I think he needs to beat at least Usyk as well to go down as an all time great. The division isnāt up to much and heāll beat Joshua by as much as he likes.
Always a risk of walking into one against Joshua, but Iād imagine fury will be a heavy favourite and rightly.
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Tyson Fury Points or Decision 17/10.
Fill your boots.
I dont think Fury will take this fight right now. He should but I sense it will fall apart.
Ideal for AJ, his stock is at an all-time low and his team have just batted it back to Fury by accepting. His team have played a blinder, it will look Furyās fault if this doesnt happen now.
Fury is in a bit of a lose lose here, beat him well, and its Usyk and the fat Mexicanās left overs. Lose and the Vlad and Wilder fights mean nothing.
I dont think Fury wants it. He didnt want to rematch Vlad either.
Joshua improved significantly in his past fight too, and nobody with his power can ever be anything but a risk, albeit youād back wilder to beat Joshua any day of the week, and that is how I see it. Wilder is more powerful, more dangerous and a better boxer than Joshua.
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Also, AJ has the DAZN deal now and this wont be going on that. Presume theyll freeze it
Really is ideal timing, if he loses to Fury, he can do a bullshit world tour on DAZN, or fight UFC guys and youtubers if he so chooses. Heāll know where he stands and thats a boxing career fulfilled.
AJ is underrated. I thought he looked sharp v Usyk but got very tired after the ninth. AJ clearly bettered by the Ukrainian but not outclassed. They say Usyk himself has slowed a lot from his prime in 18 and 19 when he won all the cruiserweight belts.
I wouldāve liked him to come in big and heavy against Usyk to try and blast him out, but I suppose that wouldve likely led to he himself gassing and being knocked out.
Coming in heavy and going for broke early is his best chance of winning in these fights with Fury and Usyk but it is also the most likely way to be the victim of a highlight reel KO.
AJ v Wilder is probably the most exciting fight in boxing from a pure spectacle. Guaranteed KO in that either way.
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Itās all about the money, and either Vs fury is just a bigger fight.
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Hearn has done a remarkable job to get AJ this far. He isnāt a great boxer and he has rlthe personality of a wet paper towel. His career has been plotted brilliantly
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his early career was great fun, just banging fellas out. The Vlad fight frightened the shit out of him. Vlad shouldāve stopped him. Exposed AJās chin and stamina. Started fighting conservatively after that. Stank the pace out in the Joseph Parker fight, tried to rectify that against Ruiz in MSG and got knocked out. He kind of lost what made him good in the first place trying to become a master boxer. He is very stiff but has good fundamentals in his jab and his straight right, thereās just not enough nuance to his game at the very top.
He was done over against Calzaghe Iāve read. Looked a million dollars, made money but shouldāve made a lot more is the impression I had of him. He fought on for a long while as well.
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He just canāt get inside and technical like all the greats, once that was figured out amd you cut down his range heās counting on getting big hits and that wonāt do in title fights, youāve to work a big hit. Fury wonāt walk in to one the majority of the time and even if he did heād get up, like against wilder. Still one of the most remarkable things Iāve seen in any sport. AJ doesnāt get up from that
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He is a gentleman but easily manipulated. He fought the best of them too.
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Thatās it exactly, he is completely a mid-range fighter, jab, jab, right hand from mid-range. He varied it a bit v Usyk going to the body but it is too robotic and Usyk timed him. I can see Fury either using the dark arts, mauling him and getting clubbing shots off inside Andre Ward style, or winning easily with the variety in his jab from distance.
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Its a pity he wasnāt around in this āInstagramā era with that look he had. Wouldāve made a fortune.
Wasnāt robin Reid in the ābeauty and the beastā fight against someone?
Was he a male model as well?
AJ is, as you say, just too stiff. He looked a lot looser actually in his last fight, but heās not got either much of a chin, or much stamina. Heās also a strange cookie. That last fight certainly got inside his head. He is the Frank Bruno of today. Always got a puncherās chance, but just unnatural looking, and you never really expect him to beat a top top boxer, though heās game.
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He was definitely a legit male model. I remember him fighting Calzaghe. Won one of the proper world titles as well. Beat Brian Magee too and heād have been well into his career then.
Im trying to figure who āThe Beastā was on his record. Froch pre nosejob? Henry Wharton was a high level British fighter, but donāt get beast vibes.
Fought renowned Scottish psychpath Kenny Anderson in his last fight. Anderson dropped heavily and nearly beat a young George Groves just before he fought Degale. Reid was a hard, hard man.
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Wasnāt there some German/Eastern Euro lad that held onto a middle/super-middle belt during that era?
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Sven Ottke
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