Is Fury the new Ike Ibeabuchi?

It is a decent parallel, accept that fury is not in prison. If Fury wants to fight (my god, big if!) then being stripped would be the best thing. He could ask for a rating with one of the others and get a match against the Joshua-Usyk winner, no problem.

If he pulls out, he will have to forfeit some money to Wilder, and once that is done, he could be done with Deontay.

I don't think it is going to happen. fury really only fights for money. He is not just going to hand it all over.

 

No Fury has skills

 

Fury has his faculties a lot under control than Ike , Ike was straight up crazy making people call him President and just crazy in his head.

Setting a no. of punches thrown in HW along with David Tua naturally doesn't alleviate the situation.

 

god I love Tyson Fury

 

Step away from the mirror.

 

Ibeaubuci had severe mental problems. Very unpredictable and dangerous person. Fury just had a brief drug induced psychosis that went away when he stopped using cocaine.

 

That's not how I see Fury's period of inactivity.

The drugs didn't create the mental illness, that was always there and was probably exacerbated by his suspension by UKAD which for a long time was hidden, we just saw a guy spiral out of control and back out of the Wlad rematch and didn't know why. But in reality he could of never fought Wlad in the UK as he was suspended and was hiding that fact and knowing his career could be over tipped him over the edge and like a lot of people with mental health issues self medicated with drugs and alcohol.

Once Fury's admitted his guilt and it was decided the time served on his suspension was enough punishment and he could return to boxing that allowed him to get back on an even keel again and so his mental health issues became manageable again and so the drug taking and drinking stopped.

 

After fury has decimated Joshua he will have beaten 3 reigning champions. Two in their own backyards. Dominated all three of them.

With one hand literally behind his back

The legacy of Fury will be echo'd in eternity.

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Only similarities are they both had mental health issues. But Fury’s weren’t as severe as Ike’s. Ike heard voices and was violent towards others, Fury was depressed and more self destructive. Plus Fury achieved more then Ike but while both are very skilled at there own particular styles of fighting Fury is way more talented because of his ability to switch stances, box beautifully when need be and brawl when need be. Ike was a decent boxer but was more of a come forward fighter who outworked and broke his opponents down.

 

I'm a much bigger fury fan than the fake bodybuilder, but his lack of defending a title is infuriating

I have no doubt he smashes Aj to pieces, but Aj is a better champ and fights/defends titles regularly

It's annoying, but sometimes you have to be honest. If Fury pulls out against Wilder? I don't care about his future. I won't go as far as saying I want Aj to be the man, but he is better for the sport than Tyson

 

I don’t see it that way at all. Fury strikes me as a very mentally strong person. I don’t buy that the UKAD situation (which wasn’t even that big deal as worst case scenario he could’ve rode out the suspension in the UK while fighting abroad) was the cause of his mental health issues. If some simple life stress could crush him like that then he would’ve never been capable to go into hostile territory to beat Klitschko in front of 55k ppl or go 12 rounds with Wilder when everyone thought he was washed up. His career up until the Klitschko fight went along fairly normally. No public rants of suicidal ideations or massive weight gains. It’s a well known fact that street drugs such as cocaine that alter brain chemistry can induce psychosis in certain individuals (esp young ppl).

Imo Fury got on the booger sugar after the high of Wlad victory and it messed his head up for a couple years. When he got clean he went back to normal.

Very different from a violently psychotic person like Ibeabuchi who purposely crippled a minor and broke a sparing partner’s knee.