An overhand right from a significantly shorter opponent has been shown to be able to catch him off guard.
His massive balls Fury is easily the most complete heavyweight of this era and his skillset on a man of his size has never been seen before he is pretty much unbeatable right now So his PERCEIVED weaknesses are irrelevant Fury's biggest weakness will always be his complacency against men who can't lace his shoelaces & he can beat with his hands tied behind his back.
Two weakness: Legitimate power. Wilder fight not withstanding, he has average power at best . Mental make-up: He has a hard time keeping his mind and mood straight. He should of kept active after the Wlad fight.
He's the wrong side of 30, which absolutely does matter, the evasiveness he showed in the first wilder and especially the wlad fight will soon be a thing of the past if they aren't already.
good post that’s why he is evolving into a kronk knockout artist under sugar hill the Fury of his next few years is going to be a great fighter indeed
Furys a great fighter tbh. Doesnt really have that many weaknesses. Or i think the opposition lack the real boxing skills to unearth his weaknesses anyway. He,s pretty much fought using his reach and movement. The opposition have no real answer for it because very few of them can fight on the move or put there punches together or counter punch effectively. Go back and watch guys fight in the 80,s and even the 90,s. Most of them could fight on the move. Could punch going forward or backwards. Could counter punch effectively and put there punches together well. Not just the champions either. Nowadays very few if any have that ability. Its not that fury doesnt have weaknesses...its just that the guys out there dont have the ability to show his weaknesses. Similar to wlad to an extent. Took fury showing up to show his weaknesses. Furys looks unbeatable atm and hes a very good fighter...i,d still fancy guys from the 80,s 90,s to beat him tho. Not even just the champions either.
1. Suspect glass jaw - dropped by Cunningham, Pjakic and Wilder x 2. Rocked by Flirtha, Wallin and Chisora. 2. Lack of power 3. Defensively not as good and his reflexes seem a lot slower compared to his peformances prior to his retirement, PED use, food, booze and coke binge. 4. Can be beaten on inside.
Fury really is an excellent all round package. I've watched him since the amateurs when I saw him as a teenager give a good account of himself against David Price. Fury's weak points are not all that weak. He doesn't carry devastating power but he can hurt. He can get dropped but he always gets up. As far as southpaws are concerned, we haven't seen it yet but he can negate this by boxing southpaw himself. If I were to focus on 1 thing it would be his reliance on his, admittedly, brilliant reflexes. Firstly, as he ages they are not going to get any quicker. Secondly, if you can feint him before he feints you, you can put him where he doesn't want to be. Michael Hunter has the skill to do this but not the size or power to exploit it. Usyk is certainly talked about but we don't know enough about how he will handle really big men yet. Any man is beatable and Fury is no exception. I just don't see a contender out there right now who I see doing it.
He does not have many weaknesses besides being a big, fat, wet, smelly, hairy, pissing, bleeding, ovulating, queefing, yeast infested minge that hits like an 80 year old broad.
I feel like he could keep his hands up a little more while defending, might be overconfident with his slipping and dipping. Maybe his way is more effective, what do I know, but Wilder did catch him again in the rematch while moving back with his hands down, what's the harm putting a mitt up there. He's also been nailed a few times with the dipping/ducking with hands down move (Wlad and Wilder both eventually caught him). The pulling his pants up/blowing nose routine might cost him one day if somebody times that. The showboating is another area that could cost him, though he tends to do it at range.
Strengths can be weaknesses, wrinkles which fox one guy could inadvertently offer a key to victory to another. *Some* of his feints can be too lazy or obvious, exploitable to a fighter with good reading comprehension. For example, his lead right off a left shoulder feint can be telegraphed, Wallin read and anticipated it with a clever step in behind a southpaw power jab to the chest, which rocked him back on his heels and made him lose real estate. (Fury can cross his feet when he attempts that, too, giving up distance as well as exacerbating the effect of a counter.) His stutter-step jab, also, I noticed Wilder adapt to it with a pivot and hook that put him briefly off balance and drew a momentary rueful look. It's a matter of who can exploit these things enough. Trouble is, a lot of these moments happen in the early rounds, Fury can go to other things if he sees that one thing isn't working, so it requires someone to be able to go adjustment for adjustment with him or else make him pay massively/concussively with one canny maneuver. Regarding his punching technique, he may never be a big banger, but he would've gotten a lot more out of his punch if he'd found the right coach to address it sooner, has had a discontinuous tendency to throw his right as a vertical punch in the past – though, Kronk is now working on tightening that up without compromising his ability to bring it back on guard quickly (with technical fine-tuning like this in mind, I was keen for him to hook up with Steward full-time prior to Peter taking over, but Tyson's domestic situation precluded it). That's the size of it, a guy has to be able to capitalize on them in a consistently conspicuous way and make them matter enough. Your point regarding his reflexes is tempered by the fact that Fury does have good conventional defensive grounding to call on, also. He likes to showcase his reflexes, but he can switch to fundamentals where necessary.