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As said above, Tysoe fury is an incredibly adept boxer and moves more like a middleweight than a heavy weight. His footwork is quick and concise, meaning that he is constantly altering his angle of attack and that of his opponent. His ability to slip punches though is something else. Whether he's ducking, swaying back or sliding to the side, he seems to see the punch almost before it's unleashed and by the time it gets to where it was aimed he's long gone. Whyte tried again and again to launch a big one and just couldn't connect. In fact the only man who has was Wilder and then Fury just had a breather, jumped back up and was at it again. He's a phenomenon
The MMA fight was stopped because the beefcake was on his back and taking punches to the head with no attempt to defend himself. That's a straight red card (so to speak)
I guess the way you can look at a heavyweight boxer's physique is that they need to do a lot of training to be fit and strong, like Chris Froome. The difference is that Chris Froome massively watches what he eats as well, because being as light as possible is a big advantage in road cycling. In heavyweight boxing that's not the case and as mentioned before the lower weights only lose weight to make weight.
So is it a given that the retirement is just a ploy and that he will finally give the heavyweight division the first belt unification fight since, I don't know, is it foreman or something?
Is usyk fighting in Ukraine? Surely that fight will happen at some point
Well - thanks people for responding to my deliberately dim comment. Judging by the replies I might even go and watch him now - I’ve always found heavyweight boxing fairly dull - not that I am all that interested anyway but generally found lower weights to have more interesting bouts.
Seems strange to say there’s nothing more he can do if he hasn’t won a unification bout. Maybe he’s just waiting to see how much money they offer him…
^ watch the Fury / Wilder trilogy and I can guarantee you will change your mind if you have anything like a real interest in the sport. Some of the best boxing seen in recent history.
watch the Fury / Wilder trilogy and I can guarantee you will change your mind if you have anything like a real interest in the sport. Some of the best boxing seen in recent history.
Steady on!
Fury is indeed a phenomenal boxer, outstanding skills for a heavy. But I’ve seen many more skilled boxers than fury and far better displays of boxing. Never by a guy weighing 19 stone however!
It’s almost a paradox watching him in the ring. He’ll blow away Joshua easily, other than one punch power he is better in every way. Still think Lewis would have beaten him though. For all his skills he’s never fought anyone near Lewis’s class.
The answer to the retirement question as with most things in life is Rummy's Corner:
Boxing may be a noble sport but the shorts look ridiculous
Still think Lewis would have beaten him though. For all his skills he’s never fought anyone near Lewis’s class.
I think Lewis is remembered through rose tinted glasses as time has gone on. Other than Razor Ruddock for the eliminator he was in another poor period for heavyweights. Tyson was all but done and his career high seems to be a draw and a win over 39 yo Holyfield.
I've never been a massive boxing fan, and have very little knowledge, but I'm always drawn to it.
I've been watching the Ali documentary series on iPlayer, which is brilliant in itself, but that man as a boxer - just wow. Lightning fast hands and feet, incredible to watch and unbelievable (to my eyes) for a heavyweight
Still think Lewis would have beaten him though. For all his skills he’s never fought anyone near Lewis’s class.
I think Lewis is remembered through rose tinted glasses as time has gone on. Other than Razor Ruddock for the eliminator he was in another poor period for heavyweights. Tyson was all but done and his career high seems to be a draw and a win over 39 yo Holyfield.
disagree - Lewis' legacy has got stronger since his retirement. I've had a look on wikipedia - Boxing News ranked him has 3rd greatest heavyweight of all time and The Ring ranked him as the greatest heavyweight of the last 30 years (albeit 11th greatest of all time)
He fought and beat everyone he faced, avenged his two losses, and beat Riddick Bowe as an amateur and then Bowe ran away from the fight as pros.
I reckon Lewis had the ringcraft and his power would've beaten Fury. He faced better opponents than Fury as well IMO. Only Klitschko had pedigree. but anyway - lets not go all....
"Joe Louis was the greatest boxer who ever lived, when he fought marciano he was 75 years old"
I think Lewis is remembered through rose tinted glasses as time has gone on. Other than Razor Ruddock for the eliminator he was in another poor period for heavyweights. Tyson was all but done and his career high seems to be a draw and a win over 39 yo Holyfield.
I think the heavyweight division is always remembered with rose tinted glasses, there's always larger discrepancies within that weight, which lends to a lot of mismatches in fights, Lewis was a great boxer, he showed his skill through the years and knew when his time was up, a lot of them don't get that lucky.
As for Ali, he was from a period where boxers would have 5 fights a year easily if they wanted too, and would just go around the division fighting each other a few times, so many things going on in that era as well, both in and out of the ring, crazy compared to today's competition.