Can any heavyweight from history realistically beat Tyson Fury?

thanks for the spell check, but I wish it was, ridiculous, sadly it is not though.

 

Look at who the 10 "title" defenses were against and you tell me. Considering the fact that he's already in his mid 30s probably never but it would have been when he learned to use footwork and both hands to box not just repeatedly throw overhand rights out of a crow hop until these out of shape jokes can't get out of the way any more

 

While I understand that Wilder's success has been very upsetting to you, his footwork is one of the big reasons why he has been successful in landing bu bombs.

 

One has to have a mastery of balance to throw a devastatingly hard punch. That was also one of the freeked out things about Foreman, he had such a command of his balance that he sometimes didn't really need to actually step in with a punch, he'd get a huge amount of force simply by having great control over his center of gravity. Frazier too.

Without good footwork, Wilder would never have become known as a top three ATG puncher. And he does move quite good in general for a very big man.

 

Inspired by the theme:
https://www.boxingforum24.com/threads/sylvester-stallone-calls-tyson-fury-the-hw-goat.695355/
I came up with this idea. You can also make a list if you want, but it would be preferable to highlight who you single out as the first favorite to beat Tyson Fury.
My favorite is peak Lennox Lewis.

P.S. Please just skip Usyk, as it is still unproven and there is a high probability that this thread will turn into a "Fury Vs Usyk" thread.

 

I pick Ali,Louis,Frazier,Foreman,Lyle,Liston,Marciano,Holmes,Tyson...i think they would beat Fury.

 

Joe Louis
Ali
Holmes
Mike Tyson
Michael Spinx
Lennox
Chris Byrd
Douglas

I would not hesitate to pick them over Fury. Some of them would straight up embarrass him due to the clash of styles. What elite boxer with high ring IQ has Fury ever beaten...? Let me know when Fury finds the balls to fight Usyk. If he can beat him then maybe we can actually entertain the idea of Fury being some elite h2h monster. All beating Wilder proved was that Fury is tough and hard to KO (let's just ignore how Fury was arguably saved by the ref lol).

 

I am not sold on Fury as he beat the old and not so good. His resume of ring magazine ranked men ( when he meet them ) is low by the standard of heavyweight champions. I use this benchmark because it is fair to all and is the gold standard of quality per era. The present and the past. I suspect a chin that could be had, as he was down 4 times vs Wilder and twice to a no name man and older blown up cruiser weight not known as a puncher. He also lost on a fair score card vs McDermott on points. It he all that? I say no.

But the man can fight! I think several of histories past fighters could beat him, and the are better fighters than the men who Fury beat with the old Wlad and the flawed Wilder being his best wins. He career isn't over yet. He might beat Usyk, and Joshua. But a 3rd fight with and old and not presently not so good Chrisora will prove nothing.

 

Hundreds of them...

there is 150 years of Boxing History, not only long before him, but more importantly, well better than him!

 

As Larry Holmes pointed out, he big but can't box for sh.t. Looking at resume, he's done nothing impressive and the only thing on there worth writing about to an extent is that he got a decision against an old Wladimir and managed to barely beat Wilder, a guy who can't box.

Just touching off on some names for who'd demolish Fury,

Ali
Sunny Liston
70's Foreman (90's is just too slow)
Larry Holmes
Tim Witherspoon
Joe Louis
Both Spinks brothers at HW
Iron Mike
Holyfield
Quick Tillis
Buster Douglas (when he's in the mood to tune someone up)
Riddick Bowe
Andrew Golata
Lennox Lewis
Michael Moorer
Roy Jones Jr at HW
Wladimir or Vitali (prime)

Basically any heavyweight out there who has something unique about them, can also box quite well AND can take a good hit will beat Fury. If they cant knock him out, they'll beat him on points.

 

Alot

 

Obviously there are always some that beat others, but at his best I don't think Fury will ever be EASY to beat.

 

I love the absurdity of those threads.

 

Lennox Lewis
Vitali Klitschko
Ken Norton
Tim Witherspoon
Mike Tyson
Larry Holmes
Joe Louis
Ike Ibeabuchi
Evander Holyfield
Muhammad Ali
George Foreman
Riddick Bowe

I'm on about the best versions of all these fighters BTW.

 

Since our threads are now merged Austinboxing, I haven't read your opinion, but I'm interested.
In case you didn't read my opinion: