Tyson Fury knocks out Oleksandr Usyk as AI predicts how and when fight will end

Tyson Fury will knock out Oleksandr Usyk in the fourth round of their rematch come December 21 - according to a popular video game at least.

The 'Gypsy King' and the 'Cat' are set to run it back at the Kingdom Arena in Saudi Arabia come Saturday (December 21) night in one of the biggest rematches in heavyweight boxing history. Usyk became the first undisputed champ at his weight class since Lennox Lewis in 1999 back in May when he beat Fury for his WBC world title - adding to his collection of WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and IBO belts.

It was an incredibly close state of affairs between the two men, with the undefeated Ukrainian bolstering his professional boxing record to 22-0 via split decision when the judges had the bout 115–112, 114–113 and 113–114 in his favour. And the loss not only meant that Fury had missed out on undisputed greatness, but it also marked the first fight in which he had been beaten by any man.

Now sitting at 34-1-1, 36-year-old Fury will hope to atone for his loss in Riyadh seven months ago by exacting revenge on his 37-year-old opponent. And if video game Undisputed is anything to go by, then he will win in spectacular fashion when the two meet in the squared circle once more - albeit not claiming undisputed status after Usyk vacated his IBF belt.

That's because we simulated a fight between the two men using the system, and Fury ran out as a convincing victor courtesy of a fourth-round knockout of his fierce rival. But how did the software come to this conclusion? And what did the fight look like as it unfolded?

In effort of making the simulation as fair as possible, we fine tuned the in-game settings ahead of the showdown. We first notched the AI difficulty of both fighters up to its highest setting