Do we read too much into Furys magical night against Wlad?

Wlad was shot to ****.

 

beating a 38 yr old man isnt difficult when that guy was hardly built on h2h ability, should have been an easy passing of torch but tyson forgot to pick up the torch apparently.

theres nothing more to it, he fought middling in the event, just wlad was way worse.

 

if fury want tto return with success he needsto get past calling this a "magical night", it was anything but. in another era it would have been a contention bout, not title, something you build a real career on top of, not hang it as your trophy.

fury needs to get muchbetter.

 

The short answer is yes.

The long answer is ... the best punch Fury has ever thrown was the uppercut in his own face and the performance against Wlad has nothing to do with his fight against Wilder because it won't work against him as you correctly pointed out.

But that doesn't mean that he is a bum, because he would probably beat everyone not named Wilder or Joshua and maybe Ortiz, because luckily for him, he is huge and his movement is really good for his size combined with a solid jab and huge reach advantage which is enough for him to beat the most heavyweights.

 

Thing is we all saw what happened in the last round wher Wlad actually let his hands go,take nothing away though but imo that performance spoke as much about Wlads unusual performance as it did Fury’s brilliance.

 

It was an awful fight, all anybody has to do is go back and look at the RBR, I found it absolutely hilarious, the fight and both fighters were absolutely slaughtered.

The way I see it is like this.. It was a great achievement by Fury but a really poor performance.

Nobody can knock Fury for beating Klitschko in Germany, he did what he had to do and fair play to him.

But this win somehow gets better and better as the weeks, months and years go by and the performance is also now being remembered by some as a legendary performance when at the time it was heavily criticised.

So, yes we do read too much in to it but I also think we should give Fury huge credit for going to Germany and beating Klitschko.

 

It was a brilliant performance from Fury. He feinted Wlad all night long. He then hid his own offense in his feints.
Whenever Wlad adapted to the timing of any of Fury´s feints, Fury would himself use it to set traps.

 

ok, i am glad you had a magical night at home that time. Iget that it was fun to see mega cheat wlad getting beat up without his cheats.

butg tyou know, noone calls holmes ali or rocky louis magical nights, they were pitious nights, and those two were leagues ahead of wlad.

 

It was a god awful fight. Wlad laid an egg because he's old and was at the end of his career but for some reason Fury was happy to match him and laid one too.

 

i guesss we didnt watch all the other rounds

 

Ray Austin was a slimy big man kind of like Fury with an underappreciated resume. Wlad just put him away, even though he was generally durable. Also Thompson didn't cause too much of a problem. Those fights suggest that Wlad at his best would've handled Fury.

It was still a very good win though and almost all of the heavyweight division at the time (except maybe Joshua, Ortiz, and Wilder) would've stood no chance.

 

You can't base someones ability on only one fight, it doesn't work that way, Wlad was the only opponent with
similar physical dimensions to a Deontay Wilder or Anthony Joshua, also Wlad was a painfully cautious fighter,
when you look at his other opponents, they all were a lot smaller than him and mostly slow and plodding fighters
like Chisora or Hammer which played into his cards.

One of the only dynamic and more athletic fighters he fought in Steve Cunningham gave him troubles, that fight
and a lot of other fights where he didn't look dominant have to be considered.