Is Tyson Fury still a prime fighter?

They both have garbage resumes. Whether you see someone beating Fury or not means nothing. As risk adverse as he is, he is looking to fight that mma goof as a way to age out Usyk.

 

lol Fury risk averse wtf

 

Cheers. It never clicked that the Cunningham fight was at MSG. Makes sense now why Cunningham still can't accept the loss.

 

I think physically Fury is definitely past prime. I don't think he's as light on his feet or as quick with his hands as he once was. However, I think Sugarhill has him punching harder than ever and he gains experience every time he enters the ring so he may be better than he's ever been. Whether you call that prime or past prime I don't know.

 

Wasnt in Big MSG though was it? Thought it was in the smaller theatre venue

 

His legs are shot, he still looks relatively fleet footed against plodders like Whyte and Chisora but the Usyk fight will show how far his footwork has slipped, he’s become a bit of a mauler now, jab, right hand, left hook and then tie up, be interesting if he fought Joe Joyce to see how that style matches up.

 

I loled too. I'm no Fury fanboy, I actually prefer AJ as a person despite his limitations in the ring, but Fury isn't risk averse at all. Traveled to Klitschko's adopted homeland to fight him, took the Wilder fight so much sooner than he had to, those two fights are the opposite of risk averse. Yes he's fought some rubbish people, but so has every top heavyweight. I don't think Fury or Joshua are risk averse. I don't think many top boxers are. I think sometimes the teams who live off them are but I honestly don't think many boxers are. They get punched in the head for a living, if they were risk averse they'd not be boxers.

I'm risk averse hence being an office ***ker

 

On his way out and he knows it.

 

Joshua is defo risk averse but aside from that ...

spot on

 

You are right. It was in the now Hulu Theatre. I'm sure it was still meaningful for the fighters to say they fought there. But it's not really on the same scale as when Canelo and Joshua did more recently.

 

he never was, a completely tailored, protected & controlled career, sub-standard overall.