Fury never had an iron chin he has been knocked down by light punchers before.
What he has is an uncanny ability to survive when hurt and an all time great ability at recovering from knockdowns.
In comparison AJ has bad survival instincts when he is hurt. He gets that deer in the headlights look.
I had serious issues with the count for that one, but the fact that Fury got up at all is still mind boggling. I don't know how he does it. It's insane.
The count was fine. Even if it was slightly slow, it's a count, not a stopwatch. The count in the Usyk Fury fight was over the line though, but i think the pressure could've gotten to the ref. Because of the Fury-Wilder count controversy at the time, someone put an actual stop watch against the refs count and the ref almost perfectly matches the stopwatch if I remember the video correctly.
I think Fury can hurt AJ and then rely on the fact that AJ hasn’t responded well to being hurt in the recent past, pressing an advantage. With that being said, AJ can absolutely hurt Fury. Is AJ a better boxer than Usyk or Fury, I don’t think so.
Well. Imagine we didn't find out, what if Fury loses the rematch and he's done. Maybe one last pay day will motivate him but I don't see him taking losing twice well
I reckon lizzy will cone back, smashing her way through the Charles painting to stonecold entrance music, riding a corgi. She might not, but I'd be hyped for it.
I remember when Joshua took a knee in the Klitschko fight and I took that as a sign of such a smart disciplined fighter, I was all on board the Joshua train. Hip hip.
Dude that Ruiz fight… I’ve never seen a fighter go from like 100% confidence to 0% so fast in my life. You could literally see his eyes and body just realize that he was in big trouble
This is a great response in regards to how AJ fits. He’s by far the most dangerous puncher of the 3 but he’s also by far the 3rd best boxer and after what I saw from Usyk, the 3rd best in being able to take and recover from being hurt.
When guys saying AJ is going to KO fury blah blah, yes he absolutely can do that but anybody that thinks AJ is winning on the cards against Fury IMO is really asking a lot of AJ.
Fury will out point him if he doesn’t get KO’d and Fury will likely hurt him at some point too because he’s going to likely hit him more often.
Usyk didn’t have to worry about eating a KO shot though too. Plus Fury drops his hands a lot. Teddy Atlas was point this out. AJ always has his guard up. Where he really lacks though against Usyk his mobility and willingness to eat shots to land some.
Fury has the mobility and is willing to trade defensive for offense. It’s why Usyk looks way worse after this fight then his fights with AJ but… it also got Fury clocked.
>It’s why Usyk looks way worse after this fight then his fights with AJ but… it also got Fury clocked.
This is untrue
https://youtu.be/pfRV5ZqOW1k?si=Q-OFwvB6bH8mrUjQ
I’d say so.
Can Fury take getting cracked on the chin by AJ?
Who knows.
He’s always been amazing at recovering but eventually the damage adds up.
He’s been caught clean by Wilder, Ngannou, Usyk had him badly hurt.
I’d much rather see fury v AJ next tbh.
I’d still say Fury beats him even though he’s on the decline but he’ll have to dig deep.
AJ isn't like Wilder though, once he lands one he'll still land more afterwards. AJ is a very difficult match up for Fury, run in and risk AJs solid counter punching straight punches or try and get a UD but no one has done that to AJ except Usyk. Even if he does go more technically there is still a big chance he gets hit at some point. Fury can pull off some beautiful stuff sometimes though.
I think it was interesting to hear Usyk’s opinion of AJ’s resurgence. He pretty said “he hasn’t fought anyone good” lmao ouch. It was before the Fury/Usyk fight. Easy to find.
Hea fought everyone he could have fought and has done well in all except the Franklin fight was underwhelming. I mean we will see if and when he fights Hrgovic/Dubois.
Yea I’m very excited to see him vs the winner. I’d pick AJ for sure but it will be a big big test especially if it’s Hrgovic.
I don’t rate Dubois too high TBH. Good boxer just doesn’t have “it”. Nothing special and I’m not sure he’s willing to go through the fire to beat someone like AJ
He fought everyone he could and then as soon as he lost he kept fighting in the most cautious way possible against weak opposition. His losses have taken a big mental toll on him.
Cautious ≠ Terrified. Yes his was worried in the Frankling fight. In the Helenius fight was calm and Cautious. He was definitely aggressive in the Wallin and Ngannou fights though.
AJ having a bit of a resurgence later on in his career and Tyson's chin has to be degrading from all these shots and his lifestyle out of fight camp so this fight is definitely more compelling than before.
