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Tyson Fury never looked better. Though “Boxing math” is an unreliable approach to fight prognostication, it's increasingly safe to say that given the sheer ease at which the capable (if heretofore overrated) Dillian Whye was handled Saturday, any version of popular UK rival Anthony Joshua would have fared not much better, against the skyrocketing Gypsy King. Regardless of what transpires for him against the early 1970's sized Oleksander Usyk, we should still hope to see a reduced value clash of two of Great Britain’s greatest big men of the Queensbury era. And who knows? Maybe the once thought to be great A.J. will produce enough push-back in that (still) historic clash to warrant what his promoters had flippantly regarded as an “interim fight”, against Ultimate destroyer American Champion Deontay Wilder in a fight that he (Joshua) has less chance at winning than he would one against Fury; and that would settle the transatlantic question that America would pay great attention to, given the Joshua team's flippancy.
As for Whyte? He is precisely what I've been posting he was. Very Good contender. Danger Man. Not in the same class as Fury, Wilder or Joshua. Just not..Obviously
So here is approximately (!) how it stands (As I see it...well, today at least) amongst the Big Men under the History-Important fight Rules, during the 21st century so far.
The best of the 21st Century
Top 25 - 21 Years into the 21st Century
(A random select 85 - 100 Other 21st century contenders considered): Tubbs, Bean, Golota, Akinwande, Maddalone, Moorer, Tua, Castillo, Briggs, Holyfield, Botha, Maskaev, J. Ruiz, Maddalone, T. Fields, Estrada, Walker, Rossey, S. Peter, Kirk Johnson, Beck, Krence, Whitaker, Bonin, Byrd, Whittaker, Grant, Izon, Schultz, Toney, McCline, Jefferson, Shufford, Mercer, Levin, Donald, S. Nielsen, Oquendo, J. Williams, B. Neilsen, A. Schulz, Savaresse, Donald, Ryan, Nobles, Westgeest, Clay-Bey, Nicholson, Austin, Arreola, Valuev, Sykes, Skelton, McCall, Wach, Brock, D. Williamson, Hersisia, Esch, Gunn, Rahman, Barrett, Bergeron, Solis, David Drumond, Lianhovich, Sosnowski, Harrison, McBride, Takam, T. Ibragimov, J.C. Gomez, Etienne, Mesi, Dimitrenko, Krasniqi, Vidoz, Boswell, Samil Sam, Camron, D. Williams, Meehan, Abell, Calloway, Charr, Brewster, S. Ibragimov, Mollo, Rogan, Virchis, McDermott, Arreola, Kayode, Mansour, Mitchell, Ugonoh, Adamek, Leapai, Tor Hamer, Chambers, Cunningham, Sexton, Saleta, Boytsov, Cornish, Scott, Grano, D. Holmes, Stiverne, Chisora, Glazkov, Huck, Jennings, Duhaupaus, Szpilka, Hammer, Molina, Pianeta, DeMori, Helenius, Price, Ustinov, Gerber, Teper, Washington, Breazeale, Kownacki, Cojanu, Browne, Schwarz, Kauffman, Wallin, H. Fury, Zhang, Hunter, Gorman, Rivas, Hrgovic, Sanchez, Ajagba, Kean, Dychko, Bakole, Kabayel, Bryan, Fa, Balogun, Franklin, McKean,
Or........The 2nd Half of the Modern Era - 60 years, 1962 - 2022
Tyson Fury never looked better. Though “Boxing math” is an unreliable approach to fight prognostication, it's increasingly safe to say that given the sheer ease at which the capable (if heretofore overrated) Dillian Whye was handled Saturday, any version of popular UK rival Anthony Joshua would have fared not much better, against the skyrocketing Gypsy King. Regardless of what transpires for him against the early 1970's sized Oleksander Usyk, we should still hope to see a reduced value clash of two of Great Britain’s greatest big men of the Queensbury era. And who knows? Maybe the once thought to be great A.J. will produce enough push-back in that (still) historic clash to warrant what his promoters had flippantly regarded as an “interim fight”, against Ultimate destroyer American Champion Deontay Wilder in a fight that he (Joshua) has less chance at winning than he would one against Fury; and that would settle the transatlantic question that America would pay great attention to, given the Joshua team's flippancy.
