I think his post-title run gets underrated as well. He beat Machen, Chuvalo, Cooper, Bonavena and had close fights with Quarry and Ellis. Pretty nice.
What do you mean by "all loses"? AJ only lost 1 time before Usyk and it was considered a fluke.
We're talking about Fury's resume, no?
Yeah, but when did the ducking enforced by Cus start?
They were lineal titles as real as they can get.
The big story is "Patterson was ducking Liston for years". But is this really true? Liston didn't enter the Top 10 until 1958. The number 1...
Ironically, you gotta respect the Wlad-like consistency. Dino has more similarities to Wlad than he wants to admit. For example - most of the...
Yeah, but that's a different topic. We were comparing chins, right?
In these situations the public looks at it as proving that the first fight was just a slip up. Same with Louis vs Walcott or Ali vs Spinks for...
On the other hand Holmes took multiple clean rights from McCall in their fight and didn't go down.
Looking at how Wilder was perceived at the time - it definitely is. It's Klit & Wilder, Whyte is an another consensus Top 5 guy he beat. And...
Maybe Ajagba and Wardley too.
100%. Ain't no way a guy who fought the guys like Ruddock, Bruno, Morrison, Briggs, Grant, Tua and Klitschko, taking some clean punches from them,...
Holmes Liston Ali Wlad Lewis Louis Foreman Thomas Williams Golota (before he broke his arm)
Yeah, we know, we know :D