Why are so many posters blaming Fury for his size against USS?

[Barry Halls]

look at the size of the atg heavyweights.

Size is overrated at heavyweight. The punch resistance is almost the same and you gain much speed by being a smaller man.

[A-Wolf]

Reading through the comments made to the front-paper's articles about yesterdays fight between USS and Fury, I noticed, that a lot of this forum's posters do blame Fury for being so big and fighting a smaller fighter in Cunningham.

I think it is ridiculous that any poster could make negative statements about weight or size in HW boxing. As far I as remember HW is the division without limitations. You are allowed to be whatever weight or height you like.

If you do not like the differences between USS and Fury you should blame USS and not Fury - USS did know exactly what he went into when he entered HW.

Peace.

Then you're either biased or a fool. And I've just entered the discussion. Having obscene disparity in height, in particular, is a MASSIVE advantage in boxing. If you've got five, six, or seven+ inches of height advantage plus three, four, or five+ inches of reach advantage on somebody it's barely even going to be a fight if the opponents are relatively evenly matched.

[Dasim22]

Individually discussing, I thought Fury's health and fitness and health and center was just as important as his dimension this time circular. He dug strong, took the battle to Cunningham and pressured Bob to box at a speed that he found relaxed.

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[techliam]

Why blame anyone?

The fight didn't really mean anything for Fury. There was almost universal expectation of him winning so for him it was basically a stay busy fight with a sanctioning body upping his ranking

As for Cunningham, he wanted to stay at Heavyweight, his own doing

[SlySlickSmooth]

I just didn't like how it was one of the most blatant rough house tactic I've ever seen to score the KO. Forearm dirtier than Hopkins and Mayweather.

[yoz]

BJ Flores and the other NBC commentators kept going on and on about size.

Cunningham CHOSE to fight at heavyweight, after a couple of losses at cruiserweight. If he's too small for heavyweight, then he should have remained at cruiserweight.

This ^.

He's a natural CW, so what did he expect?

[TGD]

Agree. If he doesn't like it, Cunningham can take his crying ass back down to Cruiserweight.

[atomicsad]

Nothing wrong with padding your record with small guys. A lot of champions do it all the time.

[BEDROOM BULLY]

look at the size of the atg heavyweights.

Size is overrated at heavyweight. The punch resistance is almost the same and you gain much speed by being a smaller man.

Exactly.. normally 95% of the time.. the smaller guy coming up is faster then his larger opponent..

What he gives up in size he gains in speed and agility.. over bigger HWs

It didn't stop Roy Jones coming up in weight and outboxing Ruiz

Or even Haye.. who is a similar size too

I'd take skill/Speed over size anyday..