Is Tyson Fury Among Your Top Ten Greatest Heavyweights

Absolutely not.

 

No but I do have him in the top 15- top 20

 

No I don’t. If he had gotten to work after the Klitschko fight and stayed busy racking up a lengthy title reign then he might have made top ten. But there was too much inactivity and not enough of the right fights made

 

This has to be a joke. Not even top 15.

Talented, sure. But top 15? Not in a million years.

Dude has one of the thinnest possible resumes. Even top 20 is debatable.

When you miss out fighting Joshua, Parker, Kabayel, Zhang, Joyce, Povetkin, Dubois, Hrgovic, Bakole etc. you can't have any claim for a top 10 spot. Sure, you wouldn't expect them to fight all of the guys mentioned but you would expect him to fight the majority or at least some substantial portion of them.

Losses can be looked past. A loss doesn't mean someone isn't an ATG. Even multiple losses don't stop you from being ATG. But a lack of depth in who you have fought does preclude you from a top 15 spot.

If Ali only fought Liston, Foreman and Frazier, and did not fight Norton, Shavers, Lyle, Bugner, Terrell, Quarry, Bonavena etc. no one would regard him as the GOAT.

 

NO

 

H2H yes.

 

he'd be lucky to be a top 25 H2H among British HWs nevermind the History of Boxing.

P4P - H2H, he would be found somewhere 200 or so down the line among Histories Heavyweights!

 

Struggling with Wallin and Nnganou puts serious doubt into this as well.

 

@NoNeck

I know you are pretty big on Fury do you see a case for having him top 10?

 

I don't have him in the top ten unless it's h2h. I think I had him at ten, but now I have Usyk at ten. It comes down to a low volume round or two in each fight, but it is what it is.

 

Surely victories over such monsters as Pianeta and Serferi and Wallin make 9 other top HW's of olden days look weak.

Just kidding.

HELL NO.

 

too Right!

H2H in the Case of the Giants, has to be understood as P4P H2H, because we are not just talking HWs here, No, they are 2 Different Divisions - HWs and S-HWs... P4P means any fighters "On EVEN Playing Fields verse Each Other.

so Fury on equal terms with the Smaller Men P4P H2H, there are a whole host of BETTER Boxers, Fighters and Brawlers even than Sir Biggest Guarded Tyson Fraudy.

here are BoxRecs top 50 Brits HW's, see how many are Better H2H Fighters, at least 20 or so bang him up good.

https://boxrec.com/en/ratings?r[role]=box-pro&r[sex]=M&r[status]=&r[division]=Heavyweight&r[country]=GB&r_go=

 

No.

Also, lol.

 

Hes not in my top 20