Tyson Fury's absolute peak

Good points

 

Wilder 2,3 and Whyte.

Age wise it probably is before he fought Wlad. But thats not everything.

 

Wilder in 2020 at 32 years old

Then is elbows blew out and he hasn't been able to punch the same ever since with his jab regressing pretty heavily and unable to use his straight right well BUT still able to wins high level fights.

He was physically supreme at 25 also but his style was far too overly defensive given his stamina gifts.

His uppercut has come on strong at the end of his career never was a strong point.

 

Hard to answer really.

Fury fought two completely different fights against Wlad in 2015 and against Wilder 2nd fight 2020.

I'd say Wlad because it was before he went off the rails and left the sport for a few years which took a toll on his body. I'd defo argue though Fury in 2020 was much better still than the one that fought Usyk twice in 2024.

 

Wilder 2

 

He looked fantastic. Came in very fit in the 3rd fight you can see he gained more body fat again.

 

I think he was pretty similar for the Wlad fight and the first Wilder fight. He found his confidence in the second Wilder fight and I don’t buy that he’d permanently damaged himself by being fat and drinking, etc.

 

I think his body fat is a bit misleading yeah. He is clearly a fit guy despite carrying quite a bit of fat.

I think in Wilder 3 he just wanted to take Wilder out anyway and he knew he could.

 

Vlad wasn't clean when he fought Fury and vice versa. None of these guys are clean. If you think Joshua is a clean athlete I have a SNAC hat to sell you.

Fury has the rare distinction of having two prime periods with two different styles. Each time he employed a style that most people (certainly myself) didn't think would work against the fighter he was set to face. To dominate Klitschko in his back yard with a jab was something no one bet on. To bulldoze Wilder, maul him, and stop him was the same.

I think the two primes are roughly equal, but they are very different. The Wilder II version is more experienced, and is a LEAN 273 which is something we would never see again from Fury. Still, he crawled out of a hole I didn't think he could to get to that point, and that surely cost him something.

 

This seems to be the common thought toward PED's in sports, but in boxing it's willfully ignorant. You've got fighters walking around parading SNAC merch. They're not trying to hide it. Drug testing is 90% a tool of negotiation and politicking for the battle outside the ring, and 10% about finding banned substances.

The idea that boxing of all sports can regulate itself and "catch" PED users is ridiculous.

 

Explain to me the purpose of banning a boxer for PED use, knowing that I believe all elite fighters are on some sort of substance.

You're punishing the fighters with less sophisticated doping regimens. It's a system that favors money fighters with big promotion. It's a way to view the world in black and white and believe you're carrying out some sort of justice when it's plainly obvious that nothing of the sort is happening.

Do you think fighters wearing SNAC merch are clean athletes?

 

If you think SNAC fighters aren't doping then you're either lying for the sake of making a point, or ignorant. Either way, it's not worth my time.