Does Boxing's respectability as a legitimate sport still exist at this point?

[sentax]

Of course the man on top was proclaimed the winner lmao

[Tatabanya]

The sport is OK, more or less.

It's the current heavyweight boss - the man on top, as you call him - who's become scarcely respectable of late.

[BKM-]

The sport is OK, more or less.

It's the current heavyweight boss - the man on top, as you call him - who's become scarcely respectable of late.

He carries the sport on his back, the way the HW king has done for most of the sport's history.

I don't agree with boxing fans trying to isolate the sport from the HW champ. They're a part of eachother. Fury didn't just hurt himself last night, he hurt the sport too.

[YGriffith]

No it doesn't.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Yes. One heavyweight embarrassed himself fighting MMA guy.

[MGalante]

It’s a horrible look for the game. I thought Chavez jr losing to an old as **** mma fighter was bad. The heavyweight champ just struggled with a ufc fighter making his boxing debut. Pathetic and a black eye to boxing.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Would Bivol struggle with MMA guy of his size in a boxing match?

Would Canelo struggle?

Would Haney struggle?

Do we need more these fights to make sure?

[Smash]

fighting big guys who have the potential to put you on your ass at any moment is difficult, how difficult this ngannou is would need to be put to the test v some other good boxer i would say, fury may well have made a total mess of it or else he was just not prepared for a very tough opponent or somewhere in between

[RJJ-94-02=GOAT]

It’s lower than it’s ever been before.

[PerfectJab]

Heavyweight boxing is different ESPECIALLY in this era.
That is something that people who are shocked don't seem to realize.
Today it's all about size and how hard you can hit and take a hit. That's all. No great technique or strategies.

Fury is a sloppy fighter and has always been that way. Won the title in one of the worst championship fights in history.
He is used to fight much smaller or weaker guys and bully and lean on them. Wilder is big but has extremely weak legs. Ngannou's legs are trunks and he is the first one Fury's faced that was big and strong enough to not be bullied or leaned on.
THAT was Fury's problem.