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An amazing fight in Riyadh on Saturday between Oleksandr Usyk and Tyson Fury -- the former narrowly, but deservedly, taking the victory and surely vaulting himself into the conversation of greatest of all-time. A high level fight with some great looks and nice little details. Lets take a look:

Usyk went with his typical well-matched set of Ukraine colors. A great dot-point / beehive pattern, seen initially in his sweatsuit pre-fight:

A closer look at the trunks:

The design on the waistband is apparently an ancient Christian symbol.

The bee on the side of Usyk's trunks is the logo of a boxing "web3" app that was founded by Usyk himself. Logo below in yellow (from the website):

Note that the dot-points are actually beehive hexagons.

The back of Usyk's trunks featured the name Maria, the name of his newborn daughter:

Usyk wore matching Rival gloves with "UKRAINE" on one thumb and "CHAMPION" on the other:

He wore matching footwear with USYK and the bee logo:

Fury put up a great performance and had a good look himself:

He wore forest green and gold - with a bit of black, a common look for him, in a gladiator style trunks. His Paffin Sport gloves were a lighter (and mismatched) shade of green, as has been the case in many of his previous fights. He wore black and gold Nike footwear. A closer look:

You'll notice the waistband is black, as is the front flap of his gladiator trunks. The green has a great little pattern that played well off of the arena lights, glistening a bit depending on the angle.

His Paffin Sport Gloves with Gypsy King logo:

Black and gold Nikes:

Very strong looks from both men - and a historic fight.

What a fight. 

SNBoxing wrote this about the unforgettable match this past Saturday night in Las Vegas:

“Fury-Wilder 3 transcended the notion of a boxing match, even a great one. The fight included five knockdowns, three from Fury and two from Wilder, and resulted in a Fury 11th-round stoppage, but even those eye-catching statistics fail to capture the nature of what transpired in the ring. Fury-Wilder 3 will be remembered for the ferocity of its combat, the unyielding determination of its fighters, and how each combatant was unwilling to succumb.”

Have a look at the previous fights here and here....now lets have a look at each man’s gear for the third fight:

Fury repeated his template from the previous two fights, although in this iteration the background of his trunks include gray-filtered images of him throughout his career. 

A zoom in:

View of the back:

Gold and forest green side paneling as well, with a black waistband with FURY in gold across the front, and GYPSY KING across the back. He wore the same lime green and gold Paffin Sport gloves as his previous two fights:

He wore black and gold Nike footwear:

The critiques are similar to previous iterations - the shades of greens on his side panels and gloves don’t match, its always hard to find matching gold shades across brands and materials. That said, I think Tyson’s look is great and worthy of such an outstanding and historically important fight. It also meshed well with Wilder’s colors and look. 

Wilder had a very unusual trunk cut. It essentially appeared to be a unevenly torn kilt at knee length on his right leg to mid/lower thigh on his left. I didn’t love it. I did love the colors and pattern he chose:

Red trunks with a black drawn circular patterns, silver waistband with WILDER in his usual font across the front and BRONZE BOMBER across the back. He also sported black knee length leggings with silver trim. Some trunk detail:

View of the back:

Wilder wore standard black Everlast gloves with white trim, which I think was a great choice given the flashiness of his trunks. 

As usual, outstanding footwear from Wilder:

Altogether, I really liked what Wilder did, even though I didn’t love the cut of the trunks. He put together a unique, unforgettable look with a great color scheme for a historic fight - that’s what this blog is all about. 

What a great fight....

...what an astonishing display of courage, toughness and determination by both men. 

Tyson Fury misdirected about his ring wear but did not misdirect about his plans in the ring, as he fought an aggressive fight against a valiant but ultimately over-matched Deontay Wilder, stopping Wilder in the 7th in Las Vegas. It was truly a remarkable performance from Fury. Interesting looks that maintain some of the same aesthetics of their first fight.

Fury wore trunks of nearly the same template as his 2018 fight with Wider, except that they were black instead of forest green, with gold trim and font. His 2018 set had gold side panels while the 2020 set had dark forest green side panels (so dark that at first I thought he had all black trunks).

Some side detail:

Overall, a great set although we could do without the Pacquaio-esque number of ads. One note is that the “Y” on FURY on the back of his trunks, in this fight, did not have the extra tail on it that he’s had (inexplicably) in other fights (eg, here and here).

Fury went with green Paffin gloves with gold lettering (Fury had worn Everlast for his last few fights) and Tyson along the thumb:

He wore white and gold Nike footwear and black socks:

Wilder wore a black and bronze set that was clean and understated. As always, matching shades of “bronze” proves difficult, but it was a good look overall.

His trunks had many similarities, aside from color, to those he wore in his second fight against Ortiz.

Wilder across the front, black-on-black stripes along the side, and BRONZE BOMBER in a curious font along the lower back legs.

He had black Everlast gloves with bronze thumbs:

He wore black and bronze Everlast shoes with some slick BRONZE BOMBER socks. Nice touch:

A classic night of boxing.