If Fury never throws another punch. Will history be kind.

Furys legacy is undoubtedly hurt by the following factors

• Wlad showed in his previous fight against Jennings and against AJ that father time had caught up with him, so his greatest win was actually a win against a semi-shot great fighter.
• Fury ducked a rematch through fake injuries against Wlad. This would have paid him 10s of millions, and many will question in the future whether this was because he was scared of a rematch.
• Aside from the win against Wlad. Fury doesnt have a very good resume.
• Fury being decked and struggling against fringe world class fighters before the Wlad fight, will definitely be used to prove that he caught Wlad at the right time.

If Fury wants to cement a real legacy in boxing he needs to come back and beat 2-3 world class fighters, because otherwise these questions will get heavier with every passing year.

 

I'm afraid not. You can't base a legacy on the one win vs Wlad, even though take nothing away from him it was a huge win.

 

Good question.

I think Fury would be remembered as a talented fighter that we probably never got to see the best of and who had the potential to go further and possibly have become a great HW. I wouldnt have been shocked about a prime in shape Fury beating Wilder, Parker, Joshua.
His win over Wladimir will be cited as a good win over a dominant long reigning champ. His dominant wins over Wladimir, undefeated Chisora, Chisora again and Hammer were impressive as well as other decent wins he had over Cunningham, Johnson, Rogan.
I doubt anyone would call him an ATG as he wasnt around long enough to make his mark and would leave alot of question marks but yes I think -

A talented HW fighter that we probably never got to see the best of

 

The truth is probably not great. Bearing in mind the only thing keeping him relevant atm is his tweets. Pretty sure a lot would have forgot about him by now without his own publicity.

Sports filled with guys over recent years that hardly get a mention. Its usually always ali, foremann, frazier, liston, lewis, holyfield, mike tyson, klitchko, bowe, holmes then the rest are guys that we,re around for years like them all...norton, tua etc. Not many took fury that seriously for a while. When he looked like he was becoming a serious player it was against chisora the hammer etc. He didnt really cement his name well enough before the big win against klitchko.

I think its going to be harder than ever to be remembered in this day and age as well...where people seem to move on to the next big thing quicker. Joshua started cementing his name early because he was exciting from the off but the same cant really be said about fury. His names defineyely out there but as it stands i m not sure he,ll be remembered too much in years to come.

 

I think he will go down as a wasted talent, but almost a cult figure in British boxing.

 

Especially when the Robot was found to be a fraud feasting on puddings for years.

 

As the new Meatloaf song goes.........three out of four ain't bad.

 

Some of it depends on what others of this era can go out and achieve.
If the likes of Joshua, Parker and Wilder go out and lose their next fights and/or fade into oblivion or have disappointing careers from here, history will a bit more interested in Fury, the man who dethroned Wlad Klitschko and was undefeated, and perhaps "should have been" the champion of a messy era.
But if the next next few years turns out to be a good era with a dominant champion in meaningful fights, Fury's place will be relatively less.