Klitschko didn't lay a glove on Fury. Fury schooled him as he would have done in a rematch. I'm not a big boxing expert but my eyes tell me Fury is a far better fighter.
I don't particularly like Fury but as someone who has suffered with mental health problems surely you can see that he is someone who has struggled with demons & it isn't an act to get out of fights.
Would Joshua have got up from the punch Wilder hit Fury with? I think you know the answer to that.
I'm struggling with your assertion that Joshua has the best resume in heavyweight boxing. He ducked fighting Wilder numerous times. Klitschko (who Fury beat easily 18 months before Joshua beat him) & Parker (who Whyte beat) are his biggest 2 wins. I'm not sure how great a resume that is but if you say it's the best who am I to disagree!
Fury didn't hurt Wlad once in that fight other than the headbutt in the 5th round that caused a cut. It was a tactical fight, he spoiled Wlad's work by taking away his jab, with his feints and herky jerky movement(Jersey Joe Walcott did it much much better) to make it hard to time him or land anything flush. Wlad was too comfy setting all his power shots up behind his jab(something he learned with Manny Steward if I remember right), without it he became gunshy. That wasn't working in the rematch because he fought like a fighter that was willing to take some to give some and Fury doesn't have enough on his shots to win in a firefight with Wlad. Fury still ducked that rematch IMO and many other people say the same. The rematch would have been a different fight either way.
AJ got up from Wlad's best punch, he's never been knocked out. The only people who've hurt AJ are decent HW punchers. Wilder has been rocked and floored by journeymen. Fury put down heavily by a cruiserweight. Fury rode that Wilder punch anyway, so he didn't take the full brunt of it, that's one of his best assets(the head movement). He was never unconscious, he was gassed, you could tell by how clear his eyes were when he opened them(immediate eye contact with the ref) and how his legs were after he got up. Go back and look at Fury's legs after he got up from the cruiserweight(Steve Cunningham) knocking him down(wobbly, flat feet, holding on for dear life, leaning all over him etc), compare that with him bouncing on his toes immediately taking it to Wilder. Secondly, I think AJ catches Wilder first and knocks him out because his ring IQ and boxing ability is much higher, that fight wouldn't be going 12 rounds.
"AJ ducked Wilder..." No he didn't. It's not even up for debate anymore. Why did Wilder's team ex communicate Lou DiBella for getting Wilder to that DAZN meeting where they offered a 125m multi-fight deal? Why did Wilder admit he was offered more money to fight AJ? The $50m offer from the PBC side before it was a ruse, they knew AJ couldn't fight on BT(due to his Sky contract) and that's where half the money was coming from. Why else wouldn't they even send a contract over? Sending a contract is the bare minimum you'd expect when someone asks for it and they wouldn't do it. His manager Finkle is quoted as saying "He's just a baby" when people asked if he was going to fight Wlad(who knocked him out cold in sparring with headgear on) despite being a world champion with 35 or so fights to his name at the time. His resume and how he was moved carefully up the ranks points to him being a protected fighter(it's what the PBC do). Wilder ducked AJ and he ducked Whyte for that matter too.
Make it make sense to me, how a fitter, hungrier Wlad(Fury's best win) is worth so much less for AJ, than it is for Fury? He fought him in his backyard? Germany was just his adopted back yard, he is Ukrainian. That is easily offset by AJ being far less experienced when he took that Wlad fight than Fury was. Not to mention AJ stopped Wlad, so that removes the "home judges" argument. Wlad was udefeated? No he wasn't, more than that, Wlad always came back strong from a loss. For the rest, I've been through it, 3 training camps in 18 months(the normal rate for Wlad, fighting twice a year). He was about to turn 40 when Fury faced him(4 months) and had just turned 41 when AJ fought him(1 month earlier). The idea that he got old over night is BS peddled by Fury fans, he was better in the AJ fight and visibly in better shape. In fact, in both fights, he was in better shape than most 35 year old HW's.
Whyte(more experienced as a pro than AJ at the time, had a win over him in the amateurs), Parker(Whyte nearly got stopped in that last round), Wlad, Povetkin(younger than Wlad when Fury faced him, showed how dangerous he was against Whyte), Pulev(schooled Chisora with his boxing, who's used as some kind of measuring stick by too many these days... same age as Wlad when Fury fought him) , Ruiz Jr(beat Parker in many peoples eyes despite not getting the decision in New Zealand for the vacant WBO).
Take any of Fury's wins outside of Wlad and Wilder and AJ's best 5 wins are worth more than anything on Fury's resume. In terms of rankings of opponents when they fought, it's even more in AJ's favour, Breazeale(voluntary) was undefeated and top 10 when AJ beat him if I remember right, Takam was top 10 with the IBF and a mandatary when AJ beat him. All you're doing is making excuses to tear down every oponent AJ has faced but I could tear Fury's resume down much easier with the same standards. As for Wilder's resume, even you must know that's not worth discussing(it's poor).
