Exactly, it was so cringe-worthy to see Wlad so cautious when he could've sold out and forced the kayo without any fear (even despite his own eggshell chin) and gotten it easily .
Vitali prime KO's him halfway trough. The last Vit we saw wins a very wide UD or stoppage via accumulation. Too much punchoutput, always on the frontfoot.
Fury plays with that stiff legged armpunching joke, and like he always does on the brink of defeat, vitali finds a way to lose on injury...Vitali is sooooo overrated here..And I dont even like Fury!
Fury would probably still be able to take away Vitali's jab, just like he did with Wlad. But unlike Wlad, Vitali won't be afraid to let his hands go. He'll force a war, back his granite and stop Fury mid-late.
Why stop with Vitali...surely we should be comparing him against Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Tyson, Lewis, Holyfield... In your opinion he probably takes all these guys to school too?
There is a reason why wlad was so cautious he couldn't get to fury and fury was awkward he was also weary of fury's power give the big man credit man
Yes a prime fury is virtually unbeatable not because so much so he excels in one area more then those guys its just he is just too awkward and so talented
Except he never forced a war in his life and fought cautiously from a distance as much as his brother did. It was Lewis that forced the war against him. Fury's angles , lateral movement and switch hitting style make Vitali look like an absolute buffoon. And Vitali isn't going to push the action because he has no clue whatever about the art of inside fighting.
Fury is awkward, yes. Fury could have (and likely would have) tagged Wlad up a bunch on the way in. Here's the problem, though - Fury never once in his life demonstrated having the kind of single-punch KO power to make Wlad that fearful of coming forward. It was all mind games. For that part, for getting into Wlad's head as his primary strategy, Fury deserves credit. If the old champion had just kept his wits about him, not psyched himself into succumbing to Fury's hypnotic suggestion, if he just held firm and told himself "Dude. This guy had never scored a single punch kayo victory over any top 40 rated heavyweight. You have been stopped a few times in the past, but that was a very long time ago, by guys with a lot more raw power than Fury, and even they all took more than a single blow or even two in order to chop you down. You can soak up whatever unbalanced back-foot counter flurries this big lug throws at you on the way in. Go and get him. Just full speed ahead, charge him down into the ropes and line him up for your trademark 1-2. Drill him enough times with that RH, no matter how much he's slapping you back with his feather-fists in the process, and he's done. You've seen enough footage of this guy to know that a) his chin is worse than yours and b) his power by HW standards is nonexistent. Don't be scared of a firefight. Just press, engage, and knock him out. This is an easy fight unless you spook yourself and start jumping at shadows and thinking you can't just go straight at him. You're old, legs slowing down, and he's got the cutie pie footwork going, utilizing outside movement - so don't try and box 12 rounds with him chasing him around the ring like a fool. Just launch yourself at him recklessly like a cannonball, the way you did when you were a young contender before you met Steward, pin him on the ropes and force a slug-fest. You have been stopped before, a few times, yes. But you have NOTHING to fear in a firefight in this particular situation. Your chin isn't that bad that you're going to get check-hooked into unconsciousness by a guy that despite being a super heavy might not even h2h knock out most of the champs today from light heavyweight. He couldn't manage to KO the aging up-jumped Cruiser USS clean (he needed the ref on his side, getting away with tons of fouls, and should've been counted out himself). If you force a brawl, you will knock him out. He was stunned by guys like freaking McDermott & Pajkic. You've got this. Just don't be a puss." - it would've been a different outcome. He chose to be one, and so Fury got to achieve his dream of becoming heavyweight champ by essentially just scaring the incumbent champ into forfeiture. He barely had to lift a finger. All that cutie pie dancing around jabbing was just icing on the cake to delude himself and his fans that he put on some ATG slick heavyweight performance. He won because Wlad didn't want to risk getting into a fight with him, even though he would have absolutely 100% scored a knockout if he did so.