What did you think of Fury's conditioning/stamina?

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  1. ForemanJab

    ForemanJab Deus Vult Full Member

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    His VO2 max is most likely very high genetically. His conditioning and work ethic seems to have completely fallen off though. He was wolfing down candy bars in the locker room after the fight.
     
  2. dinovelvet

    dinovelvet Antifanboi Full Member

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    I only saw him eating one and how do you know it wasn't a protein bar?
     
  3. Leeroy84

    Leeroy84 Lancashire-la-la-la Full Member

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    I'd say he looked like he had a great engine, he didnt really slow much, but thats due to all the road work he does.
    His reactions and his overall fight game seemed a little off, and he did look a little flabbier than last time out, but I honestly think thats due to him not giving 100% over the last few months in camp and still wanting the weight on.
    If he gets to the winner of AJ/Usyk, I reckon Fury would be in top condition.
     
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  4. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    Man, you really think you're something special, ay? :lol:

    Eh?
    But, whatever. Intervals can only be accomplished on a treadmill? Tyson Fury has never employed interval training? Come on, man.


    Just to clarify how we got here;

    You explicitly stated that you "don't think he has particularly good stamina". Then, when challenged, you conceded that he has plenty of endurance, a quality that is defined as "denoting or relating to a race or other sporting event that takes place over a long distance or otherwise demands great physical stamina." Then you started talking about conditioning, a quality that is defined as "the process of training to become physically fit by a regimen of exercise, diet, and rest".

    I venture that you're trying to be fancy in a scramble to fend off criticism of the original post, which basically posited that Fury has ordinary stamina for a heavyweight boxer. I don't think that is a defensible statement.

    I mean, you argued that the fight with Johnson "would of (sic) been fought at his pace" — i.e. a way above-average, sixty-six-punches-per-round pace — to defend that statement about his having ordinary stamina (or "not particularly good", if you must have a verbatim quote) for a heavyweight boxer.



    You'd do better to concede that 1. your statement concerning his stamina was wrongheaded, and 2. your belief that he would struggle if pressured and forced to up his output in a fight by some unidentified opponent (who would presumably bring size and considerable output of his own) is based wholly in speculation, and that there is more evidence to refute it than prove it, least until such time as Fury meets a big swarmer like Joyce.
     
  5. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    A former Commonwealth champ on yours truly;

    "You notice him, *laughing*, he's got that elite fitness, just when you think he's dead, he comes back to life and he's fresh again!"

    I might be an oh-so "vulnerable" endangered species, on account of being wracked by a debilitating asthma (oh, the humanity!), but I know a little about what stamina/endurance/conditioning means in this sport (and I don't need a shot to protect me from the lurgy my gymmates might be carrying). :lol:
     
  6. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    Yeah, but his steel nerve would just give way under pressure from a super heavy with a high output, his ability to stay composed and relaxed would evaporate after well over a decade of professional experience, thus leading him to crap out.

    The hell it would. Fury has the gears.
     
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  7. Jennifer Love Hewitt

    Jennifer Love Hewitt Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    He did look a bit gassed at points.
     
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  8. Col Mortimer

    Col Mortimer The question isn't indiscreet.The answer could be Full Member

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    I must admit that Fury's conditioning didn't look to be quite as good as in fight II.

    He did just look a bit softer to me. Maybe his camp didn't go as good as it should have due to COVID and his baby issues etc. Who knows.

    As for Fury's gas tank. No doubts there, his tank runs on full fat 5* full leaded high octane. And he gets a great MPG too.

    No doubt in his next high profile fight against a possible Usyk or AJ I'm pretty sure his conditioning will be better as and when they happen.
     
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  9. navigator

    navigator "Billy Graham? He's my man." banned Full Member

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    No doubt. He used the same nutritionist and S&C, but the camp was obviously more disrupted and it was always going to be hard to replicate that peak when coming off almost two years of inactivity, by contrast with the three fights he'd had in the fourteen months leading up to February 2020. Let's hope we see activity now, to recover that blown momentum and return him to the state he was in twenty months ago.
     
  10. Ted Stickles

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    He was not in peak condition for this fight but the man has a naturally good gas tank and a tremendous will.
     
  11. Mickc

    Mickc Well-Known Member Full Member

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    I agree with others that Fury was still probably getting over Covid as well as having a short poor camp but it’s exceptional for someone his size and shape to do 12 hard rounds so easily. There was plenty on here saying he’d pull out of this fight at the last minute but he didn’t, he simply turned up no excuses and fought and won a war .
     
  12. JOSEY WALES

    JOSEY WALES Obsessed with Boxing Full Member

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    You reap what you sow in fitness , Tyson lives near the beach and was saying to Big Frankie Bruno HE HAS to run everyd day of his life as an aid to a healthy mental state , I was thinking about this watching the fight around the tenth and came to the conclusion that if this was over 15 rounds he'd still be in good shape. Everyone used to wonder where on earth Calzaghe got his amazing fitness from but it was slightly different with Joe as old Enzo had him running the mountain lanes in all kinds of weather .
     
  13. UFC2020

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    He is the only 280 lb guy who can move around the ring like a lightweight, is two handed, can fight south paw, orthodox, can use his weight, size to drain the other opponent
     
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  14. Bokaj

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    Yeah, I was really, really impressed by his stamina. Amazing for such a big guy who's as relatively fat as he is.
     
  15. Jackomano

    Jackomano Boxing Junkie Full Member

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    Fury paces himself well and has efficient footwork, which makes all the difference.

    Wilder’s inefficiency on the otherhand was blowing him up within the first two rounds before Furu even started putting in serious work.

    Ring efficiency is also something Joshua needs to work on if he’s going to have a chance against Usyk in the rematch.