Tyson Fury - a man who has let his peak years slip away with inactivity

He was inactive in 2016 and 2017 because he wanted to duck rematch with Wlad.

 

The lack of rematch with Klitschko is a great big black stain on his record, regardless of the reason why - especially with the question marks over Wlad, which could've been put to bed with a rematch win (assuming he could've won, which of course we'll never know).

And the Wilder fights, though highly entertaining, have aged poorly as the narrative around Wilder has corrected itself quite a bit - from a highly dangerous KO artist who'd be a danger to anyone ever, back down to earth somewhere between a powerful but underproven "what-if" and a borderline fraud so protected there had to be a reason why.

Fury, himself, did little to help Wilder's standing in history by beating him whilst clearly unfit twice and making it look so ridiculously easy the only time he truly trained properly for him - and that with an unfamiliar style that didn't suit his mediocre power.

Then you have Whyte who, whilst far more proven than Wilder, was very likely damaged goods after Povs spectacular KO.



And yet... The performances against Wlad (even with the asterisk) and the performances again Usyk show he was up at the top end of the division - it's just that a relatively thin resume and several asterisks take the shine off a bit.

And the greatest irony of it all is... In some ways he was actually quite lucky - he could easily have finished his career with several more losses than he eventually did.

His peak is gone, he's been inactive at the point where it's even harder to get back to fitness and the one fight he desperately wanted (Usyk 3) is not going to happen - I don't think he'll fight again.

When anyone says Fury was an enigma - no kidding!

 

Yep he was too busy huddling in his basement eating every kebab in Britain.

 

Or hiding from his failed drug test....so those years was in effect his banned years for taking performance enhancing drugs

 

kebab rules

 

The main thing he did was go AWOL and waste three or so years.
But he's not that inactive when he's 'unretired'.
You forget that Covid was shutting a lot of things down.
Haye wasted a year with two pullouts.
Wlad also pulled out once with minor injury from the rematch, people forget that, and the fight would have probably happened if he hadn't. The reason is that Fury got worse through that rematch period until he ultimately stopped showing up.

He's not fighting now because he's winding down and only wants a big fight with Usyk or maybe AJ.

 

Inactivity and just generally being a disgraceful slob of a human being.