Joe Frazier Versus Tyson Fury

Fury hasn't got the power like Foreman to keep putting Joe down, this is going to be the hardest fights of Tyson s life.
If you couldn't stop Frazier early then he'd just keep on coming, throwing that killer hook to the body of Fury.

 

The more mobile 248 pound Fury that fought Wlad would get walked down, the 274 pound Wilder 2 version of Fury would manhandle Joe and batter him with that uppercut.

 

248 lbs Fury is still about 45 lbs heavier than a prime Frazier.

 

Fury learned during the Cunningham fight and demonstrated later against Wilder that he knew how to use his size to bully his smaller opponents into submission, mauling and punching, leaning into, plastering to the ropes. And when he sat down on punches he could crank those hooks. I think Frazier just falls apart after too much of that.

 

I’m inclined to favoring Fury because of the styles and the colossal size advantage. But I do it hesitantly because Fury finds ways to have problems with people that he’s favored to beat.

 

I think one thing the pro-Fury crowd fail to factor in is how awkward it's going to be for the bigger man to engage Frazier. The same applies to fantasy bouts with the likes of Marciano who was specfically drilled to fight smaller. There is no evidence to suggest that Fury easily clinches Frazier. That he's bigger is a weak answer.

 

Frazier would win

 

If Cunningham could drop him then Frazier keeps him down. Fury has nothing to keep Joe off him except grabbing on and holding.

 

yin and yang

 

I don't know. Fury isn't ab ATG puncher, but he is a 280 pound heavyweight boxer that you wouldn't want to take too many shots from. I don't know if Frazier would want to take uppercuts from Fury all night long.

 

Mathis was also 40 pounds heavier yet couldn’t put a dent in Frazier with some hard shots he landed, Fury has pretty average power for a man that size so I frankly doubt he hit substantially harder than Mathis when he weighed in his 240s. The Peter/Davidson versions of Fury also liked to slap more than the Stewart version who planted his feet more and developed better clinch skills. I don’t think he had the uppercut he currently has back in the day either.

 

That and more has been overcome.

 

Mathis has no power

 

People used to say the exact same thing about Fury before the Wilder rematch, fact is that Mathis had a 74% knockout percentage by the time of the first Frazier fight so he clearly had SOME power. That’s on top of the fact that such a huge size disadvantage adds pop then Frazier didn’t feel much of.