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Any thoughts as to how this would have panned out?........I don't think it would have gone the distance but I'm struggling to pick a winner

ade the grenade wrote:Any thoughts as to how this would have panned out?........I don't think it would have gone the distance but I'm struggling to pick a winner

Easy pick for me. Bruno overhand right...timber inside 4 rounds!!

Still far too early to tell. Fury's been rocked, but has shown very good recuperative abilities. His chin is underrated at the moment.

Bruno KO 1

Imagine how Fury would react if he got tagged (and he would) by a Bruno right hand.
You don't have to imagine too hard. Just recall little Stevie Cunningham putting the lumbering Fury on his back with a wind-up right.
Bruno would destroy Fury inside 3 rounds.

Once Chisora gets the late stoppage not many will be picking Fury in this.

Tyson has been down a few times but has yet to actually face a credible, A-Grade heavyweight puncher and Bruno was definitely a bona fide banger. So the Bruno win does look plausible, not least because Frank had genuine one-shot finishing power.... just one mistake by Tyson and that massive overhand right could drop him for good.

I suppose there's a case for saying that Tyson is a massive lad and he has always got back up. But Frank liked a target and he flattened plenty of tall, properly heavy men. Ekuland, Coetzee, Bugner were all big fellas and got properly banjaxed. Sheer size was no protection against that kind of huge power.

Bruno also had a mean streak and when he was in the right mood he was not Mr. Cuddles and he definitely hit to hurt. I could see Tyson making the mistake of twisting Bruno's melon and finding himself in with an angry, Wandsworth enforcer.

To be fair, Tyson is 25 and not prime yet and may kick-on and show a lot more focus and ability. But my suspicion is that a fired-up Bruno cracks him early and with concussive results.

Bruno KO1, extremely brutally, Tyson Fury probably paralyzed & out like Ribalta.

Was never a Bruno fan but the big man would have flattened Tyson inside 3 rounds. Frank's jab alone would cause Tyson problems never mind the right hand that would take his head off.

Both very flawed fighters really. Watch any Bruno fight when he beefed up over 17 stones and he was lumbering and not really ideal weight for a 12 round fight. (Yes I know he out scored Lewis - marginally - into the mid-rounds and outpointed a drugged up/mental McCall.) Tyson however is even more flawed. Chinny or defensively open, take your pick! I think it would have been a messy fight. Bruno by way of brute strength and better fundamentals. Bruno TKO6.

How intimidated would big frank be is a question in this one?

Agreed with Polecat about Bruno's weight....at his best at around 230.

punchoutsb wrote:Still far too early to tell. Fury's been rocked, but has shown very good recuperative abilities. .

Vs guys without anywhere NEAR the power of Bruno. Frank KO 3.

dempseyfire wrote:

punchoutsb wrote:Still far too early to tell. Fury's been rocked, but has shown very good recuperative abilities. .

Vs guys without anywhere NEAR the power of Bruno. Frank KO 3.

He's still never been knocked out. Down and out are two different things.

punchoutsb wrote: He's still never been knocked out. Down and out are two different things.

Historically, fighters down heavily versus extremely poor opponents have a record of 100% failure. Fury is doomed, even in this abysmal landscape.

Bruno wasn't a world class puncher, but he was very heavy handed & he would have splattered Fury.

Bruno was no great shakes himself, but he's a league above Fury.

Fury is probably one of the most protected fighters with a high profile. He has only 3 significant fights to his name really, those being decisioning an overweight Chisora, outboxing the tame Johnson, and having an up-and-downer with light-punching Cunningham. I personally feel he's an accident waiting to happen.