Best Conditioned HW of All-Time?

Usyk
Prime Tyson

 

Marciano
Louis
Ali (60's version)
Frazier
Usyk
Norton

 

Usyk
Prime Tyson Fury

 

In no particular order, Jeffries, Norton, Ali (especially the 1960s, pre-banned version), Marciano, Holyfield (especially when he was “Evan Fields”), Norton, Frazier, Jack Johnson, and Joe Louis. I’m sure there are many others I am missing.

 

Marciano

 

The Klitchko's always looked in great condition.

 

Holyfield is the last fighter to have fought 15 rounds.

 

Frazier, he walked through everything the greatest heavyweight of all time threw at him for 15 rounds and won.

 

Marciano, Frazier, Usyk, Jeffries, Johnson

 

See, if you hadn't said that, I would've assumed you were talking about Marvis.

 

Those are basically all my thoughts on every topic though, really.

 

You obviously did see wlad fight Brewster. Dude collapsed from exhaustion.l

 

Usyk's training regime tells you a lot, he literally does 15x5 minute rounds (something crazy like that) with like 30/45 second rests. Each time Uysk finishes a fight on points he seems like he can do a few more rounds pretty comfortably, his engine is ridiculous and it is one of the reasons why Fury completely faltered in the second half of both of their fights.

Have to give a special mention to Joe Frazier. Threw bombs constantly for 15 rounds.

 

These old guys aren't real HW's by today's standards so it's unfair to compare them. They're often LHW's and Cruisers until they get fat. Smaller fighters have better engines in general it's just a physical reality of not needing to supply a huge body.

So if we're talking 'modern HW' fighters and talking about endurance whether natural or due to fitness conditioning, it's going to be Fury and Usyk, who I would say clearly have the best stamina. Usyk was a cruiser but a big one and bigger than most of these old HW's.

Fury is bigger than Usyk and with similar stamina so I would say he has the best natural endurance of any HW ever, especially when you consider he's always fat.

It's likely no coincidence they both aren't big power punchers either as it's often one of the other. That's another reason why 'Sugar Hill' clearly has zero understanding of basic things in physical/athletic performance. It was obvious Fury was an endurance athlete from early days and trying to turn him into a KO artist was never going to work properly. Notice no idiot ever tried to turn Usyk into one, but just improved his strengths.