5 months later what are your thoughts on Wilder v Fury III looking back?

Hi.

 

The fight result was as expected, Fury did not perform at his best but clearly won, and Wilder showed a warrior spirit.

My view is that Fury trying to walk away from the rematch clause, and the fight then only happening after legal arbitration took another chip out of the sport of boxings reputation, yes there were hold ups, but that was from both camps, so that is my looking back memory.

 

Then I'll accept your words at face value and assume you meant to suggest there was no definite top guy at the weight in the advent of Fury's career resumption. I understand why some might argue as much. There were those who did agree with your position at that time, though many of them have since accepted Fury's resumption of the lineage, but also plenty (including some respected voices) who disagreed with you and maintained that a returning Fury was still the man, having never lost his status in the ring.

My track record is there, slugger. Never hated the guy. Frowned upon him sometimes, sure, ragged him out in particular instances, but he's not really hateable. I've gone to bat for him wherever I felt it was a matter of fairness to do so. In fact, from the beginning of his professional run, I always expected and wanted him to do well because I thought he might be able to provide a foil, a key rival, by which Fury could one day define himself. Back when guys were dismissing him as another David Price in the making, I was telling them he was a lot better than that, that he was plenty capable of picking up some heavyweight belts that may scatter in the future. Even went very much against the grain and stated that he was near enough ready to wreck Klitschko as early as the Kevin Johnson bout (he chopped Wlad down a couple years later, albeit after Fury had relieved him of his titles).

Kudos, best statement you've made, you're not entirely bereft of discernment. I just don't agree with your grading of Wilder.

If lineage were nonsense, there wouldn't be a thread here about the momentous occasion of a new bantam lineage being established by the Inoue-Donaire II fight.

I've covered why Hearn and Joshua were the party more at fault for the collapse of Wilder-Joshua negotiations, that's been done in a bunch of old threads. I didn't need to do it again, since your own statement was blunt and unsupported, so I refuted it with equal bluntness before observing that Wilder moved on from the Wilder-Joshua negotiation breakdown by facing Fury, a better fighter than Joshua with a more legitimate championship claim (being the man who beat the man) — Wilder came up short in his challenge of the world's heavyweight champeen, granted, but he had some spectacular moments of success and ultimately damn near died trying to get a W out of that rivalry.

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Something I do have a ton of respect for Wilder for;

He said that if he was going to talk about putting bodies on his record, he'd better be ready to give his own life in there to win.

He lived by those words, faced his fears and came to those Fury bouts ready to leave in a coma if need be. He's impressionable and not so bright, he made and continues to make ******ed excuses as to why he lost to Fury, but the man has the very heart and soul of a fighter. His commitment is a large part of why this fight will be remembered as a historical classic. He and Fury were alike in that quality.

 

40%? What?

 

Excellent post. All these excuses for Fury are bat**** crazy, like some are saying he wasn't even 40%!

 

I thought going into the fight Fury was the better fighter, fight I was a master class outside of the last round, fight II was an epic beat down of astonishing Proportions, fight III was a highly entertaining slugfest with both fighters laying it on the line and unleashing and receiving some hellacious blows.
Over all one of the better trilogies in recent memory overall as far as rounds won by each fighter it’s wide favoring Fury but just how each fight played out I think every bout was thrilling in its own way and how we reach the results make it an epic ride along the way

 

Fury straight up pushed his szhit in on PPV.
Wilder all heart but man he took some harsh punishment

 

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5:40
Fury showed mental dominance over Wilder even in the rounds he was on the floor.
But he showed that in the whole trilogy. in that domain the result is 100/0 for Fury.

 

Given the 4th round, I highly doubt Fury wins 100 out of 100. In fact, if they were the same size, I think Wilder wins tbh.

 

Greatest fight i've ever seen

 

Fury getting rocked and taking to the ropes in round 10 then coming forward hands down hitting himself in the head to show Wilder he is unstoppable was epic.

Shame they don't have a better camera angle of it

 

It confirmed what many of us have said for years - Wilder was overrated, had a ridiculously padded record, and was packing some glass in that shaky mandible that Nichols and Sconiers exposed years ago.

 

Tyson Fury was in Wilder's head the moment he played "Sweet Home Alabama" for his ring walk against Francesco Pianeta. He knew that Wilder was fragile.

 

I agree with a lot of what has been said in here very entertaining fight. I did have a thought I remember watching live that I thought Wilder was gone in the 3rd round when Fury first dropped him. I wonder if there was more time left on the clock if Fury would have finished him that round a KO in round 3 would've been seen as a complete blowout.