Fury's Ab Guard

Generally, in heavyweight title fights, any challenger is allowed to wear an ab guard, and a champion with more than 40 wins is not allowed to wear an ab guard.
Wlad will be challenger in the rematch, so both will be wearing ab guards.

Welcome, and I hope that answers your question. :good

 

WHY!?

Insane rules...

Almost as stupid as hockey's rule - 2 min for elbowing - 5 min if there's blood...

 

Sucker punched

 

I say Lennox Lewis was notorious for his guard.

It was virtually under his arm pits in the 2 Evander fights.

 

Fury wears it high because he has a pear-shaped body - his hips are pretty wide - and when he sweats his guard rises up higher. And his hips keep it high. (I'm not joking.)

Regarding Wlad, after he collapsed versus Lamon Brewster and claimed his legs gave out, Steward suggested a number of small changes that might add up. One of them, according to Steward, was that Wlad's guard/cup was too big and bulky and it got heavy when water got poured on it during the fight.

And there's a documentary or interview with Steward where he says Wlad took a guard and cut it down much smaller and sewed it back up. And he used tailored guards/cups after that Brewster loss. Wlad felt it was more aerodynamic and not bulky.

I don't know if they actually helped, but psychologically he thought they wouldn't weigh him down as much.

Seriously.:good

 

In the case of Tyson, it was more an hindrance than anything else- Wlad didn't go to the body much, and never that low, and in the last part of the match it was slipping down, giving Wlad the only opportunities to land something, without any effect of course.

Also lol at Lennox's guard, it's true his trunks started from the nipples