He was meant to fight both Klitschkos, he had to withdraw against Vitali in 09/10ish with a back injury then eventually got in with Wlad in 2011.
Fought Chisora in 2012 then Vitali wouldn't agree to arrange another fight.
2013 - Massive shoulder injury plus a cut and something else cancelled 3 fights Charr and Fury x2
2014 - INJURED
2015 - INJURED
2016 - 2 warm-up fights by May then does nothing for rest of year (could've fought for WBO vacant title)
2017 - Bellew loses via achilles injury, Bellew 2nd fight
Wastes a year on Tony Bellew, I truly believed he would come back to defeat Joshua and Wilder etc but without that WBO belt it's gonna be hard to negotiate a big HW fight. I believe an elite athlete can still achieve greatness at 37 - 38 years old.
But when you start to get 39 years old and 40 years old it's a lot harder to do and will any big heavyweights want to fight him in the next 12 - 18 months ?
It's sad, but I can see him getting pulverized by Anthony Joshua in 2018 for a final payday. He will have to get through Tony Bellew first though. I'm not sure he can even manage that anymore.
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