And that's just it: Wlad did not just fail to show up. Fury was giving him a myriad of looks and feints that he clearly hadn't dealt with before. I grant that Wlad is not what he once was - who is, at that age? - but even after his unimpressive showing against basketball star Jennings, about 70% of everybody had him crushing Fury without breaking a sweat.
Put another way, the immense anti-Fury bias colored most predictions. More objective observers could see that Wlad has been fading steadily for a while, and that Fury has been steadily improving on using his physical attributes to work from the outside. A few of us called this: that despite the talk of an electrifying brawl, Fury could and would work from the outside and win a boring fight. In the end, it wasn't so very different from the Chisora and Hammer fights.
Put another way, the immense anti-Fury bias colored most predictions. More objective observers could see that Wlad has been fading steadily for a while, and that Fury has been steadily improving on using his physical attributes to work from the outside. A few of us called this: that despite the talk of an electrifying brawl, Fury could and would work from the outside and win a boring fight. In the end, it wasn't so very different from the Chisora and Hammer fights.
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