Heavyweight top ten looking something like this now?

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  1. Phila215

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    Wach might be able to beat Glazkov, no doubt Glazkov is the worst of the top 10....But Perez should be ahead of both guys.

    And I have a hard time believing that Wach would be very competitive against Perez
     
  2. Phila215

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    Wach's best win is Tye Fields...or I guess Hammer in Hammer's 9th fight.

    Wach does not have the resume
     
  3. The Long Count

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    Why not?
    I am not a huge believer in Fury but he has a decent resume for a young guy. I think Cunningham, Chisora 2x, Johnson, and now coming up Hammer is better than Wilder's Stiverne resume.
     
  4. N_ N___

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    Scott is about as good as Cunningham though.
     
  5. The Long Count

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    That's fair. Debatable I like Cunningham but it's fair. I should of included Scott for Wilder.
     
  6. Rico Spadafora

    Rico Spadafora Master of Chins Full Member

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    Wilder now has a better win than Fury. Cunningham is not a top 10 Heavyweight. Neither is Takam. Your list is awful.
     
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    Yeah, gotta count it unless the investigators determine it was a dive. Personally, I think he got caught cold.
     
  8. PolishNavy

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    Champ Wlad
    1. Povetkin
    2. Haye
    3. Wilder
    4. Pulev
    5. Jennings
    6. Stiverne
    7. Fury
    8. Chisora
    9. Wach
    10. Szpilka
     
  9. McGrain

    McGrain Diamond Dog Staff Member

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    Yeah, but you're so blinded by hatred of British heavyweights that your opinion is impossible to take seriously. I wouldn't listen to you any more than i'd listen to any other racist/prejudice type.

    This is arguable. I see him as the bottom of the ten or a little lower, and can certainly see a ten without him.

    Makes other lists (including Fightnews) and is very clearly in amongst Cunningham, Areola, Perez and perhaps Adamek, Chisora and Thompson.

    Basically insisting that any of these guys "don't belong" on a ten is objectionable. They can all reasonably be placed in the bottom spots of what is a very weak division.

    You're a dumb, prejudice, trolling, stupid fuck, so your opinion means about as much to me as any of the other useless tosspots that fulfil various "realities" just so that they can inform their own bizarre fetishes. In other words, nothing.
     
  10. McGrain

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    Sometimes i'm quite blaise about opinions like that, but in this case I would strongly disagree; I certainly don't think the case for "several" of the guys below him to be definitely above him is any stronger than the case for his being definitely above them - both cases seem extreme to me. I've no problem with Fury so high and I think he has a flat-out better resume than Wilder.
     
  11. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Strongly disagree.

    Cunningham is a blown-up cruiser, and was up on the cards (two of the official judges' and nearly every fan's or journalist's) and had to put up with some very wonky officiating, between the long count in the 2nd (Fury was up on Bambi legs around 8-9 seconds after his back hit the canvas, didn't turn and face Eddie Cotton to present his fists until twelve seconds had passed) and the blatant disregard of Fury's rabbit punches, which in accumulation scored him the victory over the much smaller man.

    So that's only a marginally good win at heavyweight (though it has, on paper, aged well, given Cunnnigham's decent streak ever since) when it happened, as Cunningham was technically 1-1 at the weight even though he did get robbed in the loss in the Adamek rematch - and the W over Gavern meant nothing - and, to boot, a tainted win.

    Chisora he already beat in 2011. Why does beating him in 2014 - when Chisora has been thrice beaten in the intervening time, by pretty much every significant opponent faced - suddenly vault him up into a #2 spot at HW? Did beating him the first time when Chisora was undefeated make Fury #2 back in 2011? No, of course it didn't. So why does beating someone you've already defeated once - and Chisora remains Fury's best win(s) over a true heavyweight, by the way - suddenly elevate him that much? Over the likes of Pulev? Seriously?

