I don't think that today's heavyweights are as good as the heavyweights of the past. But we can't put Wilder in with Holyfield, or Fury in with Lewis, so it doesn't matter.
What we have in Fury, Wilder, Joshua, Whyte, Ortiz and now Ruiz, with Usyk to come, is a roster of heavyweights with massively different physical attributes and skill sets. The triangle theory will not work here and I genuinely don't believe any of them beats any other ten times out of ten, except maybe Fury against Ruiz and Usyk because of the size difference.
So I don't give a **** about who's overhyped or whatever, the important thing is that they just fight. A defeat should not be the end of the world to any of these fighters. Wilder is not a bum because he got outboxed by Fury, because he could still KO the rest of them, and he could even KO Fury in a rematch. Joshua is still a top level heavyweight even though Ruiz smashed him around the ring, because he could still beat all of them.
It's a great time for heavyweight boxing. Just ****ing fight.
What we have in Fury, Wilder, Joshua, Whyte, Ortiz and now Ruiz, with Usyk to come, is a roster of heavyweights with massively different physical attributes and skill sets. The triangle theory will not work here and I genuinely don't believe any of them beats any other ten times out of ten, except maybe Fury against Ruiz and Usyk because of the size difference.
So I don't give a **** about who's overhyped or whatever, the important thing is that they just fight. A defeat should not be the end of the world to any of these fighters. Wilder is not a bum because he got outboxed by Fury, because he could still KO the rest of them, and he could even KO Fury in a rematch. Joshua is still a top level heavyweight even though Ruiz smashed him around the ring, because he could still beat all of them.
It's a great time for heavyweight boxing. Just ****ing fight.
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