fight was scheduled for 8 rounds at a catchweight of 185lbs, but was considered cruiserweight. Going into the fight, both fighters were predicting a knockout, as most fighters do. There was a lot of bad blood between these two for a long time which prompted a lot of people to assume there would be a knockout. Our [short] Twitter poll said that 69% of people were expecting the fight to end with a knockout with the remaining 31% saying it would go the distance.
Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury: Rounds 1-4
Once the bell went for round 1, Tommy Fury was eager to get started. He came out front and centre establishing himself in the ring. Tommy set his jab in place straight away by landing accurately. Jake seemed to take the first round to see if he could figure Tommy out, as he did not throw to much, and anything he threw wasn’t significant. A lot of clinching by Jake in the first few rounds which felt like he didn’t want to give Tommy the range he needed to possibly land a KO blow.
As it continued, Jake grew into the fight, landing some good shots on Tommy. A few jabs land on the button for Jake and bounce Tommy’s head back. The counter punches seemed to come from Fury all night, waiting for Jake to miss so he could punish him but Jake’s head and body movement did enough to make Tommy miss.
In these first half of the fight, we gave 3 of the rounds to Tommy as he seemed the more dominant and relaxed of the two. But we did give Jake Paul round 3 as he was coming of better in the exchanges and Tommy looked to be taking a break by stepping off the gas a little.
Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury: Rounds 5-8
The second half of this fight is where everything got interesting. In round 5 Jake Paul was penalised, and deducted a point for hold down the back of Tommy’s head. The referee didn’t seem to give many warnings, and if anything, there should have been more warnings for the clinching. It was scored a 10-8 round for Tommy which was a big blow to Jake Paul as he was already behind on most people’s cards with only 3 to go.
In the 6th round, the drama took another turn as the referee again, takes a point for clinching this time. Only the point was taken from Tommy Fury. Maybe the referee was giving back for the previous round’s point deduction on Jake Paul, as it did seem a little unfair. The 7th was a good round for Tommy which he would have needed going into the final round to help secure the win.
Just when we thought all of the drama was over, Jake Paul lands a solid jab right to the chin of Tommy Fury and sends him to the canvas. Tommy complains to the referee that it was a slip, but it was given as a knockdown for Jake Paul. Meaning he had scored another 10-8 round as the final bell went.
Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury: Score Cards
With 2 point deductions, a knockdown in the final round and a few rounds that may have gone either way depending on what the judges seen. We went to the score cards in what was definitely an exciting fight.
The first judge give the fight to Jake Paul but the other 2 judges, rightly gave the fight to Tommy Fury, resulting in a Split Decision win for Tommy Fury. The score card for this fight is now available, with the results of the other bouts, including; Badou Jack vs Ilunga Makabu.
Jake Paul vs Tommy Fury: The Take Away
The fact of the matter is, both of these fighters are novice fighters in their own way. Tommy is a novice at a professional level with not much experience since turning pro. With Jake, we have a man, whether you love him or hate him, who has pushed himself to a boxing level that really isn’t bad when you consider he only lost a split decision against a novice professional who has been fighting all his life. If this fight was not put on the pedestal that it was, no one would have had much to say about both fighters expertise.
When it comes down to it, Jake Paul really isn’t a bad fighter. If he wants to be taken serious in the sport of boxing, he does have to take a few fights with fighters on his level. However, from what we have seen since, he certainly knows how to pull in a crowd and boost those PPV sales.
As for Tommy Fury, he really had no other option but to take this fight because, if he didn’t he was “ducking a YouTuber” and if he had lost then his whole boxing career would have been destroyed. In order for Tommy to be taken serious as a professional boxer, he now needs to focus on fighting professional boxers and moving his way closer to a title opportunity. The longer he plays around with this YouTuber/Influencer boxing, the more damaging it will be to his boxing career. However, these paydays will be extremely difficult to turn down…