Both men incredibly tall and lanky, neither with much muscle tone..lousy punching technique and footwork Both men unseated long standing, unpopular champions thought of as "unbeatable" Willard won belt in 1915, Fury in 2015 Willard went on to get mauled by Jack Demspey and was quickly forgotten... And what of Fury??
Imagine a 200lb ATG emerges with the ferocity and explosiveness of Dempsey to dethrone Fury! A man can dream...
Well, Jack Johnson didn't get an immediate rematch. So, maybe your comparison will give us an idea of what might have happened if Johnson had?
Uh...eerie similarities? I was expecting something more profound to be honest. But anyway...he's big and can fight a little. I don't expect too much from his tenure though. Wlad was getting on and someone had to be the one to be the right man at the right time.
Perhaps the similarity that we are actually seeing is between Wladamir Klitschko and Jack Johnson. They were both ageing champions who had built up an aura of invincibility, and they both got separated from their titles in an unexpected manner.
