Fury's comments on Usyk

"Defeating an old Wlad is comparable to Marciano defeating old Louis, a win for which Marciano gets no props and neither should Fury."

You've already discredited yourself with this nonsense. Louis had been defeated just over a year prior, had been relatively inactive by his standards and wasn't a champion anymore, Wlad was undefeated in 11 years, active, a unified champ on a 22 win streak and the P4P No.2, in his backyard as the A-side. Furthermore, if Fury gets "no credit" for schooling Wlad in Germany, then AJ gets less than no credit for going life and death with a 17 months older, 17 months inactive, dethroned Wlad in Britain. By that standard AJ is rubbish and there's no need to fight him anyway as he gets less than no credit for beating Wlad, who is by far his best win.

"Wilder is constantly disparaged in here"

Of course he is. Just as Wlad was, Lewis and Holyfield were and Holmes was. Boxing fans have a bias against the present. Wilder's attributes make him a live underdog at minimum against any HW.

Usyk beating AJ x2 isn't as good as Fury beating champ Wlad or an undefeated Wilder, let alone in the manner that Fury did. AJ was already damaged goods with his awful quitjob loss to that 5'11, light punching, morbidly obese late sub. But Usyk is without question in my eyes the GOAT cruiser and a serious stylistic problem at minimum for any heavyweight.

 

We'll have a better idea this weekend. Although Fury wasn't training and was abusing junk food and drugs during the layoff, he wasn't getting punched in the head.

 

Good spot but it's less praise and more the blindingly obvious to contradict Johnny Nelson's ludicrous and resentful claim that Usyk is an "average southpaw". But in fairness Fury didn't have to say anything. Nelson was the same when Huck was closing in on his cruiser title defence record, very bitter.

 

I'll add it to the list. Usyk's competition in that regard consists of: Moorer, Sanders, Byrd, Sultan, Chagaev and technically Charles Martin, so it's head and shoulders. Fury said the other day that Usyk is "no young Evander Holyfield" but young Holyfield was beaten by a former LHW southpaw with a glass chin relative to Usyk! Furthermore, in the same interview Fury expressed a belief in the gradual progressive evolution of boxing, so according to that theory Usyk would be expected to be better than Holyfield, who Fury himself said was not able to hang with the SHW champions of the 90's, while Usyk was able to school a 2020's SHW champion in his backyard. Fury loves to talk trash but he knows that Usyk could very well be his toughest challenge and has said as much.