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Undefeated, fight anyone anywhere, switch hitter, more bottle than any heavyweight ever, overcome adversity and illness, wins titles in countries that have terrible records of dodgy verdicts, no bollocks with Tyson he is what he is.
Agree he’s not the best ever but to say nowhere near is laughable.
When he beats AJ and Usyk, he’d have wiped the floor with his generation and retire unbeaten.

And thats all you can do. Not his fault he fought in a different era to great fighters who came before him but weirdly the fact that he cant (wouldnt?) beat them is used as a stick to beat him with. I root for the fella, rag or not hes an entertainer, both in and out of the ring.
 
Undefeated, fight anyone anywhere, switch hitter, more bottle than any heavyweight ever, overcome adversity and illness, wins titles in countries that have terrible records of dodgy verdicts, no bollocks with Tyson he is what he is.
Agree he’s not the best ever but to say nowhere near is laughable.
When he beats AJ and Usyk, he’d have wiped the floor with his generation and retire unbeaten.
He’s got Jesus on his side and that’s cheating in my book ;-)
 
Undefeated, fight anyone anywhere, switch hitter, more bottle than any heavyweight ever, overcome adversity and illness, wins titles in countries that have terrible records of dodgy verdicts, no bollocks with Tyson he is what he is.
Agree he’s not the best ever but to say nowhere near is laughable.
When he beats AJ and Usyk, he’d have wiped the floor with his generation and retire unbeaten.
He's a bloody good boxer, i suppose it's not fault that the heavyweight division is and has been a joke for years.
 
He’s got Jesus on his side and that’s cheating in my book ;-)
why would jesus get involved in who wins a fight , aren't we all supposedly his children ? if you had two boys and they had a fight would you help one win ?
 
You can't compare in that way though, they were different bloody generations, I've watched boxing all my life, nothing to do with being caught up in the hype, boxing has changed (not even saying for the better) you can't blame the boxers as it isn't even down to them who they fight nowadays.
He will fight anyone. He’s not fussed who it is.
 
Who are the elite fighters on Mike Tyson's record? You can only fight what's out there.

I suspect Fury would beat any of the greats listed, simply due to size differential but then again if those fighters were around today, they'd probably also be bigger. So impossible to tell really but Fury would certainly be up there in the discussion IMO.
Surely your not comparing who tyson has fought to who tyson fury has fought ! Get what your saying about proper elite fighters but really good fighters such as tucker Micheal spinks tyrell Biggs Trevor berbick bonecrusher smith Mitch green was no mug either and don’t forget Lewis didn’t want a part of Tyson until he was well past his self by date as did Holyfield aswell . Tyson fury could be the best of his generation but beating wilder and vlad isn’t gonna put him with the greats . The promoters are the ones which are ruining boxing because they are that scared of a fighter getting beat they would rather fight bums to make more money which harms boxing and we then don’t see the fights which we should . Here is my list on who should fight who atm
Usyk - Joshua renatch - usyk wins
Whyte - walin . Whyte wins
Whyte - fury - fury wins
Usyk - fury - usyk wins .
this should happen next .
 
There are no great fighters in the heavyweight division in my option, haven’t been since the 90s
There has always been great fighters in the heavyweight division, the main problem is when they introduced the cruiserweight division it completely ruined the heavyweight division, and most organisation put in a minimum weight restriction to fight for belts, when you look closer a lot of the all-time greats like Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier and many others would weigh either dead on or just too much for cruiserweights these days but not enough for heavyweight.

It gets banded about "he got knocked down by a cruiserweight" by idiots about various heavyweights, and because fighters between cruiserweights and heavyweight aren't allowed to fight at their natural weight, most ,of those smaller heavyweights are not as quick or lack effective stamina to trouble the giants these days.

Tyson and Ali, Foreman and Holmes were all big heavyweights back in the day now they're quite small for heavyweight bar Foreman, who is still fairly big but not massive like peeps thought of him in the old days.

There has always been giant heavyweights in the past and good ones too but the likes of Marciano who is criminally underated, with his stamina speed toughness and brutalising could've chopped down the likes of Lewis, both Klitschko's and Fury too, people don't realise Marciano was incredibly hard to hit cleanly but he was ... Tyson Fury is world class and at his current level would give anyone in history problems win, lose or draw.

Having said that though the likes of Frazier and Marciano or Dempsey are the brawlers are the types who used to brutalise the big giants in those days, Tyson Fury's footwork, hand-speed dark art/dirty tricks and ring IQ with his towering size and heart would defo cause problems for most in boxing history.

Not saying he would be one of the absolute greats but styles make fights.
 
Surely your not comparing who tyson has fought to who tyson fury has fought ! Get what your saying about proper elite fighters but really good fighters such as tucker Micheal spinks tyrell Biggs Trevor berbick bonecrusher smith Mitch green was no mug either and don’t forget Lewis didn’t want a part of Tyson until he was well past his self by date as did Holyfield aswell . Tyson fury could be the best of his generation but beating wilder and vlad isn’t gonna put him with the greats . The promoters are the ones which are ruining boxing because they are that scared of a fighter getting beat they would rather fight bums to make more money which harms boxing and we then don’t see the fights which we should . Here is my list on who should fight who atm
Usyk - Joshua renatch - usyk wins
Whyte - walin . Whyte wins
Whyte - fury - fury wins
Usyk - fury - usyk wins .
this should happen next .
lol you think usyk can beat fury ?
 
