Can Sebastian Fundora ever be beaten?

Mykal Fox is a 6′3½″ super lightweight yet he was beaten by a 5'10" Ergashev. Fundora will get beaten as well once he faces top opposition.

 

That skinny long body of his is a massive target for bodyshots. He looks far from unbeatable.

 

I don't agree with that school of thought. There are tools which other fighters can possess to negate a reach disadvantage, like speed, footwork and timing to name a few.

 

Paul Williams should have been a welterweight GOAT according to this thread.
What happened?

 

It's a massive advantage, but not unassailable at the highest levels. That's why I don't rate Bob Foster, Michael Spinks, Bernard Hopkins, Thomas Hearns, Alexis Arguello, and Sandy Saddler as highly as smaller guys with similar achievements. Bigger guys are mostly expected to beat smaller guys. Duran vs Hearns or Whitaker vs Trinidad are almost foregone conclusions, the same as old man vs young man match ups. Sure the little guys sometimes pull off an upset, but it's rare. Hearns was fighting people he had 12 inches of reach over. That didn't mean that Ray Leonard and Marvin Hagler couldn't beat him though.

What I like to see is when these big rangy guys run into someone with a similar build as them to see how they react. Wladimir Klitschko kind of folded or had an off night against Tyson Fury because he didn't know how to fight a taller man. Alexis Arguello rose to the challenge and had two epic fights with Escalera, but he got taken out by the shorter Aaron Pryor and outslicked by Ernesto Marcel. Paul Williams was a handful for anyone but Erislandy Lara and Sergio Martinez showed his shortcomings despite being shorter. Bernard Hopkins matched up well against Keith Holmes who was taller than he was. Michael Spinks held his own against Larry Holmes, which is more than you can say of Bob Foster vs Ali, Ernie Terrell, and Zora Folley. I like it when the big guy moves up until he's the smaller guy. Holyfield vs Qawi wasn't sporting, but what's good for the goose is good for the gander and Holyfield sacked up to fight Bowe, Lewis, and Valuev.

I prefer the giant slayers such as Duran, Armstrong, Walker, Pacquiao.

Somebody already said that smaller guys can win if they get past the jab and infight. That's true, but infighting is so little part of the game and holding is so generally allowed that it's pretty rare to see this. Kell Brook fairly hugged the life out of Shawn Porter. The smaller guy has to work so hard to get past the big guy's reach but all the big guy has to do is grab for the ref to separate them. Now, the little guy has to do it all over again. He's fighting two people.

You can beat big guys if you are skilled and athletic enough. Rigondeaux busted up Amagasa who had six inches of height and four inches of reach advantage. But even Rigondeaux couldn't overcome the physical deficits of reach, height, and age against Lomachenko.

 

Fundora is domestic level at best, look how much he struggled agains fellow domestic level fighter Lewis, a guy he dwarfed in size. He will get beaten up badly the moment he takes a marginal step up, he is very flawed and has only size going for him.

 

Nah. Too frail/fragile. Daniel Lewis had some success when he was able to get inside. I imagine that's what will be his undoing. When he isn't able to establish range against a decent-good fighter he will be a sitting duck for their big shots on the inside. Overhand will deck him probably for the count. These unusually tall guys usually don't have the coordination required to be elite either.

 

The difference is the super heavys have a weight advantage. This lad doesnt as both are the same weight

 

And the proper combination of athleticism, skill and coordination needs to be possessed by these SHWs. Then the argument makes a lot of sense.