What does Wilder mean to Fury's legacy?

Cojimar 1946 · Dec 4, 2025 at 11:21 AM

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Well, the trilogy means a lot, really.
Once Fury beat him, everyone claimed he was easy to beat or that it validated their opinion of him being easy to beat.
Fact is that nobody beat him though and AJ avoided him clearly. At the very least Wilder was considered a threat to AJ, which means he couldn't have been an easy win.

The narrative you just need to be able to box to beat him is downright ridiculous. Ortiz got KO'd twice while outboxing him. The Polish guy who outboxed Adamek got KO'd while outboxing him. Stiverne was a good boxer and got beaten twice. Arreola was also a pretty good boxer and got beaten, though was quite old then. Helenius was a good boxer, a class above the fat Pole pressure fighter, and got KO'd.

So Fury wins. Then Wilder is nearing forty and gets beaten by Parker and Zhang and suddenly he was always going to lose to everyone with some skill. But it simply isn't what happened. What happened is that good boxers could win rounds until they got KO'd.

Wilder was very dangerous and Fury faced him three times, nobody else did that. He almost got KO'd twice despite having the best defence in the HW league until Usyk came up. That alone tells you that most people are getting bombed unless they can take Wilder out first.

Parker actually dodged Wilder until he was KO'd and old. I have little doubt he'd have been taken out when Wilder was younger. Look what Fabio just did. Zhang I give a shot to take Wilder out when Wilder was younger, maybe he does it. But Zhang has rare power and chin. If he gasses Wilder has the advantage though.

It's possible AJ would have beaten him, Povetkin may have. We give Zhang a chance. But who else? Maybe an upset here and there if he fought everyone. But he was dangerous, no denying it, simply because of the speed and punch.
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The era was filled with huge punchers though
Joshua
Zhang
Bakole
Wardley
Dubois

All those guys could be rated as dangerous due to their huge power so how is Wilder unique in that respect?

Moreover Joshua didn't fight any of these guys except Dubois who knocked him out.

like a boss · Dec 4, 2025 at 12:23 PM

Does this forum ever get tired of Fury hate threads? Seems not.

The guy continues to live rent free in so many heads.

Kiwi Casual · Dec 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM

If Wilder knocks him out it goes up.

The evil side of me wants to see it happen.

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