Who had the best career: Joshua, Fury, or Wilder?

Joshua has the best career
He hasn't ducked and dodged like Fury, who's able to evade outside the ring better than Floyd in the ring

 

ducking and dodged and Floyd should always be in the same sentence, but not in that context. Your boy chose his biggest named opponents by the watch and the weight.

 

Joshua and Fury aren't far apart one way or the other... Wilder isn't in the same league, and it's not even close.

Fury has the headlines - his Wlad win was a bigger deal even though it's not necessarily a much better win, and the Wilder trilogy is more memorable than anything Joshua's done, despite Wilder being an overhyped can-crushing fraud.

Joshua has the better resume, clearly, and despite fairly common suspicions around PEDs he wasn't caught with them and Fury was... Beyond that, Joshua's fought everyone of note except for a couple that ducked him.

Joshua's career is a better example to follow, despite the man himself being cringey and racist - Fury had a lot more luck.


I'd edge it towards Joshua, but they're not easy to weigh up against each other and I wouldn't put much between them.

 

I wonder who is that one poor soul who voted for Wilder, lol.

 

It is Joshua for me. He had more title defenses, fought more challengers and made more money. Yes, he had two devastating losses that Fury did not suffer but Anthony never struggled in his wins - Fury was made to work for his meal by Wallin, McDermott and even Ngannou. Fury never stepped in the ring with Ruiz or Dubois. Fury's entire career is about three men - Klistchko, Wilder and Usyk. Joshua had a story with two of these three fighters (and with identical results) plus with many more men.

 

Just as there is a "lost generation of the 1980s" (EVERY HW champion in the first half of the 80s, except Holmes), so to me Fury, AJ and Wilder look like the "lost generation of the 2010s".

 

Quite - it's easy to forget the luck that Fury's had.

Joshua lost against Ruiz, Usyk and Dubois... But with the exception of Wlad failing to finish him, there weren't really any other close escapes.

Fury on the other hand has needed luck to avoid having even more devastating losses... If he'd been anyone else he'd have been stopped against Wallin, for example, as well as in the first Wilder fight (setting aside the relevance or not of how unfit he was).

 

"but his career was infinitely more stage managed"

If anything it's closer to the total opposite.

Joshua always fought with A-side and usually home advantage (barring Ruiz 1, where he was A-side but fighting in the opponents' backyard for once). He was always the favourite barring Usyk 2. Dangerous opponents (Ortiz, Wilder, Fury) were avoided/aged out.

Four of Fury's biggest fights were as the B-side and on the road (Wlad, Wilder x3). He was the underdog in three of those fights, plus the first Chisora fight, plus the 2nd Usyk fight, so five times in his career. He also signed to fight Haye coming off the Cunningham war, with Haye withdrawing a week out. For much of his career there was far less reward for the risk of fighting Fury than Joshua.

Fury's had the more risky career, Joshua has twice as many losses primarily because he's more beatable. An even moderately in shape Fury would never lose to Ruiz for instance.

 

Fury by a substantial margin imo.

 

"but Anthony never struggled in his wins"

He did (41 Wlad was a life and death) but this is far from a badge of honour: every time Joshua faced real adversity after this he folded.

 

Fury, obviously.
Dethroned the dominant champion. (neither AJ or Wilder did)
He didn't duck Wilder, in fact fought him three times during the period he was KO'ing everyone. (AJ clearly ducked Wilder and still is)
He came close to being unified in the first Usyk fight. (Neither AJ or Wilder did, partly because they didn't fight each other)
Never been KO'd. (AJ KO'd twice, Wilder KO'd three times)

Offered AJ the fight twice at least. Didn't suit them. Now they want it with Fury at his oldest and weakest and AJ thin on big fight options. If Fury doesn't come back they simply overplayed their hand.

 

Sometimes I'm in the minority, but here agree w/the main view.

It's between Fury & AJ. You can see how I voted

 

Ortiz got popped for PEDs and lost his mandatory status. If he didn't juice, he would have fought AJ after Takam. Ortiz also declined to fight AJ in 2019. Wilder admitted himself he ducked AJ and AJ signed to fight Fury in 2021.

Wouldas don't exist. After Usyk beat AJ Fury fanboys said Belly would have beaten the middleweight with ease. We all know how that ended.

Funny you're still lying on the subject while AJ signed the contract to fight Fury in 2021. Reality is to harsh for you that you have to live in the dream world?