Fury/Pianeta was the perfect fight for Fury...

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He needs the round. He would have gain nothing stopping Pianeta early.

Pianeta looked in pretty good shape actually, I expected him to retire mid fight after he realised he couldn't touch Tyson. Credit to him.

[Ray*]

Pianeta looked in pretty good shape actually, I expected him to retire mid fight after he realised he couldn't touch Tyson. Credit to him.

Yeah but am not sure if Fury actually carried him a bit to get those rounds in, if he’s going to be competitive against Wilder he would need to last those 12 rounds.

[MulaKO]

Pianeta looked in pretty good shape actually, I expected him to retire mid fight after he realised he couldn't touch Tyson. Credit to him.

You’re absolutely right
Pianeta did tough it out
I expected him to fold long ago , third fourth round

[Madison Boxing]

I don't think some of u realise quite how low down the pecking order pianeta is. He got stopped by safetypin Johnson and is 138 in the world. He's miles behind even Chisora and hammer.

[Scopedog]

I think scoring a big early knockout would have been a good hype builder for the Wilder fight, but wouldn't have been as valuable for Fury in terms of practice, and I think he knew it. He followed a gameplan that was clearly more about looking sharp and doing rounds than landing big punches and he followed it to a tee while still testing out a few different facets of his game - fighting orthodox and southpaw, slipping and blocking Pianeta's offense, and even some inside fighting - and nevertheless he didn't really get out of second gear. And who knows, maybe him going the distance with Pianeta might cause Wilder to underestimate him a bit.

[alexguiness]

If the Fury that fought Klit fights the Wilder that fought Ortiz...

Fury by shut out, he would get tagged a few times but ultimately have Wilder hitting fresh air for most of the fight.

He'd give windmills a boxing lesson TBH.

[Jewish-Reptile]

Fury looked like he wanted Pianeta our immediately here’s a guy stopped in one by an obese Chagaev over three years ago and outworked by Kevin Johnson.

In the seventh Fury looked lost for ideas and it appears Hatton told him to use his trick vs Tszyu, hit him low he’ll gas. I’m not sure what positives to draw, it’s evident Fury hasn’t the power to stop Wilder and we know Wilder could lose 11 rounds and stop Fury at any time which is what I expect happens.

They’ll be able to sell Wilder as lineal against Joshua after this fight I wouldn’t agree on current lineage though like TBRB have Fury listed no.10 I’m of the same opinion he’s definitely top ten with the current poor state of the division, I’m just glad he’s back and active he won’t be around long though.

[Jewish-Reptile]

If the Fury that fought Klit fights the Wilder that fought Ortiz...

Fury by shut out, he would get tagged a few times but ultimately have Wilder hitting fresh air for most of the fight.

He'd give windmills a boxing lesson TBH.

Pianeta found Fury repeatedly, Wilder is sharper, fitter and lighter on his feet and the heaviest puncher in the division hell the sport for that matter.

[Jewish-Reptile]

I think scoring a big early knockout would have been a good hype builder for the Wilder fight, but wouldn't have been as valuable for Fury in terms of practice, and I think he knew it. He followed a gameplan that was clearly more about looking sharp and doing rounds than landing big punches and he followed it to a tee while still testing out a few different facets of his game - fighting orthodox and southpaw, slipping and blocking Pianeta's offense, and even some inside fighting - and nevertheless he didn't really get out of second gear. And who knows, maybe him going the distance with Pianeta might cause Wilder to underestimate him a bit.

You don’t think Fury tried to get him out of there from the opening bell ? I thought it was evident he was trying to get him out in one to show he could actually stop Wilder, as the rounds progressed Fury appeared to realise he knew he hadn’t the power to stop him and he’d elect to try look flashy instead, pretty difficult when you look in the shape he looked, I watched the fight after it finished whilst my woman was messing about on her phone and she said ‘why is he so fat, isn’t he supposed to be professional’ I kinda laughed and said he’s lost nearly 60-70 lbs she looked at me like I was lying !

[_Rexy_]

Aye.. But if he can see the shots coming (unlike the right hand steve dropped him with) and absorb most of the power with a tight high guard I can see fury getting inside wilders power range he could really **** him up on the inside

Wilder needs full extension on his shots to unleash that power.

I can really see a scenario in which Fury changes from trying to box on the outisde to walking him down and try to **** him out on the inside.

But aye you're absolutely correct Fury is one of the few guys in boxing who can read and react and adapt on the fly.. Some boxers can follow a gameplan marvelously but when it fails they can't just nake adjustments on the fly..

Fury is a marvellous talent, his boxing IQ is second to none. Remember though, Wilder also has a very underrated jab (it wasn't used in the Ortiz fight much because of the southpaw issue, but he dominated Stiverne with it.) and the first Ortiz KD (the one that was ruled as a slip) was actually from a lightning quick right hand at short distance as Ortiz was coming in. The ref didn't see it, hell none of us saw it until someone posted a slow motion gif on here the next day.

anyways, I guess what my rambling ass is TRYING to say, both guys are extremely underrated on here for certain things that they are good at, and I think this is a very interesting match up.