How many times have you seen someone hurt, literally turn and run away, and be allowed to continue? That was a 110% valid stoppage.
Fury is a great, great fighter. Hes still being evaluated on a one fight basis right now and its rather silly. Fury very well may beat AJ. But, AJ has still shown more and shown more against better competition than Fury has. Its not even close in that regard to be quite honest.
Somehow Fury’s newfound fanboys will praise him for his boxing abilities such as in the Wlad fight where he quite literally did nothing, then turn around and say AJ is scared to fight when he chooses to box. Its all just laughable. (Not pointing this at you, just speaking generally.)
As much as I'd like to say, "it does matter what we see" as reality, in boxing what we sees never changes a thing. They fight kept going. Many counted out Fury in that last round of his first fight against Wilder. That could have been it. But it wasn't. So we just don't know, and hindsight is a bitch. It makes us arrogant and entitled to our new truth. There are bullshit occurrences all the time.from Canelo vs GGG 1, to Mayweather getting knocked down by Judah and it not counting, even though it was, by definition, a knockdown. We have to accept what played out because it existed within the realm and parameters of the sport.
Well, people can go fight to fight with Fury when they appraise him. That's on them. They can overhype a Wlad win all they want, too. He beat an old Wlad just as AJ did (older in AJ's case by two years). The thing about Fury is that his performance ceiling I think is higher. AJ is a bit more consistent in his fights, but I have more doubt about him pulling through in tight spots. Against Wlad, I think he was saved because while Wlad has been described by many sparring partners and opponents as a destructive hitter with both fists, he just doesn't press for the KO. Wlad kind of let him off the hook, especially between the end of the fifth right through to the 10th. Wlad never had something to bite onto against Fury. That fight sucked. It sucked. Don't get me started.
The AJ knob-slurpers are guilty of their own fart huffing. They have a hard time looking past his tentative movements and questionable punch resistance. They see "box" and think it's because he wants to, but he knows that it is something which he MUST do because he can't take a punch. He reacts poorly to it. He always has.
And thank you for clarifying the generalization being made by your comment included in parentheses. I know that, all too often, I reply to someone and use it to make general observations and to generate criticisms, but they aren't actually aimed at the person to whom I was replying.
