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There are no Alis, Fraziers, or Foremans around now, but if you could design the ideal fighter to beat Tyson Fury what would he look like? I'm thinking a smaller guy who's quick with his hands and feet, has good defensive skills, can take a punch and has good power. Back in the day you always knew some young stallion was coming up through the ranks who would have the right set of tools to beat the reigning champion. Unfortunately, today that champion is the lumbering Fury and the class of contenders if pitiful.

Someone like Usyk but with better punching power, anyway even with his mediocre power in HW i'd give him 50% chances against Fury. I think that prime Mike Tyson would knock him out. Prime Klitschkos and Lennox would likely beat him too.

Probably somebody you won't even expect, but I wouldn't be surprised if Usyk can beat him if he gets his shot.

Somone who has good punching power; good foot work to cutoff the ring; goes good to the body.

Pressing volume style. Fury doesnt throw much

Cutting ring off is imperative

Joe Joyce if he was a bit/a lot faster.

I'd give the best chance to The Klits and Lennox Lewis-but I wouldn't bet on them.

a 7 feet tall 280 pound version of sonny liston with a 98 inch reach and 18 inch fists!

slapped on this the chin of ollie mccall and you got certain death on the canvas.

gilgamesh wrote: ↑25 Jan 2021, 16:48 Probably somebody you won't even expect, but I wouldn't be surprised if Usyk can beat him if he gets his shot.

please share how you'd imagine usyk possibly beating fury?

fury-usyk would be an awkward as hell fight, i think fury is all wrong for usyk, like a giant version who can do a lot of the things he can

If Fury stays focused he can beat anybody active now.
If anything beats him it will be Covid. If he stays inactive
too long it will cause problems.
Lennox Lewis could have beat him. Great boxing skills and a heavy right hand.
No on the Klits. Tyson had a punchers chance earlier in his career. Later he'd be a duck.
A lot of people just love Usyk and he's a good fighter but I don't see him beating Fury.
Too injury prone and just too small. Not enough whack for the task.

Well he said Cunnigham gave him a.lot of trouble because he was small and was hard to pin him down. So I would say someone who is short and has fast feet is strong and has an excellent overhand right. Something like a mix of Marcianos awkward overhand, tysons hand and foot speed and general.movement and Tua s toughness and strength. But this combo is unbeatable now that i think of it.

adislav123 wrote: ↑25 Jan 2021, 22:24

gilgamesh wrote: ↑25 Jan 2021, 16:48 Probably somebody you won't even expect, but I wouldn't be surprised if Usyk can beat him if he gets his shot.

please share how you'd imagine usyk possibly beating fury?

By outboxing him.

A slightly better Otto Wallin would have him out of there inside 6 rounds.

A peak Mike Tyson wouldn't need 2.

Either of the Klitschko's if Fury wasn't juicing to high heaven at the time of the Wlad fight.

That drug fuelled performance will be Fury's lasting testament. He was wise to go to all the lengths he did to avoid the rematch clause.

Once Klitschko found out about the drugs, that killed any chance of the rematch. A pity he didn't find out just a few weeks earlier...

Alas, as it stands, the crafty Fury has cheated his way to umpteen £millions. No worries Tyson, you'll be able to drop the act in a couple of years.

It must really be doing your head in at times...

Lennox Lewis style. Period.

This is an obvious answer, but a prime Mike Tyson could rock him.

Thomastearns wrote: ↑26 Jan 2021, 13:07 A peak Mike Tyson wouldn't need 2.

A peak Mike Tyson couldn't stop Smith and Tucker FFS. And needed more than 2 against Thomas, Biggs and Bruno. Fury wouldn't fight as stupid as Berbick and he wouldn't sh!t his pants like Spinks.

Thomastearns wrote: ↑26 Jan 2021, 13:07 A slightly better Otto Wallin would have him out of there inside 6 rounds.

A slightly better Otto Wallin would win 4 rounds instead of 2.

Lets not pretend wilder didnt have him nearly finished in that 1st fight. Joshua could take him out

A great pressure fighter could beat him, a great boxer could beat him, a style in-between could beat him. No particular style.

Winter king wrote: ↑26 Jan 2021, 10:04 Well he said Cunnigham gave him a.lot of trouble because he was small and was hard to pin him down. So I would say someone who is short and has fast feet is strong and has an excellent overhand right. Something like a mix of Marcianos awkward overhand, tysons hand and foot speed and general.movement and Tua s toughness and strength. But this combo is unbeatable now that i think of it.

What the hell does Tyson Fury know about how bigger men would fare against smaller heavyweights, even great ones??? Don't you know there is a widely held belief here that fighters today are bigger and stronger and thus no smaller fighter can possibly win? Next time, please take hours scouring boxrec ledgers for heights, weights and, Ring Magazine rankings because that's all boxing is. And for the love of god, please take off your rose colored glasses about the past before you post again!

(This post is completely sarcastic)

jas80s wrote: ↑26 Jan 2021, 17:45

Winter king wrote: ↑26 Jan 2021, 10:04 Well he said Cunnigham gave him a.lot of trouble because he was small and was hard to pin him down. So I would say someone who is short and has fast feet is strong and has an excellent overhand right. Something like a mix of Marcianos awkward overhand, tysons hand and foot speed and general.movement and Tua s toughness and strength. But this combo is unbeatable now that i think of it.

What the hell does Tyson Fury know about how bigger men would fare against smaller heavyweights, even great ones??? Don't you know there is a widely held belief here that fighters today are bigger and stronger and thus no smaller fighter can possibly win? Next time, please take hours scouring boxrec ledgers for heights, weights and, Ring Magazine rankings because that's all boxing is. And for the love of god, please take off your rose colored glasses about the past before you post again!

(This post is completely sarcastic)

quawi would've smashed fury to bits...

because the dude was supersmall

Prime Lewis, Prime Vitali and Prime Wlad all bash him up.

Loki wrote: ↑26 Jan 2021, 20:41 Prime Lewis, Prime Vitali and Prime Wlad all bash him up.

prime wlad?

you surely joking.

he was as much in his prime and at the same time gunshy versus fury as he ever was. faced a man of his own size the first time. just couldn't cope that his 'jab & lean all over the smaller guy" shitshow didn't work out this time.

lewis & klit vs fury would be helluva fights.