Undefeated, fight anyone anywhere, switch hitter, more bottle than any heavyweight ever, overcome adversity and illness, wins titles in countries that have terrible records of dodgy verdicts, no bollocks with Tyson he is what he is.
Agree he’s not the best ever but to say nowhere near is laughable.
When he beats AJ and Usyk, he’d have wiped the floor with his generation and retire unbeaten.

more bottle than any other heavyweight ever ? As brave as they come but he’s not the first to have that amount of heart and bottle

I’d watch the Thriller in Manila
 
There has always been great fighters in the heavyweight division, the main problem is when they introduced the cruiserweight division it completely ruined the heavyweight division, and most organisation put in a minimum weight restriction to fight for belts, when you look closer a lot of the all-time greats like Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano, Joe Frazier and many others would weigh either dead on or just too much for cruiserweights these days but not enough for heavyweight.

It gets banded about "he got knocked down by a cruiserweight" by idiots about various heavyweights, and because fighters between cruiserweights and heavyweight aren't allowed to fight at their natural weight, most ,of those smaller heavyweights are not as quick or lack effective stamina to trouble the giants these days.

Tyson and Ali, Foreman and Holmes were all big heavyweights back in the day now they're quite small for heavyweight bar Foreman, who is still fairly big but not massive like peeps thought of him in the old days.

There has always been giant heavyweights in the past and good ones too but the likes of Marciano who is criminally underated, with his stamina speed toughness and brutalising could've chopped down the likes of Lewis, both Klitschko's and Fury too, people don't realise Marciano was incredibly hard to hit cleanly but he was ... Tyson Fury is world class and at his current level would give anyone in history problems win, lose or draw.

Having said that though the likes of Frazier and Marciano or Dempsey are the brawlers are the types who used to brutalise the big giants in those days, Tyson Fury's footwork, hand-speed dark art/dirty tricks and ring IQ with his towering size and heart would defo cause problems for most in boxing history.

Not saying he would be one of the absolute greats but styles make fights.

when the first giants started coming in like Bose and Lewis it was said we should have super heavyweight division

always thought Herbie Hide was a cracking boxer but just too small
 
From what I’ve read and what I have posted no one is slagging Tyson fury off infact I think he is a great ambassador for the sport and is a very good world champion but not an atg which is no slight on fury as there aren’t many truly elite fighters about . Wilder has turned to be one of the most hyped. Champions ever alongside Joshua and fury as he has done with wilder would destroy Joshua very easily but I do think the usyk fight with fury would be one fight he wants if he is to cement his legacy as beating usyk would be the best win of his career .
 
It's pretty impossible to compare fury to the all time greats because great boxers are shown when they fight other greats. Its not his fault, but he's never even fought a very good opponent, yet alone a great one. A 58 year old, complacent from a decade of terrible opponents, lesser of the two klitschko brothers is probably the top opponent he's fought and that's not a particularly high level. There just aren't any opponents to prove much against and hasn't been for a long time, much like when the brothers owned the division.
 
It's pretty impossible to compare fury to the all time greats because great boxers are shown when they fight other greats. Its not his fault, but he's never even fought a very good opponent, yet alone a great one. A 58 year old, complacent from a decade of terrible opponents, lesser of the two klitschko brothers is probably the top opponent he's fought and that's not a particularly high level. There just aren't any opponents to prove much against and hasn't been for a long time, much like when the brothers owned the division.
Nobody else wanted to go anywhere near Klitschko until Fury went into his backyard and humiliated him. Joshua was only ever interested in Wlad after Fury had broken him, and he still nearly got knocked out
 
Some of you really hate Joshua don't you? Some extremely OTT comments about the guy.


Anyway, Fury showed Wilder what was what. He only really needs that one more win against Usyk/Joshua and it's well within his grasp.
 
when the first giants started coming in like Bose and Lewis it was said we should have super heavyweight division

always thought Herbie Hide was a cracking boxer but just too small
Herbie Hide was always entertainment I remember enjoying pleny of his fights, think Vitali Klitschko broke him he was beaten by Bowe but regained his confidence he was never quite the same after Vitali beat him.

I'm a believer in keeping the cruiserweight division but also letting cruiserweights optionally fight at heavyweight if they want, while still in the cruiserweight limit I mean if Marciano or Frazier or Louis were forced to fight weighting 214 then they would be extremely sluggish, it defo ruined the heavyweight division the strict rules I get they're concerned about safety especially after McClellan Watson and others... but both Louis and Marciano can be considered top 5 best heavyweights of all time, yet now they aren't even big enough to be actual heavyweights by today's standards it's just plain stupid.

I honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Usyk would've been even better against Joshua if allowed to weigh less,. He's got the right frame size to adapt at heavyweight like Holyfield did, someone naturally smaller in build would start having problems maintaining stamina anything beyond 200 pounds.
 
Lewis was a far better boxer than Fury. You also really need to watch some Fraiser, Forman, Tyson and Ali fights if you think Fury is a contender for GOAT. Hes hasnt even beaten all those is his division yet.
Lewis certainly hit harder but I’m not sure at all that he was a better technician than Fury, whose boxing skillset is vastly underrated
 
when the first giants started coming in like Bose and Lewis it was said we should have super heavyweight division

always thought Herbie Hide was a cracking boxer but just too small
Herbie should have been a cruiserweight, might have cleaned up in that division. He was also a bit of a loose cannon who brought fellow nutters like Tyson’s old mate Crocodile Fitch into his inner circle as a hype man
 

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