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thereverend wrote: ↑02 Jun 2020, 07:00 It's a hard question I was just thinking about this. Klitschko at the time was an unstoppable force of nature. Everyone talks about what a boring fight it was and they may be right. I was enthralled, enjoying every second of it because Fury was beating an unbeatable fighter. We'd been down the hype road with Klitschko opponents before, I didn't regard Fury as highly as some, hadn't seen many of his fights. In America. After the Cunningham fight I considered him, probably similar to the way the press considered Ali when he fought Liston the first time. An overrated clown. I figured I'd be watching a one-sided beat down and I was thrilled it wasn't. It completely opened up the heavyweight division after it'd been stagnant for years. Excited about all the matchups that still haven't happened. My heart wants to go with the Wilder fight because it was so great but the Klitschko win was the big one.

The atmosphere where I watched the Wilder Fury fight was strange. I watched it at the mall on a movie theater, same place I'd watched the first one. There were a lot of people at the first one, fight fans, and the crowd was split evenly. Wasn't a particularly loud or drunken group. The 2nd time the theater was crammed, lots of young black people and they were loudly rooting for Wilder. The end of the fight was so sudden anyway, in the theater it was like Fury had dropped an enormous fart-bomb that all the people could smell at the same time. The silence, the expressions, they all expected a Wilder KO.

The one small group of drunk surly white people were cheering loudly for Fury, I was busy yelling my usual vitrol at the referee and Wilder's corner but in part of my mind I wondered if they were going to get shanked or shot. It was that sort of moment. Magical.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑02 Jun 2020, 20:06 They are complementary. Wlad was the bigger name with a greater legacy, but the Wilder win was way more emphatic. Two different approaches completely but both nice wins. Showed variety.

Shhhh wrote: ↑03 Jun 2020, 06:12 Wlad was the bigger upset but wilder was the bigger story and more enjoyable

Cap wrote: ↑05 Jun 2020, 13:05 Says something about Fury. Klitschko was past his best before date when he fought Fury. You could see it in the Jennings fight. Still, that terrible exhibition in which less than a hundred punches landed, was probably Fury's best win. The win over Wilder was one over a guy fans had been making fun of for years and he had to fight him twice to get a win. Aside from them, Fury has not beaten anyone who would have made the undercard even twenty or thirty years ago. The current heavyweight crop is one of the most pathetic bunch of clumsy behemoths in the long history of the sport. Just a freak show. An old freak show at that. Just one guy in the top twenty is under 30 years of age. At least six are 35 or older. Not too bad if you're talking ballplayers or golfers. Sad in a tough sport like boxing.

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑05 Jun 2020, 22:53 As terrible as the wlad fight was, he's the bigger resume win.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑06 Jun 2020, 00:30

Onetimeonly wrote: ↑05 Jun 2020, 22:53 As terrible as the wlad fight was, he's the bigger resume win.

It'll be considered the bigger win in 30 years time when it's mostly just people that are aware of the records of Wilder and Wlad, and didn't watch the fights opinion on it.

Cap wrote: ↑05 Jun 2020, 13:05 Says something about Fury. Klitschko was past his best before date when he fought Fury. You could see it in the Jennings fight. Still, that terrible exhibition in which less than a hundred punches landed, was probably Fury's best win. The win over Wilder was one over a guy fans had been making fun of for years and he had to fight him twice to get a win. Aside from them, Fury has not beaten anyone who would have made the undercard even twenty or thirty years ago. The current heavyweight crop is one of the most pathetic bunch of clumsy behemoths in the long history of the sport. Just a freak show. An old freak show at that. Just one guy in the top twenty is under 30 years of age. At least six are 35 or older. Not too bad if you're talking ballplayers or golfers. Sad in a tough sport like boxing.

Cap wrote: ↑05 Jun 2020, 13:05 Says something about Fury.... The win over Wilder was one over a guy fans had been making fun of for years and he had to fight him twice to get a win.