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A little Devils advocate.....
Where I see holes in the repeating theory:
"Fury is past Prime"
Why? Because he saw Ngannou as a no-threat opponent and played around in preparation and during the fight? Forget the Ngannou fight, and stop acting like it means anything. Fury won, and Ngannou went on to demonstrate that Fury indeed had nothing to worry about with him. Sparring the MMA GOAT was just fun and Money. Fury was never better than he was against Chisora and Whyte, both comming off career best performances, in the champ's last two real fights.
"The Wilder wins mean nothing because Wilder sucks"
Well, everybody has their favorite fighters, and their least favorites. Some choose to construct a mythology around Wilder based not on facts, but on Envy of America, racisim, ******ity, or whatever. But it's fairly simple, really. If you win an Olympic games medal, win 43 pro fights, scoring 42 KOs, make 10 title defenses vs. WBC ranked challengers, step up against the lineal champion and fight a draw, engage an historic trilogy against that champion, and boast of the highest KO rate of any major governing body titleholder in history, and stay solidly among the 3 top men in the world within the highest paying, most historically significant combat sport for eight years without interruption; at the very least, you don't "Suck".
6 months ago, the same kind of things were said about Joshua. If Usyk looses to Fury, and we need to prepare for that, they'll say that HE sucks too.
That's just how some fans are.
But not the knowledgeable & reasonable ones.
Those fans, they show respect for people doing extraordinary feats.
Where I see holes in the repeating theory:
"Fury is past Prime"
Why? Because he saw Ngannou as a no-threat opponent and played around in preparation and during the fight? Forget the Ngannou fight, and stop acting like it means anything. Fury won, and Ngannou went on to demonstrate that Fury indeed had nothing to worry about with him. Sparring the MMA GOAT was just fun and Money. Fury was never better than he was against Chisora and Whyte, both comming off career best performances, in the champ's last two real fights.
"The Wilder wins mean nothing because Wilder sucks"
Well, everybody has their favorite fighters, and their least favorites. Some choose to construct a mythology around Wilder based not on facts, but on Envy of America, racisim, ******ity, or whatever. But it's fairly simple, really. If you win an Olympic games medal, win 43 pro fights, scoring 42 KOs, make 10 title defenses vs. WBC ranked challengers, step up against the lineal champion and fight a draw, engage an historic trilogy against that champion, and boast of the highest KO rate of any major governing body titleholder in history, and stay solidly among the 3 top men in the world within the highest paying, most historically significant combat sport for eight years without interruption; at the very least, you don't "Suck".
6 months ago, the same kind of things were said about Joshua. If Usyk looses to Fury, and we need to prepare for that, they'll say that HE sucks too.
That's just how some fans are.
But not the knowledgeable & reasonable ones.
Those fans, they show respect for people doing extraordinary feats.
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