An unbiased look at AJ's top 10 opponents

Wilder was heavily protected until 2015 and protected until 2018: since then no one has fought tougher or more dangerous competition in the sport (Ortiz, Fury, Breazeale, Ortiz, Fury, Fury). Wilder started boxing at 20 and had less than a 3 year amateur career before turning pro, AJ started at 18 and had a 6 year amateur career before turning pro. Wilder being brought along more slowly also gave him greater experience pro than AJ, who unlike Wilder got splattered by a B/C level opponent.

 

Wilder started at 20 and had a much shorter amateur career, Joyce started at 22, Tony Thompson started at 27 with virtually no amateur career.

 

You can't do it to every fighter's resume. For example, Usyk went to the backyards of half a dozen champions and unbeaten contenders and beat all of them, nearly all in dominant fashion. There is nothing manufactured about his resume. I could critique Usyk's KO record but everyone knows he's not a big puncher anyway.

Martin, Wlad and Parker wanted to fight AJ first and foremost because an AJ fight (and potential rematch) offered the most money, interest and (after the Wlad unification) status. Why fight Wilder for at least as much risk and much lower reward?

 

Judging resumes clearly has a large degree of subjectivity as so many have wildly divergent opinions but for me, AJ never could have had "by far the best resume" until he eclipsed Fury's dominant win over a 17 months younger, active, 22 win streak Wlad away from home as the B-side. No number of Whyte's and Takam's prove that AJ's on that level.

 

You should be the biggest Fury supporter on this forum: he's proven you wrong in virtually every fight he's had going back 10 years!

 

I never accused him of ducking Wlad or Povetkin, let alone zero threat Parker and Pulev. I have accused him of ducking Ortiz and Wilder, as well as not wanting the Fury fight. I have not said his resume "sucks" (by what standard?) but it's clear that it's massively overhyped.

Chisora and Kevin Johnson have fought more quality names than AJ but this omits the crucial fact that they've always lost. AJ's lost twice in dominant fashion to wide underdogs, once to a B/C level opponent. In terms of quality and dangerous opponents fought, Fury's resume is far better than AJ's.

 

There is zero attempt at being objective in your analysis, stuff like "very close fight with Chisora 1" is a joke considering that the consensus is that a not even 23 year old, 14 fight Fury won anything between 9 and 11 rounds. Not worthy of a response.