As for Whyte? He is precisely what I've been posting he was. Very Good contender. Danger Man. Not in the same class as Fury, Wilder or Joshua. Just not..Obviously
So here is approximately (!) how it stands (As I see it...well, today at least) amongst the Big Men under the History-Important fight Rules, during the 21st century so far.
The best of the 21st Century
Top 25 - 21 Years into the 21st Century
- Tyson Fury
- Lennox Lewis (Lennox went 6-1 (5) in 21st Century b. 09/02/1965)
- Wladimir Klitschko
- Deontay Wilder
- Anthony Joshua
- Vitali Klitschko
- Oleksandr Usyk
- Luis Ortiz
- Dillian White
- Chris Byrd
- Andy Ruiz
- Alexander Povetkin
- Joseph Parker
- Hassin Rahman
- Mike Tyson (5-3 (5) in this century, keep in mind. Holyfield went just 8-6-2 (4) and doesn't make this list)
- Jarrell Miller
- David Haye
- Kubrat Pulev
- Tony Yoka
- Ruslan Chagaev
- Joe Joyce
- Corrie Sanders
- Tony Thompson
- Charles Martin
- Daniel Dubois
(A random select 85 - 100 Other 21st century contenders considered): Tubbs, Bean, Golota, Akinwande, Maddalone, Moorer, Tua, Castillo, Briggs, Holyfield, Botha, Maskaev, J. Ruiz, Maddalone, T. Fields, Estrada, Walker, Rossey, S. Peter, Kirk Johnson, Beck, Krence, Whitaker, Bonin, Byrd, Whittaker, Grant, Izon, Schultz, Toney, McCline, Jefferson, Shufford, Mercer, Levin, Donald, S. Nielsen, Oquendo, J. Williams, B. Neilsen, A. Schulz, Savaresse, Donald, Ryan, Nobles, Westgeest, Clay-Bey, Nicholson, Austin, Arreola, Valuev, Sykes, Skelton, McCall, Wach, Brock, D. Williamson, Hersisia, Esch, Gunn, Rahman, Barrett, Bergeron, Solis, David Drumond, Lianhovich, Sosnowski, Harrison, McBride, Takam, T. Ibragimov, J.C. Gomez, Etienne, Mesi, Dimitrenko, Krasniqi, Vidoz, Boswell, Samil Sam, Camron, D. Williams, Meehan, Abell, Calloway, Charr, Brewster, S. Ibragimov, Mollo, Rogan, Virchis, McDermott, Arreola, Kayode, Mansour, Mitchell, Ugonoh, Adamek, Leapai, Tor Hamer, Chambers, Cunningham, Sexton, Saleta, Boytsov, Cornish, Scott, Grano, D. Holmes, Stiverne, Chisora, Glazkov, Huck, Jennings, Duhaupaus, Szpilka, Hammer, Molina, Pianeta, DeMori, Helenius, Price, Ustinov, Gerber, Teper, Washington, Breazeale, Kownacki, Cojanu, Browne, Schwarz, Kauffman, Wallin, H. Fury, Zhang, Hunter, Gorman, Rivas, Hrgovic, Sanchez, Ajagba, Kean, Dychko, Bakole, Kabayel, Bryan, Fa, Balogun, Franklin, McKean,
Or........The 2nd Half of the Modern Era - 60 years, 1962 - 2022
- Muhammad Ali
- George Foreman
- Larry Holmes
- Lennox Lewis
- Tyson Fury
- Mike Tyson
- Sonny Liston
- Joe Frazier
- Wladimir Klitschko
- Evander Holyfield
- Deontay Wilder
- Anthony Joshua
- Ken Norton
- Vitali Klitschko
- Rid**** Bowe
- Cleveland Williams
- Jerry Quarry
- Jimmy Young
- Ron Lyle
- Zora Folley
- Jimmy Ellis
- Oleksander Usyk
- Earnie Shavers
- George Chuvalo
- Andy Ruiz Jr. / Ike Ibeabuchi / Gerrie Coetzee / Tim Witherspoon / Michael Dokes / Luis Ortiz (Tie)
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