Casual Fans overlooking Fury's mastery of his Era?

[dan-b]

If Tyson wasnt so big he probably doesn't win a title, this is the era of the giants and should be in a new SHW division, fans call TC crazy and cant win going up 20lbs, Inoue cant go up to Davis yet guys give tyson up to 60lbs or more, at a what point doesn't weight matter or are weight bullies only held to that if you don't like them if and they are bigger. As far as skills speed and straight up fighting this era is the worst HW era I ve seen in 50yrs, the people pumping up these giants are fans from the same era because that's all they know, I find it very hard to believe an old time boxing fan could be excited with today's HWs, in my eyes the rest of boxing have improved a lot, while the HWs have gone backwards, they are like the Sumo of boxing the bigger you are the more chance you have.

I barely watch the HWs today because there is very few skills and fighting that I like to see from real boxers like the best of the lower divisions.

I get that impression too. Many of the most outspoken Fury fans seem to be young men in their 20s. It's why they're cool with all the social media stuff too. It's unfathomable to them that we just want to see guys get in the ring regularly and fight the best - rather than just talk about it.

It's why I posted Lewis - Holyfield 2 in the forum recently. A reminder of when the two best heavyweights were athletes prepared to get in the ring twice in a calendar year to prove it.

[Toffee]

Michael Spinks was introduced as 'recognised by many to be the true heavyweight champion' (or words to that effect) before the Tyson fight.

Foreman was something along the lines of 'defending the status he has never lost in the ring'. I don't think they referred to 'Lineal'.

Briggs was just a challenger

[Toffee]

If Tyson wasnt so big he probably doesn't win a title, this is the era of the giants and should be in a new SHW division, fans call TC crazy and cant win going up 20lbs, Inoue cant go up to Davis yet guys give tyson up to 60lbs or more, at a what point doesn't weight matter or are weight bullies only held to that if you don't like them if and they are bigger.

They're not fighting in a division. They're in the open weight class.

This is about deciding the best. Like, the actual best.

[Roadblock]

They're not fighting in a division. They're in the open weight class.

This is about deciding the best. Like, the actual best.

Thats why its BS, the bigger you are the bigger the advantage, boxing in its essence is two men of very close size, all combat sports operate on that because professional fighting is supposed to be a fair fight, having an unlimited weightclass just turns it into a freak show where less than 1% of the population is of this size, Fury is the second biggest HW in history, and saying he was the best of his era being the biggest is just BS to me, the whole lot of them don't have the skills or fight that the last era of HWs had right back to the 40s

The actual best fighters are 130 to 175, this is the point where speed power and endurance is at its best and the numbers of competitors is highest, so being the best of 30 jumbos doesn't compare with being the best of a pool of 1000s of athletes.

I haven't watched HW boxing since we began the Klitschko days, I'd much sooner watch the WW MW and lightweights, that's where the real fighters are.

[Toffee]

Thats why its BS, the bigger you are the bigger the advantage, boxing in its essence is two men of very close size, all combat sports operate on that because professional fighting is supposed to be a fair fight, having an unlimited weightclass just turns it into a freak show where less than 1% of the population is of this size, Fury is the second biggest HW in history, and saying he was the best of his era being the biggest is just BS to me, the whole lot of them don't have the skills or fight that the last era of HWs had right back to the 40s

The actual best fighters are 130 to 175, this is the point where speed power and endurance is at its best and the numbers of competitors is highest, so being the best of 30 jumbos doesn't compare with being the best of a pool of 1000s of athletes.

I haven't watched HW boxing since we began the Klitschko days, I'd much sooner watch the WW MW and lightweights, that's where the real fighters are.

It won't work like that. Boxers get bigger... then the cycle resets as someone faster and more skillful takes down the big oaf. See Valuev v Haye.

But the best fighters are not at 130 to 175. The best are at the open weight class. Objectively, that's true.

Someone has to be the best. The person who can beat anyone else in a ring. That's what gets proven in the heavyweight division. We don't separate sprinters by height, the fastest is the best.

[BodyBagz]

Flubber's ''best'' W's -

Shot Wlad. A ''fight'' where no one wanted to actually fight.
Ranked most boring ''fight'' ever. Regardless of div.

Mr Bum Squad himself (3x...2-0-1. Should have been 3-0). A guy who FLUBBER FANS called a one trick pony with the weakest resume.
Now they rank him as an ATG with the highest KO % !!!!! A lot of dirty tactics used in that 2nd fight. Kenny Useless must have been a Flubber fan that night.

Ok, now it get's tricky....

Del Bum 3x (the last fight to help Del Bum pay his rent ). A glorified, 4th rate gatekeeper.

[BodyBagz]

It won't work like that. Boxers get bigger... then the cycle resets as someone faster and more skillful takes down the big oaf. See Valuev v Haye.

But the best fighters are not at 130 to 175. The best are at the open weight class. Objectively, that's true.

Someone has to be the best. The person who can beat anyone else in a ring. That's what gets proven in the heavyweight division. We don't separate sprinters by height, the fastest is the best.

HW is the only div that doesn't have to make weight.

How would you make it make sense to match a 6'7'' 265 lbs vs a 5'10'' 160 lbs
''May the best man win.''

[Toffee]

HW is the only div that doesn't have to make weight.

How would you make it make sense to match a 6'7'' 265 lbs vs a 5'10'' 160 lbs
''May the best man win.''

What words did you think you were responding to?

[Dr. Z]

Fury could've done a lot better, tending the flock and collecting hardware. That long medical sabbatical didn't help in the early phase of his reign, but it certainly may have saved his life, so the good folks will cut him slack there. Even now, however, he's big on issuing challenges and making other provocative statements designed to rile people up, and the fans have grown pretty tired of the show, and just want him to fight, and preferably, fight the best!

