9 years ago today Tyson Fury saved the Heavyweight division

It was a pretty terrible fight and didnt exactly set the world on fire at the time. It was AJs rise and the AJ/Wlad fight that really got the ball rolling.

 

Saved???? Honestly u post some utter nonsense

 

He made it interesting, but it was far from saving. You had a great champion in Wladimir Klitschko, who took on all comers, defeated his every number 1 contender who wasn't his brother and cleaned out the division. What you got instead of him was a guy who ducked the rematch with the former champion twice, got caught for PEDs and went missing for 2 and a half years doing coke and drinking 20 pints a day. What actually saved the division is other talented boxers like AJ, Parker, Wilder going for the belts that Fury didn't defend and never got back. The division was in full force after Fury came back, so props to him for that.

 

Joshua and Usyk saved the division when Fury was putting a black eye on the sport with his lengthy drugs ban and awful out of the ring behaviour.

 

Peak Fury under Peter really could’ve been something

 

We've all been under Peter at some point in our lives, but it's better for some of us than others, honestly.

 

I predicted Fury would beat Wlad who was getting gun shy and complacent. Still a good win. Although an incredibly boring fight.

 

We didn't appreciate Wlads routine title defenses and Fury/AJ/Usyk have been making us pay for it ever since.

 

Sadly have to agree there. Hopefully captain turkey turns it around.

 

People are delusional about Wlad's 'golden dominance'.

K's got comfortable at the top then fought dodgy challengers all the time in ridiculously one-sided fights. Vitali fought Charr for godsake.
And they would never fight each other so their promotional company had a stranglehold. Then the corrupt tactics of contracts where you had to fight the brother if you won etc. The gamesmanship cheating.

The idea AJ 'saved' the division is another laughable myth. He literally ducked Wilder for years and it was left for Fury to fight him. Then AJ ducked Fury for years. You minions need to explain how the most moneyed fighter at HW is now middle-age and still hasn't fought Wilder or Fury. He also ducked Joyce btw.

The only time Fury avoided people was when he was literally AWOL, walking around as a blob telling everyone he wanted to die.

 

I was there in Dusseldorf with some casual friends. To this day they still hate on boxing due to how underwhelming the fight was.

I guve Fury more credit than most fjr the actual boxing. He took wlads jab away cause of the herky jerky style and movement needing him to reset constantly. Thats how he won a clear ud. It was boring but nobody expected wlad to kose a ud in Germany.

I due wonder how an aj fight wlad would have done in manchester. More risk and more active. Its a shame it never came of.
But this is what set of the motions and ended Wlads decade long reign.

 

Yes.

Mormeck - Thompson 2 - Wach - Pianeta - Leapai

Five of Wlad's six opponents over a direct 2+ year stretch. "Weak era" is a BS excuse; Wlad was avoiding far better and far more lucrative opponents (Haye 2 and Povetkin 2 in particular, Chisora and Ortiz were also there). Just as he'd blatantly ducked rematches with Sanders and Williamson, despite rematching a couple of nonentities early in his career after he didn't KO them first time.

"The idea AJ 'saved' the division is another laughable myth"

As maligned as it is, Wilder had a stronger résumé until Joshua beat dethroned Wlad and arguably did again after Joshua lost to Ruiz.

 

Absolutely Fury rescued the division and at the time he was rightly hailed for it.