Anyone notice the best Brits take more risks than most US fighters?

[PeepeePoopooMan]

Seems like a true statement. Specifically the african americans the ones less open to taking risks

[PeepeePoopooMan]

taylor is a semi bum? he has wins over prograis who is #2 right now, postol #4 right now, and baranchyk #6 right now and prograis was #1 when he fought him and postol #2 when he fought him. tank has literally fought one top 10 fighter his entire career which was pedraza at #6. you cant say quality over quantity when you dont really care about that. in fact you care about the complete opposite. next taylor is figthing the #1 guy again while tank is figthing some random guy who got schooled bya 7-0 fighter lol. quality for sure!

Lmao that guy is absolutely pathetic. Barrios is a quality opponent but taylor is a bum. You completely obliterated his logic and manhood.

green k se......nvm

[boxinglife8]

Quality over quantity. I consider someone like Josh Taylor from that area a semi-bum. The quality of British boxers has always been questionable. Their bums are MASSIVE down there, our champs are bums over here.

How tf is Taylor a semi bum.Your just hating.He beat prograis.And btw if Tank doesnt duck Prograis he will get his brakes beaten off him.

[Toffee]

No HW has taken riskier matchups than that. What matchups were riskier? He was a considerable betting underdog in both Klitschko and Wilder 1 how is that not taking a risk when you’re expected to lose.

The first Wilder fight was crazy risky. He wasn’t in great shape, he wasn’t prepared in regard to opposition, Fury could have easily continued his comeback tour fighting bums like Seferi but instead he went over to America and fought the most fearsome puncher in the division. I thought he was crazy jumping into that fight and feared he was simply cashing out. I can’t believe you don’t recognise that as a ballsy decision. That’s the riskiest fight a HW has taken in years IMO.

Well I believed he would win that fight so I saw it as a great opportunity rather than a risk.

As for the risk element. He could have carried on fighting bums, but who would have held the belt by the time he'd built himself back into the division? He knew, as most did, that Wilder was a great opportunity. A decent payday, and a champion who had falsely been built into something off limited boxing ability with a need for a good name on his resume. So he was fooled into picking the out of shape ex champ.

Fury risked the opportunity to fight bums to instead fight Wilder. That's no risk at all. Big fight, but not a big risk.

Fighting a contender would have been a bigger risk.

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

Well I believed he would win that fight so I saw it as a great opportunity rather than a risk.

As for the risk element. He could have carried on fighting bums, but who would have held the belt by the time he'd built himself back into the division? He knew, as most did, that Wilder was a great opportunity. A decent payday, and a champion who had falsely been built into something off limited boxing ability with a need for a good name on his resume. So he was fooled into picking the out of shape ex champ.

Fury risked the opportunity to fight bums to instead fight Wilder. That's no risk at all. Big fight, but not a big risk.

Fighting a contender would have been a bigger risk.

What contender would have posed more risk than Wilder though? Wilder is a riskier opponent than any other guy in the division. Even if you don’t like the guy you can’t deny he is an extremely dangerous opponent, which therefore makes him a risky opponent. You only have to look at the 12th round of the first fight to see how dangerous that fight was for Fury.

[kushking]

Well I believed he would win that fight so I saw it as a great opportunity rather than a risk.

As for the risk element. He could have carried on fighting bums, but who would have held the belt by the time he'd built himself back into the division? He knew, as most did, that Wilder was a great opportunity. A decent payday, and a champion who had falsely been built into something off limited boxing ability with a need for a good name on his resume. So he was fooled into picking the out of shape ex champ.

Fury risked the opportunity to fight bums to instead fight Wilder. That's no risk at all. Big fight, but not a big risk.

Fighting a contender would have been a bigger risk.

This is so outrageous I can't believe you stand by this? The very definition of cherrypicking(as most current champs do) is to fight bums instead of dangerous Undefeated champs. Name 1 single fighter Fury could've fought riskier than Undefeated prime Deontay?Fury was Undefeated had never lost lineal in the ring,he could've faced a bum then Shyte,then AJ in the UK for big money. He instead chose to go after Wilder right away,& he was almost ktfo the 1st fight by him for good reason (despite Wilder being 1 dimensional low ring iq)

[Toffee]

I think people are struggling with the word 'risk'. It indicates that you have something significant to lose. Taking a tough or dangerous fight isn't same as taking a risk. Buster Douglas didn't take a risk in fighting Tyson.

2+ years ago Fury wasn't some storied lineal champion with everything to lose. He was a man who had already lost it all. Fury didn't pick Wilder. The voluntary doesn't pick the champion.

Fury was offered an unbelievable opportunity. It was Wilder who took the risk.

And yes, a riskier fight than Wilder would have been anyone half decent with no great status or decoration. Think about your Dillian Whyte type fighters. No-one really knew if Fury could step straight back up, you never know until they do it - but if he had and lost to someone not at title level it would have ended his career. And you can always lose in the Heavies. Stepping straight from Pianeta and Seferi into a title fight wouldn't end his career. He could have lost and got credit for stepping back up to that level.

So I stand by my statement that fighting Wilder wasn't a big risk.

[Marchegiano]

Hard to take risks when you're top guy and your home is where all the money is.