But looking back carefully at the Tyson Fury era of Heavyweight history, we can see that he hasn't done as badly as all that, with 10 fights against the 50 best of the era (based on a pretty good list of the 50 best).

What are your thoughts about how he's been doing?


This Generation 2015-2025 - Heavyweights

2013 - 2023

1. Tyson Fury
2. Deontay Wilder
2. Deontay Wilder
2. Deontay Wilder
3. Oleksandr Usyk
4. Anthony Joshua
5. Wladimir Klitschko
6. Zhilei Zhang
7. Andy Ruiz Jr
8. Luis Ortiz
9. Alexander Povetkin
10.Dillian Whyte
11.Joe Joyce
12.Daniel Dubois
13.Filip Hrgovic
14.Jarrell Miller
15.Joseph Parker
16.Kubrat Pulev
17.Otto Wallin
18.Frank Sanchez
19.Robert Helenius
20.Derek Chisora
20.Derek Chisora
20.Derek Chisora
21. Arslanbek Makhmudov
22.Charles Martin
23.Carlos Takam
24.Martin Bakole
25.Jared Anderson
26.Tomasz Adamek
27.Chris Arreola
28.Tony Thompson
29.Bermane Stiverne
30.Michael Hunter
31.Tony Yoka
32.Johann Duhaupas
33.Bakhodir Jalolov
34.Efe Ajagba
35.Daniel Dubois
36.David Haye
37.Bryant Jennings
38.Agit Kabayel
39.Gerald Washington
40.Murat Gassiev
41.Jermaine Franklin
42.Shannon Briggs
43.Dominic Breazeale
44.Adam Kownacki
45.Ruslan Chagaev
46.Fabio Wardley
47.Christian Hammer
48.Alexander Dimetrienko
49.Aleksandr Ustinov
50.Hugie Fury


The bullpen:

Simon Kean , Zhan Kossobutskiy, Ivan Dychko, Mariuz Wach, Richard Torrez Jr., Stephen Shaw, Mairis Briedis, Ali Erin Demirezen, Oscar Rivas, Vladyslav Sirenko, David Price, Artur Szpilka, Eric Molina, Lucas Browne, Jerry Forrest, Francisco Pianeta, Lenier Pero, Jonathan Rice, Tom Schwarz, Travis Kaufman, Alex Leapai, Vyacheslav Glazkov, Demsey McKean, Kevin Lerena, Jerry Forrest, Rostislav Plechko, Izuagbe Ugonoh, Amir Mansour, Justice Huni, David Allen, Erkan Teper, Eddie Chambers, Sergey Kuzmin, Malik Scott, Edmund Gerber, Trevor Bryan, Nathan Gorman, Evgeny Romanov, Johnathan Guidry, Razvan Cojanu, Agron Smakici, Viktor Vykhryst, Jose Larduet, Bogdan Dinu, Andrey Fedosov, Attila Levin, David Adeleye, Michael Wallisch, Oleksandr Zakhozhyi, Frazier Clarke, Kingpin Johnson, Joe Cusumano, Mahoud "Manuel" Charr, Michael Polite Coffie, Audley Harrison, Kem Ljungquist, Dillon Carman, Junior Fa, Albert Sosnowski, Fres Oquendo, Mike Balogun, Andrii Rudenko, Marcin Siwy, Deontae Pettigrew, Derric Rossy, Mike Perez, Tre Lippe, Sam ***ton, Odlanier Solis, Joey Dawejko, Solomon Haumono, Przemyslaw Saleta, Kertson Manswell, Joe Hanks, Gurgen Hovhannisyan, Joey Abell, Hemi Ahio, Alexis Santos, Ebenezer Tetteh, Tor Hamer, Agron Smakici, Raphael Akpejiori, Joseph Goodall, Chazz Witherspoon, Darmani Rock, Joshua Tufte, Kelvin Price, Apti Davtaev, Miljan Rovcanin, George Arias, Seth Mitchell, Gary Cornish, Lenroy Thomas, Cassius Chaney, Bronco Billy Wright, James McKenzie Morrison, Kash Ali, Fred Kassi, Peter Kadiru, Adrian Granat, Sonny Conto, Franz Rill, Daniel Martz, Leif Larsen

Fury has beaten a very old Wlad, and an overrated Wilder. He was likely on PED's for the Hammer fight , and was suspended for over a year because of it. Was he on PED's for Wlad too that was right after the Hammer fight? He lost a fight with fair judging on points to McDermott. This man fouls his way around the ring as he has been docked points FIVE times in five separate fights. He has beaten very few ring magazine ranked opponents in their prime.

I am tired of him not fighting top competition, backing out of fights, and acting like a goof.

[dan-b]

Foreman was something along the lines of 'defending the status he has never lost in the ring'. I don't think they referred to 'Lineal'.

Briggs was just a challenger

Foreman had the WBU and IBA belts bestowed upon him so it's interesting the announcers chose to ignore those. It was obviously a bid by minor sanctioning bodies to gain credibility which didn't work.

Boxing's institutions for a long time were prepared to allow the Big Three the opportunity to behave as true custodians of the sport. As late as 2001 (and possibly beyond) it was within the Ring's championship policy that unifying the three belts would be sufficient to be recognised as Ring champion. They ignored the WBO which helped keep them a minor sanctioning body (which I was in favour of).

HBO were still naming the sanctioning bodies until well into the 2000s before an editorial decision was made to only refer to them obliquely. The sanctioning bodies have repeatedly squandered opportunities to behave appropriately and I hope this leads to their eventual downfall.