    As for Johnson, that lazy SOB also lost wide to Christian Hammer, Manuel Charr, and Fury's own twice-beaten rival Dereck Chisora after Fury outpointed him. Earlier that same year he ****ed the bed in Prizefighter against Tor Hamer. After his challenge of Vitali, there is nothing relevant or world class about Kingpin. And he's Fury's third best win, and the 2nd best win (after Scott) on the record of Chisora, Fury's actual best win x2.
     
  12. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    Chisora II
    Cunningham
    Chisora I
    Johnson

    Those four wins aside, Fury's resume is trash. Just pure filler all the way down.

    As for Wilder:

    Stiverne (happened to be WBC champ when they fought, can't sneeze at that, even if he was a weak titlist)
    Scott
    Liahkovich

    Same applies here, throw out those and Wilder's resume is trash.

    So, okay, Fury has four remotely worth discussing wins to Wilder's three - but the fact that one for Wilder is over a reigning world titlist (whatever you may feel about the state of the fractured ABC org situation) has to be respected and elevated above Fury's best achievement, twice beating Euro-level beast and world level trier-but-failure Chisora.


    The rest pretty much cancel out (Scott & shot Liakhovich vs. blown-up Cunningham and increasingly lazy and apathetic Johnson - and really I think I'm being generous to Fury calling that particular 2-on-2 a wash, because Scott is head and shoulders the best win of the four, especially given the manner...unless you're going to delve into all the "dive" talk...)
     
  13. Rico Spadafora

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    you are a snot nosed kid who doesn't know anything and I have been watching Boxing longer than you have been alive. I don't have any problem with 'British' fighters Fury's resume is awful. Furthermore I don't care what fight news has someone ranked.

    How someone that pretends to watch Boxing can come up with a list as awful as yours is beyond me. Yes the Division is weak but you have Cunningham as a ranked fighter (no doubt to push your strange fetish/agenda for Fury) which is laughable. I am not the only one to point this out to you. So, I guess the others are 'biased' and don't know anything either? :lol::rofl
     
  14. IntentionalButt

    IntentionalButt Guy wants to name his çock 'macho' that's ok by me

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    ...and Fury vs. Wilder is at least same ballpark, as far as I'm concerned, with their resumes. (even though beating the WBC champ ought to be the clincher there, aas it beats a pair over Chisora hands down)

    Fury vs. Povetkin or even Pulev? We're not even talking same ballpark. Not even the same league.

    Jennings has a clearly better resume.
     
  15. McGrain

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    This is true; but it's still a win over a guy who is in the argument for a top ten spot. Beating a guy in the top ten is always, always going to enhance that fighter's standing, and the weaker the division the more it will enhance his ranking. Retrospectively this looks nice, though it was goofy.

    Only a ranking that stressed performance and h2h criteria (more subjective) over actual achievement in the ring (more objective) would stress the points you make above - that's fair enough, but that type of ranking isn't of that much interest to me beyond curiosity.

    Well he wasn't beaten by every opponent of significance first of all.

    He beat Malik Scott (second best win for one of the guys you are insisting should be over Fury!) by knockout, he beat Kevin Johnson very clearly on points, both solid wins.

    No, but Fury was way farther down the list then, which would make it a huge and alarmingly bizarre leap. Secondly, Chisora wasn't ranked in the ten at that time - he was for the second fight.

    Again, defeating a ranked opponent in such a weak division will always enhance any given fighters standing.

    You've got that the wrong way around; Fury wasn't elevated over Pulev, Pulev was demoted by a loss. The duty of any good rankings system is to identify who is in line to fight the champion. After being destructively and one-sidedly destroyed by the champion, it's not Pulev.

    Fury is absolutely, inarguably, beyond hope of contradiction, more "in line" for a shot than Pulev. The rankings reflect that.


    There just isn't much around now. But Fury is absolutely fine above those other guys. It's not problematic at all, or even odd IMO.

    That's why Fury ranks #2 with Ring, #2 with Fightnews and #3 with Boxing Monthly, presuming Stiverne is moved below him which he absolutely should be.