This content is protected "Jones and Lucas, look at their sweat, they're totally different guys" This content is protected "what do you mean?" This content is protected "sometimes sweat falls pitifully and sometimes it just falls" This content is protected @18:45 "errr that boy Tyson Fury you gonna have to bring everything you got to beat him, i'm gonna be honest i can't see Joshau beating him" "That Tyson fury man wew Fury i mean how do you get that name"
Quite a coup for IFL to get George. Some interesting snippets in there. Interesting he says 6'1 220 lbs is the perfect HW. Good on the excuses as well.
The only handful of American boxers who had Tyson winning the rematch were unbiased and tended to put forward a good boxing case for both fighters. Have to remember most of these Americans have never even seen Fury box before....they've just seen Wilder KO highlight reels. Teddy Atlas said some ridiculous stuff that shows he had never watched Furys fights. Many of the pundits were saying Fury is too heavy at 270 but anyone who knows Fury and his career knows he can carry this weight without breaking a sweat. To me the other guys who picked Wilder were just rooting for "their guy" or rooting for him on an emotional basis. Which is fine, it's sport. Sooner than later everyone will understand that not a man born from their mother can defeat Tyson Fury. Hell even I wasn't a believer in till 2015. then I re-watched his career fights and could see the magic with a new eye.
George's definitely on the right crack. The bodybuilder's career with be over in the next couple of years, lol.
I can see chances for both men. I lean slightly towards Fury at the moment, but Joshua's a much more well rounded fighter now than he was pre-Ruiz. Fury as he's got older and heavier has lost a lot of that speed and crispness he had before his layoff. Joshua meanwhile has become looser and snappier with his shots and really developed his timing, shot selection and overall fluidity. Of course Fury's still got that next-gen boxing brain and a mindset that refuses to believe he can be beaten but Joshua seems a lot more comfortable in the ring than he did when he was a walking juiced up tank with concrete feet. Fury can outbox Joshua and maybe even stop him late, but it'd be very risky to employ the same tactic as he did against Wilder. There's a chance he could catch Joshua with something and finish him off, but an equally large chance he gets caught on the counter with a big detonator uppercut or counter right and ends up being the one wobbling all over the place and hanging on for dear life. Joshua, unlike Wilder, can fight going backwards or forwards, and doesn't rely on a single shot to be effective. Fury will know this and will tailor his gameplan accordingly.
I predicted Fury by decision in the first fight but get robbed by the judges (to be fair it was only 1 judge) and to beat him post to post in the rematch Everyone laughed at Fury claiming he wanted to KO him. meanwhile: [url]https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/fury-will-stop-wilder-in-the-rematch.632061/[/url] Bit about Wilder being mentally beaten is important. He was willing to take his beating like a man though.
I don't know anyone who thought Wilder was going to win the rematch. Hoping yes, rooting for it yes, betting on it no
This. Wilder was way too high on that 12th round knockdown from the first fight. I was pretty obvious that Wilder was going to go into the rematch with the same strategy that didn’t work the first time, so I wasn’t really shocked when Fury neutralized Wilder and pretty much toyed within him. Wilder made it too easy for Fury.
Wilder was the slight betting favourite so there must have been a lot of people thinking he would win and were putting their money where their mouths were. I had seen signs in Wilder's fight since the 'draw' with Fury where he was becoming better at setting his opponent up for the right hand. I also thought that the punches that floored Fury in the first fight didn't land cleanly and I felt that was an ominous sign. In the rematch, I thought Fury would build up a big points lead but get nailed in the later rounds. I'm glad that I got it wrong.
Has enough happened to show that Joshua is a much more well rounded fighter? If you're using Joshua pre-Ruiz for a comparison then AJ has only had two fights since then and we all know what happened in the first fight. In the second one he boxed cautiously against an even chubbier than normal Ruiz who hadn't prepared himself properly.
