Fury vs Wilder is the defining rivalry of this era.

It also brought back Heavyweight interest on a global scale AJ sells out stadiums to casuals in the UK but it doesn’t really move the needle outside of that. Fury v Wilder rivalry crossed over to popular culture with the biggest celebrities in popular culture trying to attach themselves to it on social media and whatnot. It brought back heavyweight boxing in the USA and everywhere else really. Completely agree. AJ still hasn’t cracked America and the awful performance against Ruiz only made things work. Fury vs Wilder delivered three epic fights and really brought the glamour back to the division globally.

It also brought back Heavyweight interest on a global scale AJ sells out stadiums to casuals in the UK but it doesn’t really move the needle outside of that. Fury v Wilder rivalry crossed over to popular culture with the biggest celebrities in popular culture trying to attach themselves to it on social media and whatnot. It brought back heavyweight boxing in the USA and everywhere else really. They were the perfect dance partners really. It almost made it better that one of them is clearly better than the other, but the lesser fighter is just ridiculously dangerous.

How’s it not a rivalry? :lol1: So after Pac-JMM 3 you didn’t consider that a rivalry cause Marquez was 0-2-1 like Wilder is? It’s not like Wilder hasn’t been competitive either, he’s put him down 4 times in 3 fights, Fury is simply a great fighter who has Larry Holmes like powers of recovery. I guess Robinson-LaMotta weren’t a rivalry either. :lol1: Fury vs Wilder has been epic, first fight was unbelievable, best 12th round I’ve ever seen live in the flesh, 2nd fight was one sided but nobody seen that coming, I fancied Fury on points but I don’t think anybody outside the Fury camp expected Fury to walk Wilder down and dominate him like he did and then the most recent fight was the best of the lot, constant action, huge momentum shifts, both guys down multiple times. Incredible fight. Incredible rivalry.

It’s a rivalry? It seems to me like the champion lost so he contractually forced a guy to keep whipping his ass. This is pretty much it.

Not a rivalry at all. He got beat 3 times and in two of two of those fights he had a small window of opportunity to actually win (but still got dominated. TBH if it was the other way around and Tyson Fury was the American, then the opponent would have been forgotten.