Must be one of the most underated stoppages in boxing, everyone who knows a thing about boxing knows steve has an iron jaw. And great speed and skills, david haye shamefully ducked cunningham in his cruiserweight days. He almost paralysed steve with a body shot and then mauled the super fit military trained steve like a rag doll, he then unleashed a thudding bone crushing right hook that put steve down for the count. Steve even brushed off some of amir mansours best shots and boxed him to a decision in a great fight. Mansour is considered one of the hardest hitters in the he division. I doubt glaskov will be able to hurt cunningham, nevermind stop him like Too Fast Fury did.
Who did the 42 year old Mansour stop to be considered the hardest hitter in the division? Fury stopped a guy coming off a loss, that's great. I do admit that Cunningham is a solid opponent, but most underrated stoppages in boxing? LOL please, you know I'm one of Fury's biggest fans, but stop that nonsense.
It was a very ugly KO, im a fan of Fury but he got away with a dirty as hell forearm pushing Cunninghams head back before he landed the shot that put him out.
Cunningham wasn't that highly rated/hadn't done much as a HW and was a lot smaller than Fury. Stopping him isn't all that impressive
Cunningham is a very tough man from the ghetto streets of Philly with a military background, but fury bullied him like a child.
Underrated?? Fury benefited from grossly biased officiating that night. He was given a long count when Cunningham dropped him, and only stopped Cunningham on a bevy of rabbit punches to which a blind eye was turned.
Nothing wrong with the stoppage, fury has a point taken off for a headbutt and I think from holding, but it was actually cunningham who was the one clinching. Fury was punished for some dirty tactics but no worse than Holyfield or hopkins have done. And cunningham has never been stopped before and has been looking good at hw.
Dude, cunningham has never been stopped. The body shot really hurt steve and then the right hook to the JAW finished it. Cunningham is one of the best american heavyweights. Time will tell, it's not easy to stop a guy like steve. I guess you can't hit people in the stomach anymore either.atsch
It's pretty easy to stop anybody when you outweigh them by 3.5 stone and whack them illegally upside the head several times with nary a word from the official.
Stiff-arms, headlocks, shoves, headbutts. Fury was a disgrace that night. Eddie Cotton was even worse.
Show me where fury rabbit punched cunningham. I'll admit he did use his head quite obviously in front on the ref, but he didn't clinch half As much as wlad. The stoppage was a very good one, and cunningham was still a heavyweight. Size means nothing if your over 200lb, fury just got hold of him, if size mattered Valuev would of ko'd haye and so would have klitchko. Steve is a very fast and skilled cruiserweight that got caught by a giant with quick feet and good inside fighting.
I would say the Mansour KO(it should have been) of Steve was by far more impressive, even though Smoger gave Steve a 20 count and let him walk it off. Tyson laid on and basically mugged Cunningham that was a very ugly fight and pretty close to an illegal KO and I don't him very much credit for it.