Weak resume Robot one dimensional Used to pushing over and clinching smaller men to death (Literally pushed and wrestled Povetkin to the canvas 2 TIMES in round 7, he tried it against AJ but the bodybuilder was too strong for him) Didn't know how to fight inside (lol) Useless. No wonder Fury went into a depression after that fight. It wasn't even a fight the supposed best champion of a generation couldn't and didn't even want to put up a fight. And his response to that loss was utter butthurt & denial. He still hasn't got over that loss TO THIS DAY. His in-ability to finish AJ in round 6 is the 8th wonder of the world. Was funny watching that stiff trying to land telegraphed leaping left hooks 3 times in a row and even try to push AJ over like he is used to doing with small men. The man who bullies in a clinch was getting bullied. Emmanuel Steward built that robot but knew he was fatally flawed. The moment a 2 year novice in Fury walked into camp and destroyed him in a sauna Emmanuel new time was running out.
By the time his reign was done, he had controlled the heavyweight division for almost 8% of its entire existence under Marquis de Queensbury rules.
Yet fell apart the moment he got a challenge from another super-heavyweight who could counteract his robotic ways.
I seem to remember a decade wherein he was very active, wherein he fought top-notch opponents, and wherein he barely lost a round. I do not seem to remember another heavyweight in the history of the sport who held a prime for a decade. Not Johnson, not Dempsey, not Louis, not Marciano, not Ali, not Holmes.
Give that robot some dues. It's not his fault that every other heavyweight was garbage for so many years. He did what he could do to build a resume but he was severely limited by the level of competition available. Earlier in his career, when his big brother was still available, it is clear they picked opponents that were better suited to each of them. The clinching was excessive and horrible to watch in so many fights. In his fight against AJ, he was 41 years old and 2 years out of the ring.... That is many years away from his peak. Trying to finish of a fighter at 41 is exponentially for difficult than it would be if you were say 31 years old. Against Tyson Fury, it was a similar story, Klitschko looking like gramps looking for his specs for 12 rounds, but Tyson Fury fought him as early as he could have, and was lucky enough to face an older and less energetic Klitschko. Personally, I don't give either Fury or AJ much credit in raising their resumes higher for beating Klitschko because he was years removed from his prime and at the very end of his career.
This content is protected The day Wlad accepts his loss to Fury and says he was a better man on the night is the day I give Wlad his props. In till then I give him nothing.
Fury and the bodybuilder Joshua were Wlad's best opponents, and they did come at the end of his reign. Povetkin, Haye, Ibragimov, and Chageav were just a too undersized to challenge him, with his jab and grab style.
The first 6 rounds of Fury AJ is going to be the best super-heavyweight fight in history (Unless AJ has a mental breakdown like Wilder) Then AJ will gas out and Fury will have his way with him.
Maybe he hadnt a steel chin, maybe he hadnt steel stamina, maybe his style was robotic, maybe sometimes he clinched like a WWE wrestler but one thing is certain..he had one of the best straight right hand ever. "Dr. Steelhammer". This content is protected
