TYSON FURY vs. KEVIN JOHNSON, Belfast Ireland, 12/1/12

[keithmoonhangover]

It amazes me that some people are criticizing Fury for not stopping Johnson. The second best heavyweight in the world couldn't stop or even hurt him.

I thought Fury boxed well tonight.

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[Ketchel]

Easy for Fury. Showed a lot of postives tonight. High workrate, fighting to a plan, good concentration. Don't know what the crowd wanted. Fury beat Johnson as well as Vitali did. Impressive whatever way you want to look at it.

[Cyclops]

Shut out for Fury, apart from the point deduction. Good measured performance from Fury, went pretty much exactly how most people predicted. I'm still not convinced about Fury, but I didn't expect him to knock Johnson out. Johnson just doesn't engage enough for that to happen. By no means a classic fight, but very impressive to outbox him so clearly. Well done Fury.

[Asterix]

It amazes me that some people are criticizing Fury for not stopping Johnson. The second best heavyweight in the world couldn't stop or even hurt him.

I thought Fury boxed well tonight.

Me too. I'm not sold on Fury, but he's clearly better than I thought. I wasn't expecting Johnson to win this, but I was expecting to see some struggles for Fury. In the end, he found it easy. I'm interested to see who will be his next opponent.

[HomicideHenry]

Kudos to Johnson, what conditioning he has to of eaten rights and lefts like he did in that fight. Fury did rock him once or twice, but the game plan wasn't to go chase for the knockout, but to go rounds and show masterful boxing. Alot of people say it was a boring fight, but imho what more do you expect from a nineteen fight professional whose 24 years of age, when Vitali couldn't stop Johnson? I thought Fury could of pulled the stoppage, and who knows had he put on the flash he might, but at the end of the day we had a very wide (couldn't get much wider than that) decision over a respected heavyweight. I like to see Fury face Tomasz Adamek next, which seems likely considering Peter Fury has said he wants to have Tyson fight in New York on March 17th Saint Patrick's Day, and Adamek has a huge fan base in New York and New Jersey because of the tremendous Polish populations, and being a former title holder at 175, 195 and having fought Vitali. A win over Adamek would also mean no need for Arreola, since Adamek's beaten him regardless of the Stiverne/Arreola bout.