Official Tyson Fury vs Wladimir Klitschko Post Fight Discussion Thread

[Elroy1]

Fury is different in 2 respects from anyone Wlad has fought before.

1. He has the tools - greater height and longer reach than Wlad plus a fast, accurate jab - to land more punches from long range than he takes.

2. Fury can use foot work combined with upper body movement and feints to create openings for his punches at close quarters. He won't just stand there and allow Wlad to grab and hold him, then wait for the ref to call break, reset, and go through the whole routine again.

Fury will be landing punches, and keeping Wlad working, for as long as he's in the fight. And the longer it goes, the better his chances become. He has youth and fitness on his side. Fury doesn't need to take breathers the way Wlad does.

The first point was very relevant. Fury is the tallest and all of the other towering opponents except six five Thompson and six four Pulev have been more oafish than Fury.

But the second was nonsense, Fury is no Haye, Chambers, Ibragomov or Brock in the movement and skills dept.

[Weltschmerz]

Have you seen the pictures of him next to Joshua ? I knew Wlad was heavily built but when you see him next to Joshua you realise just how big he really is. His arms especially, they're like tree trunks.

From when Joshua was in his camp prior to the Pulev fight. Keep in mind too, Vlad is close to 40, Joshua a prime specimen in his mid 20s.

[Weltschmerz]

Sometimes 20/20 hindsight is an interesting thing....its a great exerscize at times. For example, if we pretended that Holly Holm was fighting Ronda Roussey...tomorrow and we had to construct a viable hypothesis for how holm would win the fight, we might construct something that looked very much like what happened. "Holm stayed on her feet, was really mobile and able to deal with Roussey's ground game before it got going. This allowed her boxing skills to work for her."

If we imagine that Fury has won this fight and what would be said we would probably get a great idea of what Fury needs to do to win.

Eehh... what kind of comparison is that

[Weltschmerz]

Just leaving these here;








Fury doing tha dip dance against Nicolai Firtha.

Firtha is a beast, doe.

[yoz]

Just leaving these here;






Fury doing tha dip dance against Nicolai Firtha.

You forgot:


But, of course, Fury's defence is better than Wlad's...

[Weltschmerz]

lest we forget

[removed]

I'll just leave these here -

[Slip Stream]

Fury, "MMA is for White kids that can't box?" Oh **** I ****ing lost it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Daud]

Why is the poll closed two days before the fight?

[Pigeons]

Looking forward to this one. One of the few fights my girl is looking forward to as well.