Tyson Fury's top 5 wins (top 10)

Yeah, looking at the fact he was the lineal champion for 8 and a half years (second longest reign of all time), his resume is complete trash.

 

Awful resume

 

Yet more evidence that longevity does not, alone, mean very much.

Longevity without quality isn't impressive... and the fact that (in popular opinion, at least) Fury's best wins during his lineal reign were over another guy who represented longevity without quality as a beltholder doesn't help.

 

Wilder obviously had the WBC title and ranking, but Fury's wins over Chisora are his best after Wlad imo. Fury has a shyte resume, but he did handle Chisora easier than anyone else. Of course he didn't need to fight him for a third time, but this is Fury in a nutshell

Whyte with no chin, Old Wlad, Chisora and Wilder

That is his legacy and doesn't look great, does it?

Waste of talent, which he had some

 

Yeah, 8 and a half years... Think about it... 8 and a half years!!! Your reign starts with defeating Wlad - great win. After that you're ducking the remartch and you're inactive for 2.5 years. When you come back, you won't even fight a top guy that arose during your absence, but you're picking the safer option in number 2 rated Wilder, while not even looking at AJ who collected the belts you vacated/was stripped off. You regain The Ring recognition and capture the last belt there was for you to win, but how do you defend it? Against the same man you beat - Wilder and only 1 Top 10 guy in Dillian Whyte (very good win no matter how we look at Whyte now). And what can you say about the rest of your lineal reign? Seferi, Pianeta, Schwarz, Wallin (decent win), Chisora III and Ngannou. I can't think of a guy who made 10 title defences of the lineage with only 4 of these being against a Top 10 opponent - 3x against the same guy.

Compare it to Wlad's reign where he basically cleaned out the division out of the top contenders. I know Fury was on the berge of suicide and all of that, his comeback was impressive, but c'mon. 8.5 year reign with nothing to show for to be honest.

 

Except for Haye I guess.

 

Haye knocked him out but Chisora had good moments in that fight, but did nothing to Fury

 

It's not even that i don't want a rematch, i just don't think they're always necessary

 

Best win full stop in retrospect. Chisora's only losses going into the Vitali fight were a 12 round UD to Fury and a highly controversial 12 round SD loss to Helenius in Finland, who had previously sparked Peter.

 

I admit it is not the strongest but if he was lineal all that time, which I don't agree with as he wasn't defending, there is the decent lineal defences against Wilder if it is looked at that way

 

I think you have to look at where fighters are in their careers
No doubt Chisora has had a good career with various names and wins and losses due to longevity but I don't see him as Vitalis best win at all
I think his wins over Hide, Peters, Sanders, Adamek etc were greater
There are several wins that he has where I would have favoured certain fighters over Derek at that time but they wouldn't be thought of as highly overall due to recent form and historical standing

 

Well, Sullivan, Willard and Dempsey weren't defending the title for longer to be fair, and they stayed the champions in the eyes of the public.

 

I think Chisora has long been underrated due to his number of losses, not properly taking into account that many were close/controversial (Helenius, Whyte 1 and Parker 1 in particular) and that his level of competition was extremely high (Fury x3, Vitali, Haye, Usyk). The version who fought Vitali may have been in poor form on paper but he was very likely better than the version who has recently beaten Wallin, Joyce and Pulev. Further indication that he was more formidable than Peter, Adamek etc. is the difficulty Vitali had with him, clearly his 3rd toughest and most competitive career fight/toughest win. So while it's inherently subjective to some degree, it's easily defensible that Chisora is Vitali's best opponent beaten. Sanders has a case too imo but he's less durable and a 3 round fighter.

 

The problem that I have is that he was “lineal champ” or whatever for 8 years, and when removing rematches, his resume is:

Klitschko
Wilder
Chisora
Whyte
Wallin

when, in that time period he could’ve fought any of the following (at various points of their primes): Povetkin, Pulev, Joshua, Parker, Zhang, Joyce, Dubois, Ortiz, Ruiz, etc etc

Now, of course I don’t expect him to have fought all of the above, that’s ridiculous- but all of these names are people that were considered contenders during his reign - they were deserving of a shot at him, but they are all now “what could’ve been”. He would’ve likely beat any of them.

 

Klitschko
Wilder 2nd fight
Wilder 3rd fight
Whyte
Chisora 1st fight