Usyk v Düsseldorf Fury

Fury has more stamina since it was pre depression and coke. That said, 2 things still work against him. He has trouble against southpaws and his body can never be a small enough target.

 

He has to come at Usyk like he did in the first fight and hope that he can cause enough damage so Usyk cant go into that final super saiyan gear mid fight. If he boxes with him Usyk is just going to outpoint him by a round or two every time. The blueprint for Fury to beat Usyk was laid out in fight one. a truly special fighter had other plans though.

 

I would say Fury back then would be able to maintain the pace better which he set in the middle rounds of the first fight against this older, less fleet-of-foot version of Usyk, and maybe edge it on points. But bear in mind this is prime Fury vs out-of-prime and old Usyk, and even then it’s a coin flip.

However, prime Usyk at heavyweight, which I would argue was the first Joshua fight, beats any version of Fury for me, but I do think it would be close, 115-113 type fight. That version of Usyk will always do just about enough against most heavyweights in history.

I don’t care about Fury, but Fury was likely more out of his prime due to kebabs and cocaine.

 

Usyk would win, clearly and unanimously on fair cards.

People forget just how ugly Fury fought in Dusseldorf - relied on lots of clinching (which he tried against Usyk and it didn't work) and he didn't have much power on his punches back then.

Usyk just doesn't get drawn into fighting the way that Fury would've needed to be able to stink it out to a win like he did against Wlad.


I don't think any version of Fury does any better than he did in the first fight.

 

Dumbledore Fury

 

He got beat up by Ngannou and was 35. Surely any competent version of Fury from the Klitschko fight to Wilder 2 does better but still loses. We can't pretend that was the best version of Fury, by metrics of resume the best version of Fury is probably the one who scored his best win

 

Up to a point, yes... The problem is twofold though - that Fury is overrated a bit, and stylistically wouldn't really do any better.

I think there's a case that Fury peaked in Usyk 1 - it's the best I've seen him perform in many ways, despite the loss... As a combination of physical fitness, power (despite still being mediocre) and available skills/tactics/experience - I think Usyk-1 Fury beats Dusseldorf Fury, and Usyk beats them both.

 

Fury was never good on the front foot, Dusseldorf Fury outpoints 2024 Fury who was physically less agile and a tad bit slower. But I agree Usyk beats any version of Fury

 

Fury doesn’t beat Usyk under any conditions. Old Fury, young Fury, fat Fury, fit Fury, prime Fury…it makes zero difference. Usyk is just a level above.

There’s no shame in that. Usyk has a boxing IQ that is off the map. He boxes Fury’s ears off 100 times out of 100.

 

That’s an easier fight for usyk. Fury was at his best when he was more aggressive

 

It absolutely does.

 

Now that was funny

 

Why he performed so bad? Idk, Klitschko put on a career bad performance also so who knows. ‍♂️

 

I laughed my ass off reading Dusseldorf Fury. I thought the OP was being a smart ass. It just sounds hilarious to me.

 

"Dusseldorf Fury" lol. As if it's a legend.

He looked mediocre against a 38 year old Wlad.