He's right about having to look good if he wins though.
A poor/shaky performance and the knives will be out.
Fury's also put himself under pressure, running around talking a lot of smack, calling himself the best boxer in the world, etc. It's tongue in cheek mostly, but still. If he doesn't deliver a good performance and convincingly defeats Steve, he could end up being the next hw laughing stock.
What does it say other than he beat an old, shaky chinned cruiserweight with little power?
I'm not saying Cunningham doesn't have skills but this fights a mismatch of epic proportions.
Well Cunningham is a former cruiserweight champion, and in all honestly he beat Adamek pretty handily, who most people classed as a top 5 guy at heavyweight.
Well Cunningham is a former cruiserweight champion, and in all honestly he beat Adamek pretty handily, who most people classed as a top 5 guy at heavyweight.
It certainly wouldn't be a bad win
I've always felt Adamek's HW run was rather overrated and hes clearly well on the slide. Its unofficial but a good win based on name value.
I still feel Cunningham's a top 5, top 10 worse case scenario cruiserweight. I'm a bit disappointed in Furys opposition at this stage tbh
I hope hes going to step it up soon
Wouldn't mind if he fought Thompson after but these old small HWs & cruiserweights have to stop, hes beyond that. Hes better than that.
I've always felt Adamek's HW run was rather overrated and hes clearly well on the slide. Its unofficial but a good win based on name value.
I still feel Cunningham's a top 5, top 10 worse case scenario cruiserweight. I'm a bit disappointed in Furys opposition at this stage tbh
I hope hes going to step it up soon
Wouldn't mind if he fought Thompson after but these old small HWs & cruiserweights have to stop, hes beyond that. Hes better than that.
Were he older I would agree.
But he is only 24, very, very young for a super-heavyweight, and prior to the Rogan fight he had awful training and preperation, and was basically winning fights on size and toughness.
I don't want to have to bust out my Klitschko/Lewis comparrisons again but Fury is fighting better opposition for his age/experiance than they were and he's doing it WITHOUT a stellar amateur career like those guys had.
Fury's also put himself under pressure, running around talking a lot of smack, calling himself the best boxer in the world, etc. It's tongue in cheek mostly, but still. If he doesn't deliver a good performance and convincingly defeats Steve, he could end up being the next hw laughing stock.
Very true but I think the talking is a good thing, even if he pisses me off with some of it, it gets people talking.
Now he just has to continue to win and back up his talk.
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