Rate Fury's win over Klitschko

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Very good win but not an ATG win.

 

You crack demon

Name a better HW win in the last 23 years?

Maybe Lennox Holyfield 1 1999 or TKO 6 2003

 

It looks bad to people now because they know the outcome and the fight is boring to watch back except from a technical viewpoint.
Watching it live was different.
99% thought Fury was getting KO'd at some point, Fury was a MASSIVE underdog, so it was dramatic.
Nobody had ever outboxed Wlad and as Fury was beginning to notch up rounds, the drama was building.
Banks was starting to get worried in the corner.
The upset was brewing.
Still, most thought it was a matter of time before Wlad landed.
Then he did land and Fury didn't fall over.
Fury kept up his movement and boxing and got through another big RH on the side of the head in the final round.
Fury won against the dominant champ, away, against all odds.
It is a very impressive win when you consider all the factors and how dangerous Wlad was.
But it wasn't a flashy win, highlight reel win, truly dominating win in terms of destroying the opponent, and Wlad was post prime.
Still, nobody had beaten Wlad for years and nobody else could have pulled that off at the time.
And he's probably the only fighter not to have been bashed up by Wlad outside of Sanders. Everyone else, even if they won, was badly hurt.

 

Prime Wlad would have been a different story.!!!

 

Wlad was 39 and did not look great in the Jennings bout the previous fight. Still most expected him to win, myself included. The fight was boring and Fury just edged the rounds. He showed incredible stamina for a big man and a great disruptive game plan. On a scale of 1-10. It’s a solid 8. Maybe even 9.

 

Usyk over Joshua arguably

 

One of the worst boxing matches in decades. Surely the worst HW title bout, which is saying something as Wlad had a couple clunkers on his record already.

 

Shitist fight I have ever seen.

 

It was 'ok'. As we all know Klitschko was in a bad space mentally and his preparation and approach had not been what it should have been. He showed up tentative and fought a timid fight. Fury was not much better and they both spent most of the boring 'fight' doing nothing. It was by no means a dominant win or a decisive win. Fury demonstrated this by falling to pieces when faced with a fired up Wlad for the rematch and retired himself from boxing rather than go through with it. Incidentally he should no longer be considered lineal for this stunt.

 

Messy but effective.

The thing I remember the most is Wlad's very obvious headbutt in R11 or 12 and you hear Fury say "Come on ref?"

 

Boring fight, massively important historically.

 

It was a draw.

 

You're right about how it felt, and then the AJ fight seemed to support it's quality...

...but what if AJ is really just a guy who went 1-1 with Andy Ruiz?

There was a guy who used to post here who always said he owed Ruiz a trilogy and I thought it was laughable at the time but I'm kinda there now. We wrote off that first loss, but a lot of AJ's wins aren't aging well at all.