I'd agree with this. Credit to Fury and especially his uncle for coming up with that gameplan, which exploited both Wlad's inherent weaknesses (cautious, rather gunshy, and very robotic and infexlible), and the fact that at almost 40, he was going to struggle against a faster of foot moving target.Tanzio wrote:Actually, that is exactly what happens when you cannot pull the trigger any longer. The comparison to SSM v FMJ was accurate. You lose a percentage of your reflexes as you age which will generally lead to second guessing yourself. Combine that with WKlit's keen awareness of his chin issues and you have the ingredients that Fury successfully cooked the W with.SNG wrote:I don't see how Klitschko's age comes into it. Tyson didn't fight at a pace that would trouble Wlad, or use a game plan that took his age into concern. Look at the punch stats, Wlad was made to be apprehensive by Fury. I don't remember the round but there was a point where Wlad threw the right and stopped it short and withdrew it, he was simply unsure of himself, and that isn't age, Fury did that by standing off and making Wlad be the one to initiate.
I'm not picking either of those choices.
Age had a lot to do with the outcome.
Part of the reason that Fury himself landed so little, was that he couldn't risk standing still for too long, in case Wlad landed with something big. I honestly believe that had he stood still more, Wlad would have started clipping him, and it wouldn't take many of those piledriver jabs to make Fury wobble. He fought the right fight. Could maybe have thrown more jabs from range, but overall, very clever tactics.
