James Ali Bashir: "Ref saved Fury from being KO'd.. He'd just be an average fighter without that size advantage!"

[FlatLine]

Usyk's former trainer James Ali Bashir agrees with most people when he says that the ref saved Fury from being knocked out. Then in his closing statement he says "if Tyson Fury wasn't 6'9, we wouldn't be having this conversation. If he was 6'3 or 6'4 he'd just be an ordinary fighter". Fair points?

[ELPacman]

I think so, but then again, you can't make "what if" a definitive statement. Tyson is who he is because of his size and mobility for that size. If you want to diminish his size, then yeah, his style becomes something else, but you could say that for soooo many fighters. You can't take away an attribute and say, they become nothing without it. Sure, it might be true, but that's not a possibility because they are what they are for that reason. This is like pure hater talk when you come up with things like this. It's like pulling out the last straw or anything you can find to hate on someone.