If Tyson Fury...

[Mr Objecitivity]

probably make him pound for pound number 1. for some reason heavyweights dont get any credit in pound for pound rankings but if he beat them, along with beating wlad, then he'd be top of mine.

In my rankings, heavyweights don't belong in pound for pound rankings and sub-heavyweights don't belong in heavyweight rankings. Pound for pound rankings are only for boxers below heavyweight where there isn't an unlimited weight division they are competing at.

[Caught Square]

If he can just get back to fighting weight I would be highly impressed, he's blown up before but never for this long. A few months ago it looked like he was starting to get the weight off then the UKAD thing was pushed back to October (still no date) then he just ballooned back up. The ghost of 2015 Tyson Fury in Dusseldorf will lurk over the division for years.

[club fighter]

This thread is so much pure fantasy that I got nauseous reading it.

Fury is a no talent bum and would lose badly to AJ, Wilder, and I don't even think he'd get past Whyte, Breazeale, or Parker.

When will you UK fans realize how much of a scam he is?

[TheBigLug]

How many rounds would the prime Foreman or Tyson need to KO Molina or Takam?

Tyson went 12 rounds with guys that were no better or worse than Takam. I wouldn't say guys like Mitch Green or James Tillis were necessarily any better than Takam. Foreman also went the distance with some journeymen on the way up.

The fact is that it's boxing and you run into guys that are not that good but hard to get rid of.

[Mr Objecitivity]

To be honest, the first step to determine the best heavyweight is to get all the top heavyweights fighting against each other. These days, boxers are being called the 'best' heavyweights or 'top' heavyweights without them even fighting a single top ranked boxer (in the case of Deontay Wilder).

Obviously, Anthony Joshua has proven himself to be a top level boxer by beating top boxers. Parker to some extent as well. So beating those guys will be more impressive than beating Deontay Wilder. However, there are other heavyweights like Kubrat Pulev, Povetkin and Ortiz that also are among the best. There is no undisputed best yet in the current heavyweight division. So those guys have to fight each other to establish who is the true best!

If Fury just beats one or two of them, it won't really do much for his legacy. However, if he beats them and dominates by consistently beating other top opponents, then he would surely cement a legacy. It could potentially make him an ATG.

[KillaCamNZ]

We might as well talk about the possibility of Aliens landing tomorrow and campaigning for world peace.

Sadly, people really are holding onto hope that this 400lb disappointment, will give enough of a **** to find a way back in the ring.

[Butt stuff]

This thread is so much pure fantasy that I got nauseous reading it.

Fury is a no talent bum and would lose badly to AJ, Wilder, and I don't even think he'd get past Whyte, Breazeale, or Parker.

When will you UK fans realize how much of a scam he is?

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Now I see why that poster has problems on here ,now I feel like I was picking on him . Gotta love club fighters insights .

[club fighter]

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OK u got me.
So you dug up a half decade old thread (before his comeback) for this?
I'll admit he proved the world wrong in handling Wilder how he did, proved he's the best heavy out there right now, but when this thread was created he was a 400lb basket case, unwilling and unprepared to defend his title.

With a weak resume and an unimpressive win over an aging Klitchko, then falling off the face of the earth in a drug induced stupor, outside of the fanboys on this thread, that was the consensus on him.

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OK u got me.
So you dug up a half decade old thread (before his comeback) for this?
I'll admit he proved the world wrong in handling Wilder how he did, proved he's the best heavy out there right now, but when this thread was created he was a 400lb basket case, unwilling and unprepared to defend his title.

With a weak resume and an unimpressive win over an aging Klitchko, then falling off the face of the earth in a drug induced stupor, outside of the fanboys on this thread, that was the consensus on him.

Not really he came back 6 months after this thread and the smarter posters knew he was going to get wins on Wilder even before he announced his comeback if he chose that path . He didn’t have any titles ,he was going to get in enough shape to easily deal with the poorest technical boxer which he did .