Lets not kid ourselves Fury will get much more credit WHEN he wins then IF Wilder was to win!

Shot to smithereens fighters of sound mind know their bodies better than anyone too and think they're still as good as ever, fighters who aren't bipolar and battling mental illness or weren't suicidal alcoholic drug addicts. They're free men who have the right to call their own shots too but it still doesn't change the fact that they're shot to smithereens.

Fury was in an extremely dark place, abused the hell out of his body, and spent a very long time out and subsequently has been very impatient to get back to the top where he once was as quick as possible, hence why he's rushing into a fight of this magnitude after not fighting anyone with a pulse in 3 years which is obviously far from ideal preparation for facing one of the top 2 HWs in the world who is in the midst of their prime, form of their life, and has been very active and possess the power and speed to take him out if he makes a single mistake.

And it's not like there was any need for him to rush either as he could easily have taken his time and waited another 6 months, had 2 or 3 more tune ups against actual world class opposition not scrubs, and then fought Donkey after he'd defended against Breazeale. Had he done it that way, the way that his own father, brother, trainer and many many others wanted and advised him to, he would've given himself the best possible chance of winning and had Donkey taken the same approach AJ did regarding facing Fury (''let him have more time to get back to his best first so there can be no excuses'' *I'm paraphrasing as I can't recall the exact quote* he would get more credit for the win too, because Fury would've actually proven he still had it after the inactivity and all the abuse he's put his body through as opposed to him only having proven that he's capable of beating a pair of scrubs and looking like garbage doing it.

Donkey is a free man too and he had the choice to take this fight now or wait until Fury had proven he was still a top level fighter and he opted for the former. Either face Fury now and get less credit or wait until he has proven he's still got it and not a mere shadow of his former self. Donkey's choice.

 

Andy Lee who is actually Tyson's cousin gives us a fighter's perspective on how inactivity (a buzzword for many boxing fans when it comes to discrediting certain fighter's wins but one which ever so conveniently they've forgotten for this fight even though there is way, way more on top of just mere inactivity that Tyson had to contend with and try and overcome) and the effect only having a couple of ''exhibition fights'' in 3 years will have on Tyson.

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Anthony ''AJ'' Joshua's prediction for the fight. AJ even freely admits here that Wlad's inactivity going into his fight against him played a big part in the fight and his win over him.

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