Fury will not acknowledge his defeats

He also called Wilder a sore loser after fights 2 and 3 when he lost ironically.

 

He tries to push the narrative that he was robbed so the history remembers these decisions as controversial. Good thing that it only works on Fury fanboys.

 

yeah he knocked himself out. or nearly did.

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He lost more rounds in the eyes of more people than those who thought he didn't, so ya..

 

But could be have changed that? Or was it an almost inevitable consequence of the complex and slightly crazy mentality that he had - and would he have been as good a fighter without that?

It feels a bit like an excuse to me, TBH mate.

 

Title lineage is Fury/Francis/AJ/Dubois lol.

If he doesn't want to acknowledge his losses we don't have to acknowledge his wins!

 

Because he spent his whole life coping in his mind that he was too big and too skilled and a new breed of heavyweight then he was confronted with the unthinkable reality that his size was overrated and his skills weren't as great as he thought they were.

 

His size is not overrated nor were his skills for his size given nobody in history of that stature has been able to do what Fury could in terms of stamina, footspeed & body/head movement and I doubt we'll see it again, still nobody has come remotely close...and he was a typical plodding giant through his debut quickly maturing and becoming that titan.

Fury from the outset had discipline issues due to his bipolar disorder. His entire career he struggled to get good sparring and plenty of men avoided him leaving him extremely frustrated. In his words If I can beat these people on half mass not training or eating properly what will happen when I do? He never lived an athlete lifestyle but he beat every man there was and all the men he didn't face he would have probably battered also. Boxing is a cruel sport even if you are active and want to be active an injury can be just around the corner which happened to Fury twice. He had a child in hospital critically ill, died at birth weeks before fighting Wilder the third time and he was in dire shape for that winning on NOTHING but guts and heart. His wife had a miscarriage before 2 of his big fights which she kept to herself which Fury cottoned onto and it does have an effect. His uncle died on the evening after the weigh in for one bout. It's never easy going. Then add his bipolar and depression issues it's one big stinker...but on his night Fury was a semen demon, totally formidable and nobody will deny that. The real nail in his coffin were his elbows giving out after his 2020 Wilder bout but he still eeked some life out and I'm pretty sure he will fight again but he is very aware of his limitations. I'm impressed that Usyk's shoulders havn't given out and that didn't crop up as a major issue through his HW stint.

In 1 year from now if a Kabayel or Dubious holds a belt and Fury can get in the picture he will be in there and he will do a boxing job on them and take them belts....That's the calibre of fighter Fury is and same for Usyk.

 

Most top fighters can’t accept defeat, it’s part of the delusional self belief required to be the best.

Mentality is half the battle and once a fighter accepts he was/can be beat, he loses that self belief.

its viewers that put this expectation on fighters to accept defeat, but to a fighter, accepting defeat is like killing themselves. They can no longer be who they were.

 

Sure, but it's that combination of blasé and crazy that makes him what he is - turn him into a dedicated, focused and serious fighter and you might just end up with a "big, stiff idiot"?

 

AJ has always been humble to some degree, as he clearly had doubts about his capabilities. There is a reason why he is so jacked, and hyper focused on physical performance. The man pushes himself to his limit to find success. Meanwhile Fury arrogantly did the opposite, believing that his talent would pull him through no matter what.

And in the end, Usyk beat both of them.

 

Fury lost both fights to Usyk even before the fight when he couldn't get into Usyk's head, I hope Fury will pull himself together, even in retirement...

 

Boxers today don't fight enough, we all know it. When you have only 25 to 30 bouts your promoter can find you enough lesser guys to pad your resume. 75-80 fights? You are likely to lose a few.

I don't get the mania of having a zero in the loss column. All the greats lost fights because they fought other greats. You fight Chisora three times and other lower skilled guys and you won't lose but you'll be going nuts if you do lose.