Has Fury shown enough to be in the conversation of the next potential great heavyweight?

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  1. Boon

    Boon Boxing Addict banned Full Member

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    Hold your horses, Fury is nowhere near being an ATG yet. He could possibly do it if he stays active and racks up a number of great wins. Let's not look to far into the future just yet.
     
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  2. Quina74

    Quina74 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Fury's best wins are against a 39 trigger shy Wlad and a one dimensional right hander in Wilder. These are good wins, but not enough to be labelled as great. Needs to beat a few prime fighters who can actually box then we'll see..
     
    Quina74, Jun 22, 2019
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  3. thesmokingm

    thesmokingm Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    After destroying the fearsome Tom Schwarz, Fury is slated to be the next ATG of ATGs!
     
    thesmokingm, Jun 22, 2019
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  4. Boxing Gloves

    Boxing Gloves Boxing Addict Full Member

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    If he can win a belt and get some solid defences as well as legacy wins vs Wilder and the Ruiz - Joshua II winner then that will be a start.
     
    Boxing Gloves, Jun 22, 2019
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  5. ButeTheBeast

    ButeTheBeast Well-Known Member Full Member

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    He's the best heavyweight of this era.

    He can't be outboxed and he can't be knocked out, his chin and recovery powers are ridiculous.
     
    ButeTheBeast, Jun 22, 2019
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  6. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    If we're going by the eye test then Fury is the best HW to come along in donkeys years. :cool1:
     
    dinovelvet, Jun 22, 2019
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  7. Serge

    Serge Ginger Dracula Staff Member

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    Beat the undisputed #1 HW in the world and three-belt unified king and one of the greats Wlad in Germany where everything was stacked against him albeit past prime Wlad

    Beat the #2 HW in the world Bum Squad in the USA where everything was stacked against him when he was an inactive suicidal drug-ravaged muscle atrophied 40% shell of himself

    Fury is slickest HW of all time and the greatest defensive HW of all time despite him looking like a gypsy giraffe with a big wobbly belly and huge love handles

    A 6'9, 260lb + man who moves like and is as nimble on his feet as a lightweight? Inconceivable.

    A 40% drug-ravaged suicidal inactive muscle atrophied shell of himself beating the #2 HW in the world in their backyard after not having fought anyone with a pulse in three years and having abused the hell out of their body for 2.5 of those years with industrial amounts of coke, booze and junk food? Inconceivable

    The Gypsy King isn't just the slickest and best defensive HW of all times his powers of prophecy are next level too

    An 18 y/o Fury

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    ''2013 British champion'' - check. He achieved that in 2011

    ''2014 European champion'' - check. Won the Euro title that year.

    ''2016 Undisputed HW champion'' - became the three-belt unified champion in 2015 and would've won the WBC by 2016 had the powers that be not framed an innocent gypsy man for a crime he did not do

    Well Fury just added the final piece of the jigsaw (the WBC belt which everyone knows belongs to him) in 2018 thus fulfilling the prophecy that he would hold all the belts and had it not been for the enforced 3 years out by the gypsy hater mafia powers that be the prophecy would've come to pass when he predicted it would

    If The Gypsy King had never discovered chocolate, cakes, beer and cocaine he would've been the greatest fighter of all time, let alone the greatest HW, and I mean fighter of any code of combat and that's a FACT, btw.

    Ride on beautiful gypsy

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    Serge, Jun 22, 2019
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  8. bandeedo

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    lol, thats what passes for cleverness in the fanatics world.
     
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  9. covetousjuice

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    I think he probably has the skills and abilities for it.

    He definitely doesn't have the resume for it -- but he still has time to change that.

    I worry he lacks the discipline unfortunately. I suspect he'll manage to squander his remaining years rather than live up to his potential.
     
    covetousjuice, Jun 22, 2019
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  10. madballster

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    If Fury had his head screwed on the right way, some discipline, some grit, above average IQ he could be a great. I have my doubts he is able to perform any sort of long-term thinking. It almost feels what he has in banter and general boxing skills he lacks in the discipline and mental strength department.

    "TYRELL: The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long, and you have burned so very very brightly."
    --Bladerunner
     
    madballster, Jun 22, 2019
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  11. LordSouness

    LordSouness Boxing Addict Full Member

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    I think he's the best in the division. He could easily be a great, could already have been one, but he has one legitimate win on his record against a top 10 HW, two at most, if you considered the second Chisora he fought at fringe world level.
     
    LordSouness, Jun 22, 2019
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  12. kostya by ko

    kostya by ko Boxing Addict Full Member

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    Unify the 4 main belts would be a good start. A few defenses after that would increase his stock.

    He's a potential. But needs more runs on the board. It's like saying Leicester City are an all time great English team (in 2016) or The Knack are one of the greatest bands ever (in 1979 after My Sharona came out).
     
    kostya by ko, Jun 22, 2019
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