Comments Thread For: Joshua Throws Water at Tyson Fury's Lineal Champion Claim

[solid_jab1987]

You're not the world champion AJ you're the champion of the UK.. If you were for real you would have flown your ass to LA and sat ringside to watch Wilder/Fury fight in person, that would have indicated to the World that you are for real and that you are wanting to fight these men next

What's the point when they've both stated they don't want to fight him next? I think Joshua should block these two chumps out and clear out the rest of the division until one of them comes begging. Whyte 2, Miller, Ortiz, Pulev, Kownaki, Usyk there's plenty of other opponents without having to fight the other two drama Queens. Imo Fury has a massive shot of beating Josh but Joshua has nearly all the belts and therefore has nearly all the power.

[_Rexy_]

Yes it is. The linear HW title is the Ring magazine belt which Fury was stripped of about a year ago for inactivity. It can only be won or lost in the Ring, and it does trace back to John L Sullivan. You and Josh should read a book or two on boxing history.

No it’s not. Unless you don’t think any division had a lineal champion between 1988 and 2001. Tyson Fury is the lineal champion no matter how much it angers Matchroom fans

[Noelanthony]

What a joke that certain fighters want to act like ibo is a realbelt,ggg/aj/Eubank jr are/were both trying to hold that weak pos ibo so that when these dîckriding writers mention/ed them it sounds like they have 4 belts instead of 3 to the casuals. It works too because everytime they mentioned ggg & his paper titles they claimed he was "unified mw king" & yet when Canelo is mentioned after taking gs trinkets hes never called remotely the same despite having 10x better resume.

That’s because GGG was unified King . Yes Billie Joe had a belt that’s why he was not undisputed. However many felt GGG could blow him away. That Middleweight division was crap in quality then so my gripe with GGG at the time was to move up and test yourself.

As for Canelo not being viewed like GGG., money talks and Canelo is getting paid and that’s all that really matters

[vitali1999]

You bought that “24 hour deadline or it’s a mandatory” statement? It wasn’t an IBF mandatory, and even they would have bent for a unification. Hell, Hearn just said the other day that Wilder doesn’t have to fight Fury because “unification trumps mandatory”

Nothing Trumps a mandatory. You fight your mandatory and then you fight the other belt holders. IBF don't play that game like the sh_t WBC. You don't fight their mandatory then they'll strip your ass

[W1LL]

The real test comes when AJ/Hearn put on their next show. If they fight someone like Dillian Whyte or Michael Hunter in April, no way they do near 80,000 tickets again, and likely will be dissent in the crowd. Hearn will be booed heavier than ever at any AJ event. The tide is definitely turning, can see it in Hearn's demeanour during interviews lately. He's been knocked down a peg or two for sure, the arrogant twot.

[SeGoodland]

AJ squirming because hes left holding his ****, without a dance partner.

His belts are worthless ***elery when the whole world know you've spent your whole career cherry picking the easy fights and avoiding the top guys.

Joshua has a better resume than Wilder and Fury. No denying it. Its a FACT.

[jas]

Inaccurate title



He threw water at the lineal title period. He didnt dispute whether fury was lineal champ

He said he didnt even hear of it before

[Jkp]

Joshua has a better resume than Wilder and Fury. No denying it. Its a FACT.

Fury ortiz wilder all better than anyone on AJ's. And probably all beat GayJ too.

[allen23]

The unified champ has spoken

come on man u cant consider him unified until he fights wilder or/and fury. he never beat a champion to win them titles ( and dont refer to wlad who spent two years out of the ring after a defeat and was in his 40's).

hes just salty as wilder and fury have grabbed his limelight and hes went from being the guy everyone wanted a piece of to the guy who needs to prove himself after the fight in LA. serves him right for thinking the game was in his hands without having to fight the best, u cant cheat the public

[SeGoodland]

Fury ortiz wilder all better than anyone on AJ's. And probably all beat GayJ too.

Wilder and Ortiz are better than Klitschko!? Don't make me laugh.

Whyte would beat Ortiz and probably Wilder.
Breazeale would probably beat Ortiz and possibly Wilder.
Povetkin would probably beat Ortiz and possibly Wilder.
Parker would probably beat Ortiz. Doubt it against Wilder though.

Fury has is a great win against Klitschko, a decent recovery win against Cunningham, a boring retirement rematch v Chisora and now a robbery draw against Wilder.

Fury is great HW boxer and will probably fight top fighters in the next few years but don't make yourself look silly.