Comments Thread For: Lineage Matters Most at Heavyweight

[Robbie Barrett]

I know you're a teenager and started watching boxing yesterday, but the "major rankings" have absolutely nothing to do with lineal. It's the man who beat the man. Period. Nobody is dis*****g that Fury is lineal except for obsessive Joshua fans.

The rankings sites are dis*****g it if they don't recognise him.

Lineages end and new ones start. Fury's ended. Just like Lennox Lewis's did. Just like Mayweathers did when he retired for a couple of years.

[Robbie Barrett]

Plenty of lineal champions have gone longer than two years between fights. If you weren't a teenager who started watching boxing yesterday, you'd know that.

He accepted a backdated "ban" once he was ready to come back. None of which had anything to do with the fight he won the lineal title in, nor any fight where the lineal title was defended.

He got banned for being a ****ing cheat. Lineal champions lose the status when they say they retire. Mayweather lost his status when he took a 2 year retirement.

You aren't even a fan of boxing, you admitted it, of course you don't know ****. You just fancy Wilder.

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The rankings sites are dis*****g it if they don't recognise him.

Ranking sites don't determine lineal.

Ring rankings determine Ring champion, not lineal champion. Boxrec rankings determine Boxrec champion, not lineal champion.

The entire boxing world, except for obsessed AJ fans on the internet, agrees Fury is the lineal champion. He's the consensus lineal champion whether you like it or not. Stop being a hater. It's okay. AJ doesn't have to be the only fighter alive. Other fighters are allowed to exist.

[PotentialToast]

Surely, the best is the man with the most. And at Heavyweight, that is Joshua.

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Lineal champions lose the status when they say they retire.

I agree with you, but Fury quickly said he was just joking and the boxing world decided he was still lineal. If you don't like it, that sucks for you. I know AJ is very important to you. But Fury beat Klitschko before AJ did. And even if that makes you upset, it doesn't change the facts.

[Jsmooth9876]

Ah that imaginary title that guys can still hold after being out of the sport for years snorting coke ...

[Robbie Barrett]

Ranking sites don't determine lineal.

Ring rankings determine Ring champion, not lineal champion. Boxrec rankings determine Boxrec champion, not lineal champion.

The entire boxing world, except for obsessed AJ fans on the internet, agrees Fury is the lineal champion. He's the consensus lineal champion whether you like it or not. Stop being a hater. It's okay. AJ doesn't have to be the only fighter alive. Other fighters are allowed to exist.

Sites like ESPN, TBRB and CBZ don't recognise him either. Boxingscene posted a thread the other day and the majority of posters don;t recognise him as lineal. He's not, no matter what they try to push down peoples throats.

[Robbie Barrett]

I agree with you, but Fury quickly said he was just joking and the boxing world decided he was still lineal. If you don't like it, that sucks for you. I know AJ is very important to you. But Fury beat Klitschko before AJ did. And even if that makes you upset, it doesn't change the facts.

The boxing world? Sites like ESPN, TBRB, CBZ? That don't recognise him.

Even if you search lineal champs it comes up with Wiki and Fury isn;t lineal anymore.

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Sites like ESPN, TBRB and CBZ don't recognise him either.

Oh really? ESPN doesn't recognize Fury as lineal champion? Weird. Because I watch ESPN all the time and they always call Fury the lineal champion. Same thing on their website.

http://www.espn.com/boxing/story/_/i...ews-conference

Dan Rafael
ESPN Senior Writer

LOS ANGELES -- Throughout the dealmaking process and the promotion of their fight, it is obvious that heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury like and respect each other.

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The boxing world? Sites like ESPN, TBRB, CBZ? That don't recognise him.

ESPN recognizes Fury as lineal champion and constantly refer to him as such on TV and on their website. TBRB determines the TBRB champion, not the lineal champion. CBZ doesn't recognize Fury anymore, but CBZ has been overwhelmingly overruled by the rest of the boxing media.

Even if you search lineal champs it comes up with Wiki and Fury isn;t lineal anymore.

Anybody can edit Wiki, including obsessive teenage AJ fans such as yourself.

ESPN, Ring Magazine, all the major newspapers, BoxingScene, etc all refer to Fury as lineal champion.