Could Fury have beaten prime Wladimir?

Wlad didn't look very sharp against AJ.
His left hook was in slow motion and he couldn't finish Joshua even when he was out on his feet.

 

You spent half a post telling me the following:

Wlad was severely declined.

Wlad was only 50%

Wlad had no stamina.

Wlad was shot against Pulev.

Wlad was shot against Jennings.

Wlad was shot against Fury.

Yet you’ve now convinced yourself that he’d definitely have beaten Fury in the rematch.

Ha!

You’re all over the place.

 

Would and could are different things.

Of course he COULD have done.

Fury isn’t a puncher, but Fury upset his rhythm by feinting him.

Wlad never saw anybody with Fury’s style, speed and confidence.

Wlad has always been cautious.

He would have been cautious against Fury whatever his age.

 

He signed a rematch, agreed to it, and then dropped out. Simple.

 

He looked sharp for periods in the fight. Especially in comparison to the Fury fight and due to him being inactive for nearly 2 years.

He could have finished Joshua.

Vitali told him the wrong advice when Joshua was vulnerable and there for the taking.

Vitali admitted this after the fight.

He looked good when he let his hands go. And if he’d have stopped him, everybody would have said that it was a great performance. And that realistically could have happened.

 

Get real.

Again, the man had a mental breakdown, almost killed himself and had 3 years away from the sport.

That isn’t simply dropping out.

Having a breakdown is not simply reneging on a contract.

He didn’t suddenly just change his mind did he.

If you don’t want to debate, then that’s fine. But don’t come with that BS.

 

Yeah, it was a duck alright. Fury was still talking shyte at the pressers while inside he was quaking.

 

Yeah.

Of course he was.

He was quaking at fighting a guy in Manchester, who he’d already beaten in Germany.

He was terrified.

Yet here we are, 6 years later, and he’s about to fight Anthony Joshua.

That’s completely logical isn’t it.

That makes perfect sense.

 

Correct. If he wanted to make the fight he would have.

 

Yeah, if only he could have found some tablets in his kitchen cupboard to have stopped his breakdown.

Then we’d have seen it.

If only Paris had added them to the shopping list.

One of the many great ‘what if?’ moments in the sport.

It was such a shame.

 

Come on now.

It was Tyson’s 25th fight.

Most of his knockouts had come from accumulative TKOs.

Wlad knew that he wasn’t a huge puncher.

Manny had him in Wlad’s camp.

 

Tony Thompson 6'5, Pulev 6'4.5, Wach 6'7.5, Sanders 6'4, Wolfgramm 6'4.5, Pianeta 6'5, Ray Austin 6'6, Williamson 6'4, McCline 6'6, Jefferson 6'6, Joshua 6'6, Fury 6'9

 

Uh, Fury, Sanders and Joshua beat them. The rest prove my point as they are fringe contender types. Maybe Thompson and Pulev are legit if unspectacular.

You legitimately truncated the statement so that the key part is missing, as if I and anyone following along wouldn't notice. Good job.