Fury beating AJ is about as foregone conclusion as you can get

I'll give Fury size and speed advantage but AJ is the better boxer and athlete.

 

I mean that Fury is fat, not much of a puncher, and mentally weak.

 

Yeah, I see Fury struggling with guys who are maybe top 50 in the world, and it makes no sense to me that anyone could rate him higher than Joshua.

 

How would you say that Fury is a better boxer? Is it the jab? The straight right? The hook? The uppercut? His footwork? Timing? Tactics? Infighting? Outfighting? Slips? Head movement? Parrying? Guard? Angles? Adherence to textbook technique? Control of distance? Please, be specific. What aspects of his would you say are elite?

When I watch his fights, he doesn't impress me in any dimension besides his obvious physical size. I don't see Mayweather when he swings his gloves. He's better than Wilder, who can't do anything, but that's not the bar.

 

Better Jab, Footwork, Timing, Tactics, Outfighting, Slips/headmovement and angles than AJ.
I don't think Mayweather is the bar either, if that's what you were implying. Tyson Fury is a real technical outfighter, good defense and heart. AJ is what I like to call "default-style", by the way he holds his hands and throws punches and moves.
He's like a jack-of-all-trades, decent at everything but doesn't over excel in anything, exception being power - he does have a punch.

 

Fury hasn’t beat a decent boxer in his prime. Otto Wallin was lighting him up for Christ’s sake. He loses to AJ. Probably gets stopped

 

I think OP is essentially right that Fury compares very favorably. I'll even add one more point: Fury will be in his head. Yes, Fury will start the fight "in the sauna."

However, I will give Joshua a lot of points for "intangibles." He has had a lot more high end fights, and, whereas he lost one, he seems to want to use it to improve.

I am picking Fury but Joshua is a live dog, and, unlike Wilder, I admire the man.

 

AJ still has to get through Pulev, let's not look too far ahead.
Remember what happened when AJ's fans tried to make the AJ-Wilder predictions and then AJ got stopped by a LHW with an eating disorder who barely trains.
Remember when AJ lost all those belts to Ruiz and for a certain period the HW champion with the most belts was the fat kid from Up?
How surreal was that!
Imagine Wlad, Vitali, Fury getting stopped by Ruiz!
Hell, imagine Povetkin, Pulev, Wilder, Parker, Chisora, Hammer getting stopped by Ruiz!

But AJ did!

 

Nice work.

 

Wlad got stopped by far worse than Ruiz

Poolev lasts maybe all of 3 rounds.

 

Joshua is a fantastic fighter and an extremely skilled boxer. This is not Deontay Wilder we are talking about, Fury will have to be at his absolute best to beat him, as Joshua will have to be at his to beat Fury. Two British grade (the highest grade) elite HWs colliding, this is as close to a pick ‘em as it gets.

 

A Historian? What's your top 5?