I made the effort to watch the entire fight after it first appeared on Youtube that very evening Australian time. Well, one thing's for sure: the footage can be prescribed as a handy remedy for insomnia, for it certainly pushed me towards the brink of sleep...
Let's get straight to the point: Klitschko's "performance" was awful. His punches were pitifully bereft of speed, timing, and accuracy. His movement and "ring craft" were equally unimpressive. Particularly in the early rounds there was plenty of pretty back and forth bouncing on the toes but he couldn't be bothered to make even a half-arsed effort to restrict and confine the constantly back-pedalling and jabbing Fury.
Klitschko obviously underestimated the gyppo and thought he could win with minimal effort, probably based on the assumption that the inevitably evasive challenger would run out of steam after the fifth or sixth round and consequently be easy to outpoint in front of a "home" crowd. All in all, Klitschko appeared amateurish and very much past his expiry date. Sounds harsh, but the visual evidence speaks for itself...
Everyone here knows I'm not a fan of the loud-mouthed Fury and of pikeys in general but I'll admit that he did enough to win. Mind You, the listless Klitschko made it astonishingly easy for him.
Fury had shed plenty of excess weight in order to have the crucial ability to keep moving briskly for all twelve rounds. He used his albatross-like reach to full advantage to out box and hence out-point the Ukrainian. Despite his endless pre-fight bull**** artistry, Fury was never going to knock Klitschko out. Instead, he stuck to his plan and emerged with the belts. But I'll wager he was genuinely shocked at how straightforward it all was.
The final round exposed Fury's limitations but also highlighted those of Klitschko. Even when - at long last - he displayed a bit of raw aggression, the Ukrainian was unable to land any significantly damaging shots on a flagging Fury. And here's the pith: throughout the fight, Klitschko looked like a boxer whose skills and motivation have rapidly declined over the past year. Given his age, that's hardly a surprise...
By the time any re-match takes place, Klitschko will be 40 years old. In my opinion, one has to be quite stupid, delusional, stubbornly proud, avaricious, or debt-ridden - or any combination thereof - to step into the ring after the age of 38 or thereabouts. Klitschko appeared to be simply going through the motions and it was quite apparent that he was completely unwilling to absorb a few punches early on in order to get in close and work on Fury's less-than-resilient looking body (that pikey certainly has his trunks hitched up high enough...), a basic tactic which may very well have altered the course of the fight.
One last thing: on most of the occasions when the pair clinched (which was way too often) Fury wasted no time in rabbit punching Klitschko and trying to strike the Ukrainian's kidneys and spine. Classy stuff, but only to be expected from someone of Fury's ilk. Then again, Klitschko stuck in a big blatant head butt during the eleventh round...