The 2nd British fighter to win the Ring magazine fighter of the year is.....

[erics44]

That's hard to believe when you think on it. The first? At the rate at which Brits are collecting trinkets he won't be the last. On a side, Canelo v Kirkland ko of year says more about inner promotion than it does anything. Who didn't see that detonation coming?

Exactly what I was saying about fighters with connections getting unfairly rated higher.

Makes Tyson winning the top spot even better as hes the least connected fighter and probably most hated on that list. He has been awarded on pure merit.

yeah but how many K2 fighters have made it on the list

or even german based fighters

perhaps theres a bias against them

and now their crown jewel was just toppled the ring are rubbing their faces in it

[ryanman]

Either this thread title should be changed to 'the second British fighter ever....' or the first post should say Ricky Hatton.

[Fenster]

The 2nd post said Ricky Hatton.

[erics44]

That's hard to believe when you think on it. The first? At the rate at which Brits are collecting trinkets he won't be the last. On a side, Canelo v Kirkland ko of year says more about inner promotion than it does anything. Who didn't see that detonation coming?

Exactly what I was saying about fighters with connections getting unfairly rated higher.

Makes Tyson winning the top spot even better as hes the least connected fighter and probably most hated on that list. He has been awarded on pure merit.

yeah but how many K2 fighters have made it on the list

or even german based fighters

perhaps theres a bias against them

and now their crown jewel was just toppled the ring are rubbing their faces in it

I don't really mean that btw

im not really arsed

im glad wlad is no longer champ, what a large part of my adult life without a credible HW division

fury deserves the award just for putting an end to that

[ross]

Its interesting that the heavyweights have done historically very well. Most of the multiple winners have been heavyweights.

36 times a heavyweight has won it. Only two years in the 70's did a nne heavyweight win it. It was shared between Ali, Frazier and Foreman.

Tyson unifies against Wilder and wins fighter of the year this year also.

[Fenster]

You can assess the information different to that.

Fury is the first heavyweight to win for 19 years.

Maybe it shows how weak the heavyweight division has been in recent times, or maybe how strong the heavyweight division was in the past, or maybe the heavyweight division is no longer seen as the glamour divison, as it definitely was in the past.

[ross]

You can assess the information different to that.

Fury is the first heavyweight to win for 19 years.

Maybe it shows how weak the heavyweight division has been in recent times, or maybe how strong the heavyweight division was in the past, or maybe the heavyweight division is no longer seen as the glamour divison, as it definitely was in the past.

I personally think its as much to do with America having little in the way of world class heavies over recent years. You need americans in their for their networks to throw promotion behind and create that "glamour" again.

[erics44]

You can assess the information different to that.

Fury is the first heavyweight to win for 19 years.

Maybe it shows how weak the heavyweight division has been in recent times, or maybe how strong the heavyweight division was in the past, or maybe the heavyweight division is no longer seen as the glamour divison, as it definitely was in the past.

I personally think its as much to do with America having little in the way of world class heavies over recent years. You need americans in their for their networks to throw promotion behind and create that "glamour" again.

I think its because wlad klit was allowed to cheat for so long

had they had have applied the rules to his fights his reign would have been a lot shorter

in fact he may never have won it when he did, he should have been dq'd early in the sam peter fight

maybe then other stars would have emerged

[ross]

You can assess the information different to that.

Fury is the first heavyweight to win for 19 years.

Maybe it shows how weak the heavyweight division has been in recent times, or maybe how strong the heavyweight division was in the past, or maybe the heavyweight division is no longer seen as the glamour divison, as it definitely was in the past.

I personally think its as much to do with America having little in the way of world class heavies over recent years. You need americans in their for their networks to throw promotion behind and create that "glamour" again.

I think its because wlad klit was allowed to cheat for so long

had they had have applied the rules to his fights his reign would have been a lot shorter

in fact he may never have won it when he did, he should have been dq'd early in the sam peter fight

maybe then other stars would have emerged

Yes he did hug and hold but if your good enough you shouldnt be allowing him to. Tyson didnt but everyone else did for the past 11 years.

