What's that got to do with Fury? How does that mean his win was 'barely scraped'? Load of nonsense.
What’s that even based on though? Styles make fights which is why the Joshua fight was so different. Neither Joshua or Fury should be downplayed for their wins against Wlad but the idea he was a completely different fighter within the space of a year and a half is insane, especially at his age because if anything you'd expect the fighter to get worst, not better.
It ties directly to my point that his rabid fan base who treat him as the 2nd coming of Christ because he edged out a fighter putting in a garbage performance like he pulled a miracle and one for the ages upset out of the bag is misplaced. Nobody even talked about him before that fight, all of a sudden after that he's the greatest boxer ever to have lived and would knock out Tyson inside of 20 seconds, it's nauseating.
It was no garbage performance. At a pure boxing level it was an elite performance. Fury went in with a gameplan and executed it to perfection... exactly like he did vs Wilder in his most recent fight which was a completely different style. This shows his range as a great champion.
He looked different because, quite literally, he was different. He was the lightest he had been in nearly a decade when he returned to fight Joshua. He was used to knocking out bums off the back of a stiff jab for most of that time. He had been mechanical in his approach, not required to change anything, not having to consider his opponents plan. He was given a rude awakening by Fury and was clearly completely unprepared for the fight. It's a shame he never got his rematch. I would've been a far closer fight.
It was one of the worst performances of Wlad's career, you can't romanticize it to make Fury come out better. He went to points against a worse version of Wlad that Joshua knocked down twice.
Not sure how much "worse" he was. Against Joshua, he was about two years older and accumulated something like 15-16 months out of the ring. Both of those are big factors when considering Wlad's age. Also, Joshua was very close to losing that fight. Credit to him for gutting it out and winning in a great fight but Fury totally befuddled Wlad and executed his game plan to perfection. It was terrible, but so are many of Mayweather's fights but he got the dominant win in a high pressure situation on the road while Wlad was reigning and on top.
Also worth noting Fury did him in Germany on the scorecards. Pretty impressive in itself.
Same. He looks in good shape though. Povetkin looks soft, I think he's come to lie down
Povetkin also had corona virus not long ago I don’t think he wins tonight but I hope he does.
Whyte. He’ll stick to the game plan this time knowing that Povetkin is to dangerous to switch off again.
I went for some knee physio in June ‘19 at Loughborough Uni. Whyte turned up with his entourage and my appointment got delayed for an hour.
Hoping for a stoppage in 7 or 8.
He talks some massive amounts of shit, never gives it a rest. Was always a big mouthed dickhead. Obviously a lot of boxers are like this, but his gobshiting out weighs his boxing ability, when it needs to be the other way round really
He talks shit without much charisma or character.
Probably says a lot for the general shit-talking by boxers but I honestly hadn’t noticed Whyte being any worse than the average
Because he’s been built up to be some kind of PPV star when he’s not really that good, £20 a pop will get folk riled up..
Might stream the Whyte fight but not interested in seeing Ted Cheeseman defend punches with his face.
Actually I reckon he’s good value in terms of entertainment, relatively speaking. Not that I’d pay money for tonight but I don’t have to so I’m not judging him on that
I’ll be firmly in the Povetkin corner tonight but he doesn’t look in great shape, hopefully he can use his boxing ability though and get the win.
It’ll be over for Whyte if Povetkin wins
Am sure Sky will still cart him out as often as they can
Looking a lot like the first fight. Can Whyte stay disciplined enough or will he get dragged into fighting on the inside
