Fury - Usyk

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  1. Redbeard7

    Redbeard7 Boxing Addict Full Member

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    24-5 crackhead McCall and 8 years boxing experience Rahman would be the top 2 heavies in this terrible era! They would I swear!
     
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    More boring than Ruiz-Joshua 2? Watching Joshua run for his life for 36 minutes (plus 11 minutes worth of breaks) against a 6', 284 lbs tub of lard who hadn't trained for the fight wasn't exactly a thriller. It did have a certain comedic value though I suppose.
     
  3. Mitch87

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    Yes clearly less entertaining that AJ vs Ruiz 2. AJ and Ruiz landed much more punches than what was landed in Wlad vs Fury fight and certainly engage with each other more.
     
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    Too much damage control going on here from the Gypsy queens fans. Your lad ducked a middleweight. Accept that you got mugged off and find a new fraud to worship.
     
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  5. Mitch87

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    Yes. The same Lewis that beat the likes Vitali, Hollyfield, Tyson, Mercer, Tua, Golota, Rahman, Bruno, Morrison, Briggs and Ruddock.

    Lewis is one of the very top ATG HWs.
     
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    Povetkin Parker cv analysis please.
     
  7. Beale

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    Look at the win column - absolutely bulging with huge names facing the best in the division and ducking nobody.

    You do know Ali lost 5 times?
     
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    You insinuated Lewis would run through them all in this era but he lost to two boxers who are much worse than at least a handful of this eras boxers.

    Lewis is one of the best but invincible he is not also he fought some of the biggest names when they were past it like Holyfield and Tyson

    you’d be slating the likes of briggs Morrison ruddock bruno Botha if they were about today
     
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  9. Beale

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    I would back Lewis against the lot in this era without hesitation and there would be no ducking at all.

    Bruno and Ruddock also far better than all but 3-4 in the current era where some of the opponents look less intimidating than a current unfit and old Neil Razor Ruddock.
     
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    Yeah I agree the point absolutely still stands mate
     
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  11. Manning

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    The worst thing about this duck from Fury is that Usyk in the twilight of his career is going to be stuck having to fight a donkey in Dubois now as a mando due to the usual WBA total corruption.
     
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    It occurred to me today that one reason Fury might not have wanted this fight in April is the Netflix doc coming out in July. That is going to raise his profile amongst casuals enormously, and probably globally. Neither he nor Netflix would want a gamechanging plot twist like a loss to Usyk occuring after filming and before broadcast.
     
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    Imagine a fighter who has spent all his career fighting in opponents countries, not tied to any networks or not with a rival promotion company who is difficult to deal with, has 3 of the 4 belts and is also willing to take 30% to make the fight.

    All of this and yet people still somehow defend Fury.
     
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    tbf McCall must be the toughest crackhead in history.
     
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    Either poor reading reading comprehension or dishonest subject switching. Parker and Joshua landed more punches against each other than were landed in Ruiz-Joshua 2.