Fury has been around during a dearth of useful heavyweights, without being nationalistic about it the top american athletes at this sort of height/weight are looking at basketball and football or even UFC for more consistent and less corrupt earnings.

Having said that, it is not Furys fault when he was born or which sport he picked, he has made up for his situation by being a master of salesmanship (remind you of anyone?).

There was another dearth of useful heavyweights immediately after WW2, for obvious reasons, although Rocky, to his credit enlisted.

You cannot hold it against both men just due to these things, they fought and beat who was there, period.

Any talk about Fury coulda shoulda woulda is also relevant to Rocky, so its worthless hyperbole.

Geoff