No. Maybe if Joshua was still undefeated. But it'll be the biggest heavyweight fight ever for the uk.
Depends on how old you are, I was born way after the days of Ali, Liston, Frazer and Foreman. I can remember Lewis vs Tyson, but I think the AJ Fury fight would eclipse that, mainly because both fighters are in their prime and have all the belts
If Fury beats Wilder in a trilogy fight, and AJ further distances himself from his loss to Ruiz by getting another win, then I think it would be unbelievably big. Since we're all hardcore fans here, I actually think we don't fully appreciate how big the Wilder vs Fury & Ruiz vs AJ rivalries have been. Both rivalries have received a ton of attention on sports networks and even on conventional straight news platforms. And this was just the tip of the iceberg compared to the amount of hype it got on social media platforms. Two days after Ruiz beat Joshua, I came into work and heard a group of ~20 year old girls talking about the fight in the cafeteria. I saw my aunt, who is in her 60s post a meme about the bout on Facebook. People who had no prior interest in the sport were suddenly quizzing me about who I thought would win a rematch and morning radio DJ's referenced it between playing 'Janie's Got a Gun' and 'Paradise City' The Fury vs Wilder saga reached a similar crescendo. You know the heavyweight division is white hot when people are referencing title fights during basketball podcasts or in the middle of fan theory videos about the next book in the Game of Thrones series or in live-streams by ex-Muslims living in Canada. We're used to being a semi-fringe sport, a sport where the 3rd fight between Rafael Marquez and Israel Vasquez drew less than 5,500 spectators, so it feels foreign when the sport is suddenly mainstream. Fury vs Joshua would be the zenith of an epic upswing in boxing's popularity. Try to enjoy it.