Even Jennings an american fighter fighting in america with the ref not allowing it couldnt do anything and spent too much of the fight being too defensive to win any rounds. Wlad hasnt suddently become a one trick pony just because Fury was massively better than anyone wanted to give him credit for. If the fight had been postponed until February the general opinion would still be that Wlad is too good for everyone.

[Dark Lord Al]

You can assess the information different to that.

Fury is the first heavyweight to win for 19 years.

Maybe it shows how weak the heavyweight division has been in recent times, or maybe how strong the heavyweight division was in the past, or maybe the heavyweight division is no longer seen as the glamour divison, as it definitely was in the past.

I personally think its as much to do with America having little in the way of world class heavies over recent years. You need americans in their for their networks to throw promotion behind and create that "glamour" again.

Bingo !

[erics44]

You can assess the information different to that.

Fury is the first heavyweight to win for 19 years.

Maybe it shows how weak the heavyweight division has been in recent times, or maybe how strong the heavyweight division was in the past, or maybe the heavyweight division is no longer seen as the glamour divison, as it definitely was in the past.

I personally think its as much to do with America having little in the way of world class heavies over recent years. You need americans in their for their networks to throw promotion behind and create that "glamour" again.

I think its because wlad klit was allowed to cheat for so long

had they had have applied the rules to his fights his reign would have been a lot shorter

in fact he may never have won it when he did, he should have been dq'd early in the sam peter fight

maybe then other stars would have emerged

Yes he did hug and hold but if your good enough you shouldnt be allowing him to. Tyson didnt but everyone else did for the past 11 years.

Even Jennings an american fighter fighting in america with the ref not allowing it couldnt do anything and spent too much of the fight being too defensive to win any rounds. Wlad hasnt suddently become a one trick pony just because Fury was massively better than anyone wanted to give him credit for. If the fight had been postponed until February the general opinion would still be that Wlad is too good for everyone.

that's stupid logic

holding and leaning is against the rules

its like saying, he kicked a lot but if you were good enough you shouldn't have allowed him to do it

most HW were smaller than him so it was miles harder for them to stop him doing it than it was for a bigger fella

[ross]

You can assess the information different to that.

Fury is the first heavyweight to win for 19 years.

Maybe it shows how weak the heavyweight division has been in recent times, or maybe how strong the heavyweight division was in the past, or maybe the heavyweight division is no longer seen as the glamour divison, as it definitely was in the past.

I personally think its as much to do with America having little in the way of world class heavies over recent years. You need americans in their for their networks to throw promotion behind and create that "glamour" again.

I think its because wlad klit was allowed to cheat for so long

had they had have applied the rules to his fights his reign would have been a lot shorter

in fact he may never have won it when he did, he should have been dq'd early in the sam peter fight

maybe then other stars would have emerged

Yes he did hug and hold but if your good enough you shouldnt be allowing him to. Tyson didnt but everyone else did for the past 11 years.

Even Jennings an american fighter fighting in america with the ref not allowing it couldnt do anything and spent too much of the fight being too defensive to win any rounds. Wlad hasnt suddently become a one trick pony just because Fury was massively better than anyone wanted to give him credit for. If the fight had been postponed until February the general opinion would still be that Wlad is too good for everyone.

that's stupid logic

holding and leaning is against the rules

its like saying, he kicked a lot but if you were good enough you shouldn't have allowed him to do it

most HW were smaller than him so it was miles harder for them to stop him doing it than it was for a bigger fella

Alot of them invited it. While Klitschko was holding and leaning he wasnt landing that big right hand or left hook. Look at Haye for instance! He tried using it as a tactic to get points deducted from him but it backfired!

[erics44]

You can assess the information different to that.

Fury is the first heavyweight to win for 19 years.

Maybe it shows how weak the heavyweight division has been in recent times, or maybe how strong the heavyweight division was in the past, or maybe the heavyweight division is no longer seen as the glamour divison, as it definitely was in the past.

I personally think its as much to do with America having little in the way of world class heavies over recent years. You need americans in their for their networks to throw promotion behind and create that "glamour" again.

