Fury: UK fans don't understand boxing, Johnson a top 5 Heavyweight

[IamInuit]

I don't even think Kevin Johnson is in the top five heavyweights called Kevin Johnson. There's a fat bloke in my local pub with that name who has a slightly higher punch output after a few jars of stella.

So Briggs moved to England and changed his name?

Allright I admit it, I am old.

I have followed, at great expense, Henry Cooper, Joe Bugner, John Conteh (arguably the best of the lot), Lennox Lewis, David Haye and David Price.

I wouldn't pay two bob to watch Tyson Fury, and his pathetic attempts at hyping up fights are just....

From the eighties onwards the intermediate weights have produced more value, excitement and boxing skill, thankyou nigel, chris, John H, Michael W, Herrol etc. sorry for any I've missed.

No wonder boxing is dying on its feet if dickheads like Fury are in with a shout, just put him in a fairground with Butterbean and have done with it.

I'm older also and my how boxing has changed. Watching boxing every Saturday afternoon on regular tv in the mid to late sixties and through the seventies was a weekly event. The 80's were decent until the end of the decade and the advent of PPV which I believe to be one of the major causes of what we see today. Leonard and Duran fought twice in one year and Floyd and Manny could not make it happen for 50 mil a piece. That is the difference.

Was the world in black and white when you were a kid?

Lol yup. I actually had to get up to turn the channel.

[Master]

Fury is the future even if he is not the most articulate of boxers. Get use to it because he will be around a long time.

[Dark Lord Al]

Fury is the future even if he is not the most articulate of boxers. Get use to it because he will be around a long time.

Fury cant punch and has been floored by a non punching novice , please explain how he is the future ?

[p4pking]

Fury is the future even if he is not the most articulate of boxers. Get use to it because he will be around a long time.

Fury cant punch and has been floored by a non punching novice , please explain how he is the future ?

Well, yesterday was the past. Fury hasn't lost yet, and Master is clearly on glue. Clear things up?

[Vendettos]

Fury is the future even if he is not the most articulate of boxers. Get use to it because he will be around a long time.

Fury cant punch and has been floored by a non punching novice , please explain how he is the future ?

Well, yesterday was the past. Fury hasn't lost yet, and Master is clearly on glue. Clear things up?

Fury, Price, Charr, Wach, etc, are all well protected HW's.

There's a reason they all had/have perfect records and that's simply because they hadn't/haven't fought a Klitschko.

Love the Klitschko's or hate them for there fight selections now, but they got to where they are by fighting the best that was there.

Fury will crumble under the first decent right hand his pikey chin receives.

Price will likey wilt too, but his defences seem much better than Fury so maybe, just maybe, he can make us proud.

[mofo2]

Fury is the future even if he is not the most articulate of boxers. Get use to it because he will be around a long time.

Fury cant punch and has been floored by a non punching novice , please explain how he is the future ?

Well, yesterday was the past. Fury hasn't lost yet, and Master is clearly on glue. Clear things up?

Fury, Price, Charr, Wach, etc, are all well protected HW's.

There's a reason they all had/have perfect records and that's simply because they hadn't/haven't fought a Klitschko.

Love the Klitschko's or hate them for there fight selections now, but they got to where they are by fighting the best that was there.

Fury will crumble under the first decent right hand his pikey chin receives.

Price will likey wilt too, but his defences seem much better than Fury so maybe, just maybe, he can make us proud.

Price ain't protected, he has only had 15 fights and isn't World Level yet, to expect any fighter to get into the ring with the likes of Wlad who is the best HW in the business would be unfair and to label it as that is silly!

[Vendettos]

Fury is the future even if he is not the most articulate of boxers. Get use to it because he will be around a long time.

Fury cant punch and has been floored by a non punching novice , please explain how he is the future ?

Well, yesterday was the past. Fury hasn't lost yet, and Master is clearly on glue. Clear things up?

Fury, Price, Charr, Wach, etc, are all well protected HW's.

There's a reason they all had/have perfect records and that's simply because they hadn't/haven't fought a Klitschko.

Love the Klitschko's or hate them for there fight selections now, but they got to where they are by fighting the best that was there.

Fury will crumble under the first decent right hand his pikey chin receives.

Price will likey wilt too, but his defences seem much better than Fury so maybe, just maybe, he can make us proud.

Price ain't protected, he has only had 15 fights and isn't World Level yet, to expect any fighter to get into the ring with the likes of Wlad who is the best HW in the business would be unfair and to label it as that is silly!

I'm not saying that by not fighting a Klitschko he's protected, I'm saying that he's protected by fighting below par fighters.

Sam Sexton isn't a threat and never looked likely to ever be one. Audely Harrison?? Need I say more?

Oh but I shall! Matt Skelton? Forty fucking five! Next fight? Tony Thompson 41! Althought Thompson should be a much harder test, so good to see progression.

Now I actually love Price. I think he's got talent, but the same thing is happening to him that happened to James DeGale, they're fighting opponents below there level.

But I guess we are all entitled to our opinions. Personally I'd see him trying to fight Chisora, Fury, Haye, but none of them look likely!

Thompson will be a decent fight even though if he wins he'll be beating a guy that's already been stopped twice by the guy he's trying to get a fight with.

[jon09]

He is still a punk kid with no real men sitting him down and telling him to shut his pie hole.