Can fury have any historical relevance being in such a weak era?

More people have laughed at your god and his funny dance, as well as his funny facial expressions like at the end of the Usyk leathering.

Saying that, he can't be blamed too much. He did get battered.

 

Tony Dosh PPV 'Why am I feeling like this'
Robb 'Like what Tony'
Tony Dosh PPV 'A spineless Fanny'

 

Safin seriously needs to pull his tongue out of Tysons arse.

Hope you're being paid for these posts, sunshine.

 

If Fury beats Usyk-AJ 2 winner in 2022, his significance and the legitimacy of this HW era increases markedly.

At the moment, he's still in the historical footnote category, the man who ended the Wlad era and fought a trilogy with a dangerous but crude puncher.

 

I think Ruiz Jr is a lot better than Butterbean was. Butterbean was a 4 round novelty act. Ruiz is a couple of levels above that, I reckon.

But you're right, Joshua will never live that defeat down. He was absolutely taken apart, and more or less quit, against a short fat slob. Joshua 6'6 and 245 pounds of athletic physique, build like Hercules statue, bludgeoned to bits by the fat kid. Broken down physically and mentally, within 7 rounds, in his American debut. And this was when the UK media had convinced most of the British public that he was invincible.

 

The bitterness you harbour is genuinely worrying. You can't even muster up any degree of humour - just pure hatred, bitterness and jealousy. It makes so much sweeter.

 

Yup, Joshua was seen as the second coming of Ali, the wisdom of Africa, we were witnessing the strength of Watford street knowledge from the badman turned good who was humble and hadn't forgot the hood, nobody could derail this train of dishing out pain, "oi fatboy....." he beamed after beating Wlad, he was ready for the World, just not ready for Mr Stay Puft.

 

Shame the third fight with Wilder happened really. There was no need for it and it would have protected AJ from Usyk, and Fury AJ would have been enormous.

Now none of the fights are as big. And AJ is forced in to a rematch with an opponent he really does not want to fight if he is being honest.

 

Too funny. Fantastic post.

 

Only on this forum would you see a post tarring one of the greatest bouts in history as a "shame" that it happened, because there was "no need for it" and it would have "protected 'AJ' from Usyk". FFS.

If boxers are there to be beaten and to be found out, then why does it matter who it is against? All for the sake of a retrospectively artificial bout between which would have been dubbed the "two best of their generation"?

Absolute nonsense.

 

I agree.
I said this at the time. If people were doubting AJ could beat Usyk (and many already were, AJ fans too) how could they, in the next breath, say Fury v AJ was the decider of who the best of the era us?

The best should fight the best.
To Joshua's credit, he's tested himself enough to be found not to be the best. He could of course still turn that around, but I is even more doubtful.

Fury v Usyk makes the most sense now. If Usyk beats AJ again, Fury v Usyk is a tidy decider for the best of the best.

 

All Joshua has done to test himself was to be caught in a genuine mandatory defence, due to the WBO's ruling re: the transition from cruiserweight to heavyweight.

People on this forum seem a bit naive when it comes to mandatory defences. Members like @Brixton Bomber are desperate to believe that the board of X governing body sit around the table and evaluate all possible candidates on a meritocratic basis, without input from the champion's or the challenger's representatives, and their financial resources.

Where Usyk was a mandatory based on merit, he was also a mandatory based on his ability to make money - a perfect storm.

Opponents like Molina, for example, are clearly bought. "But he was a mandatory" cry the Joshua fanboys, as if they are still eating their dinners on their highchair. As if all concerned were not gearing up for a huge money showdown with Wladimir Klitschko. "Why does Fury need a tune-up" old Brixton will cry, at the same time. You couldn't make it up.

 

Lol pretty much every heavyweight era gets slagged off by "fans" during the midst of it happening....

- The 80s got hate (particularly Larry Holmes) coming off the back Ali.... now everyone raves about Larry.
- The 90s had Bowe throwing his belt in the bin and Lennox always got stick... only in recent years has he started to get appreciated.
- The 2000s saw the Klitschko reign and every man and his dog would tell you how boring they were "clinch jab clinch jab...".

Now we have Fury, Wilder, AJ, Usyk and people still want to moan.

Same **** different decade.