I think its because wlad klit was allowed to cheat for so long

had they had have applied the rules to his fights his reign would have been a lot shorter

in fact he may never have won it when he did, he should have been dq'd early in the sam peter fight

maybe then other stars would have emerged

Yes he did hug and hold but if your good enough you shouldnt be allowing him to. Tyson didnt but everyone else did for the past 11 years.

Even Jennings an american fighter fighting in america with the ref not allowing it couldnt do anything and spent too much of the fight being too defensive to win any rounds. Wlad hasnt suddently become a one trick pony just because Fury was massively better than anyone wanted to give him credit for. If the fight had been postponed until February the general opinion would still be that Wlad is too good for everyone.

that's stupid logic

holding and leaning is against the rules

its like saying, he kicked a lot but if you were good enough you shouldn't have allowed him to do it

most HW were smaller than him so it was miles harder for them to stop him doing it than it was for a bigger fella

Alot of them invited it. While Klitschko was holding and leaning he wasnt landing that big right hand or left hook. Look at Haye for instance! He tried using it as a tactic to get points deducted from him but it backfired!

I don't agree

he tried to get out of the way of it because he knew klit would be allowed to do it

every other small fighter klit has faced, klit just leaned on until they had no energy left and then he started punching

other fighters didn't go down from it, trying to hold klit up, which is what sapped their energy even more

haye might not have come out of the fight with klit with a lot of praise but he fought the only way he had a chance of winning apart from perhaps an all out attack

Fury's performance was immense and I am delighted about it, you have to be being kind to wlad to give him any of the rounds, but fury didn't have to worry about the hold and lean because he is too big, which is wlads major weapon, by far his most dominant weapon over the last 11 years

much more effective than his punching

and against the rules

[Primo Carnera]

[QUOTE=erics44;1370194]

You can assess the information different to that.

Fury is the first heavyweight to win for 19 years.

Maybe it shows how weak the heavyweight division has been in recent times, or maybe how strong the heavyweight division was in the past, or maybe the heavyweight division is no longer seen as the glamour divison, as it definitely was in the past.

I personally think its as much to do with America having little in the way of world class heavies over recent years. You need americans in their for their networks to throw promotion behind and create that "glamour" again.

I think its because wlad klit was allowed to cheat for so long

had they had have applied the rules to his fights his reign would have been a lot shorter

in fact he may never have won it when he did, he should have been dq'd early in the sam peter fight

maybe then other stars would have emerged

Yes he did hug and hold but if your good enough you shouldnt be allowing him to. Tyson didnt but everyone else did for the past 11 years.

Even Jennings an american fighter fighting in america with the ref not allowing it couldnt do anything and spent too much of the fight being too defensive to win any rounds. Wlad hasnt suddently become a one trick pony just because Fury was massively better than anyone wanted to give him credit for. If the fight had been postponed until February the general opinion would still be that Wlad is too good for everyone.

that's stupid logic

holding and leaning is against the rules

its like saying, he kicked a lot but if you were good enough you shouldn't have allowed him to do it

most HW were smaller than him so it was miles harder for them to stop him doing it than it was for a bigger fella[/QUOTE]


This is exactly the point. Because Fury is bigger than Wlad, the leaning on is going to play into Fury's hands more than Wlad , whereas with smaller guys Wlad faces , it's to his advantage. Also , the reach made a massive difference . Wlad can usually paw his jab out and control the distance , but Fury used his longer reach and good movement to control that. Wlad wasn't prepared to take shots in order to get his own off.
I also think that Wlad (and many other people, Myself definitely included) underestimated Fury and his ability to execute the gameplan. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but if Wlad thought Fury could do as well as he did, there's no way he would've given him a shot. He clearly thought Fury was pretty useless and all talk , but he had the shock of his life. Fair play to Team Fury for that.
Basically , in the rematch, in order to stand any chance, Wlad has to change his mindset of the last 10 years and attack without fear of getting clumped on the way in . I'm not sure at his age, whether he can do that.

[Fenster]

I've always said Wlad shouldn't be rated P4P because he has a massive natural size advantage over most of his opponents.

Think the Fury fight made me right. He was completely lost fighting someone as big as him, that had a bit of skill, who he couldn't physically overpower.