Do you consider Fury toying with 10 year unbeaten Klitschko one of the best achievements in boxing ?

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by MarkusFlorez99, Mar 4, 2021.


Is this a top 10 achievement ?

Poll closed Apr 8, 2022.
  1. Yes

    12 vote(s)
    24.5%
  2. No

    37 vote(s)
    75.5%
  1. Salty Dog

    Salty Dog globalize the Buc-ees revolution Full Member

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    Why would anybody bump this? Surely both men are ashamed of this ... contest. Can't really call it a fight. Markus, do you somehow calculate that this thread advances your "new **** is better than old ****" agenda? Please explain.
     
  2. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    I could respond to this but I'm afraid your join date precludes me from doing so.

    You could try signing in under your own handle, if you have one, and then we can take a gander at your predictions for the fights and indeed how Usyk would fare up at HW
     
  3. PrimoGT

    PrimoGT Active Member Full Member

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    Usyk being better than people expected doesn't mean Fury should be over-rated. Usyk's achievements stand on their own merit. We don't need to pretend Fury is good post-Ngannou though. Even if I thought Usyk would lose every pro fight he's ever had, that doesn't mean Fury's not bum-level for struggling with Ngannou, it doesn't change the fact that Fury's looked washed-up since 2021.

    Usyk's wins over Dubois are far better than his wins over the Belly.
     
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  4. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Again, I'm afraid your join date precludes me from responding to that and me from taking you remotely seriously. I remember when you signed up under this handle, literally the day after Usyk beat the aforementioned Dubois in the rematch, trying to discredit Usyk from the get-go
     
  5. MagnificentMatt

    MagnificentMatt Beterbiev literally kills Plant and McCumby 2v1 Full Member

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    This fight was miserable to watch. It was barely a fight, Fury did slightly more than Wlad - who did almost nothing.. Im not sure if Fury had Wlad gun-shy or if he was just having a bad night… Even if it was the former, Fury struggled to capitalize on it.

    It is a big achievement in that it was a decent upset though. At the time, most people knew Fury as the guy who uppercutted himself in the face.
     
  6. SouthpawsRule

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    I dont know what the issue is with you EE fans but no, running around the ring and out-landing your opponent with jabs that do 0 damage does not score more than controlling the pace, the ring and landing flush power shots. You guys do the same with GGG and Canelo II. This isn’t amateurs, this is professionals, if you land 10 jabs I walk through and I land 6 power shots that rock your head back and have you backing up I win the round. That simple.

    And lol at the KO being an accident, I doubt you actually watched the match but just go look at the KO, Canelo starts dodging almost before Saunders throws and his uppercut literally intercepts Sanders’ head as it is moving towards Canelo. Canelo timed that shot perfectly, walked him right onto it. Saunders gets caught with that 10/10.
     
  7. CST80

    CST80 De Omnibus Dubitandum Staff Member

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    Mother****er, I did the RBR for it and scored the entire card. So of course I ****ing watched it. I've been watching Billy Joe Saunders for the last 15 years, I did this one of this site's first threads on him. This website doesn't just choose anyone to be a moderator. What the **** does being an EE fan have to do with this match? Neither one of them is Eastern European. Not sure why Crawford and Mayweather can run around the ring and land jabs and get credit for it but Saunders isn't supposed to? Why the double standard? Canelo was being outworked and almost every round, with Sanders landing the far cleaner shots. Therefore he wins the rounds. GGG was out jabbing him and landing the better power shots, he was rolling with or blocking most of Canelo's. Stop letting Canelo wow you, with haymakers that don't land. Strange how people stopped giving him credit for those against Crawford, but gives them credit for them against everybody else. Seems quite selective doesn't it?
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