fury is a big boy at 273 pounds. i just rewatched the cunningham fight earlier where he was 256 pounds i believe. his body has a lot of muscle on it now compared to then with some protective fat over the top - if he had a hometown ref he could reign undefeated for 10 years just by leaning on his opponent, putting them in headlocks and working the body in the clinch (as well as landing some good uppercuts, and we're not even talking about elbows, headbutts, lowblows etc). he can keep range with the jab quite good and his straight right has some power behind it when he plants his feet.
wilder was thrown around like a ragdoll in that fight, im not sure what the plan will be in a trilogy other than landing a 'lucky' shot that puts fury down....
i really think wilder should take his step aside money and live to fight another day. if fury was smart he'd demand the trilogy happen in the uk with a ref that allows excessive clinching and holding. you guys remember ward/kovalev 1? imagine fury holding and leaning on wilder for 20-30 seconds at a time, multiple times a round? it would be an early ko win for fury.
Ive always thought that Fury knuckled down after this fight and made many improvements to his game.
So for like months before the fight I picked Fury, was very confident. Very well assured, then a few weeks after the presser or non-presser happened and I heard Fury talking about stopping Wilder I proceeded to changed my pick for the fight to Wilder winning. I thought it was crazy the tactics Fury was promising to employ. So am glad he proved myself and millions others wrong.
Wilder's confidence had to be boosted so he can be caught off-guard.
In the 12th, after getting knocked down, he started beating the brakes off Wilder.
It kinda felt like "***gyt, we agreed to only go half speed!".
Then he got fooked over by the judges. So it was clear - as long as he didn't go off the tracks - Kunta Kinte was gonna become lion food.
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