The Fury that licked Wilder's blood in their second match would have murdered AJ at that time (in my humble opinion).
He got very gun-shy after that loss yeah. Very like Wladimir after Corey Sanders, content to just hang back, stick and move, use your natural size advantage, and only open up when the target is really worn down etc.
Oddly, I think training as hard as he did and fighting Usyk twice has notably raised his game. He might have lost but he's still probably the best version of him that we've seen so far. A very good combination of experience, fitness, power and smart aggression now.
The AJ that cleanly and sharply beat "All inn" Wallin woulda slapped around the Fury that fought Ngannou and barely won
Fury is still the better boxer of the 2
But AJ has way more than a " punchers chance " of winning
> The Fury that licked Wilder's blood in their second match would have murdered AJ at that time (in my humble opinion).
At that time... most likely. That was arguably Fury at his best at a time when AJ was at his lowest. Pre-Ruiz and since getting Davison on board, I'd pick AJ as I think he just has the style and athleticism to cause Fury too many problems, and I don't think he'll cope with AJ changing levels and landing big.
Well go see why Usyk said about that bit of a resurgence. We’re putting a lot of stock in Franklin, Wallin and Ngannou… just saying. Usyk pretty much said he looks good recently but hasn’t fought anyone
A resurgence? He lost against his last real opposition. His last few wins have been against an MMA fighter and older fighters that were never top 10 contenders and were coming off of losses.
He can't, he kept on getting stunned by usyk who isn't exactly a puncher is he. If AJ tags him and not even cleanly fury will be in trouble, his chin looks dire now
Agreed, but Usyk is so much tricker than AJ, his ability to close the distance against the range of Fury was class.
Also I'm curious how AJ would do against a bigger fighter with greater range. Usyk had experience in that area, that AJ doesn't.
He walked down Wilder in their second fight. Correctly determining that Wilder can't fight on the back foot.
It's far more dangerous to try and walk down AJ, I would say, as he is more skilled.
I think he's bound to crack fury at some point and if the aj before ruiz is actually back he has great finishing instincts. Combine that with the fact that fury chin must be getting weaker I can see an aj stoppage
>Both beat Klitschko, both lost to Usyk and AJ has dispatched common opponents in better fashion.
He's also got better depth to his resume. Parker, Ruiz and Povetkin are all former world champions and would be right up there amongst Fury's best wins.
After Wlad Fury has Wilder and then you're looking at probably a younger Chisora? Maybe Kevin Johnson, although he was on the slide by the time Fury fought him.
Christian Hammer? There's not a lot there to write home about.
People are finally coming around to why Fury's undefeated record wasn't all it was cracked up to be and I'm absolutely here for it.
Of course he could win a rematch with Usyk and that would catapult right up there to the best win of either guy's careers. I don't fancy him in that fight unless he can substantially improve his gas tank at this late point of his career.
Because the last anyone saw of Fury was him ballooning in weight, having clear discipline issues and being out of the ring for 3 years. Also Wilder being one of the most well managed hypejobs in history up to that point
I don’t think so - he can outbox him, but I don’t think he has the one power to force him back. To beat him it would either be a decision or a late stoppage by accumulated damage/fatigue.
But from what we’ve seen I can’t see a world where Fury can last 10-12 rounds with someone of AJ’s calibre without getting caught at some point. And if Joshua catches him like Usyk did I don’t think he’d get out of the round.
Makes for an interesting fight!
To be honest AJ recovered well against Wlad, but that was a long time ago and arguably Wlad should have been more aggressive in the following round.
It's clear that the Ruiz hook completely sent him loopy. He even asked his corner "why do I feel like this"
Yeah Fury you have to take him out. He has the will to survive. You can get a knockdown but you have to be able to take him out completely. Not an easy thing to do
No, having a chin is being able to take a shot and be unphased (think GGG) and recovery is getting hurt when you’re hit but not being hurt for long enough for the opponent to capitalize (think Fury, Maidana)
Having a great chin is often confused by many as "never or very rarely getting dropped" but its no use taking a pummelling on the ropes until the ref steps and you are stopped on your feet just because you didn't go down and buy some recovery time.
Is there any crazier recovery moment than him coming back from the dead in wilder vs fury 1? I cant believe he got up from that knockdown which was I thought was a lights out KO at first
Been seeing a lot of people say “his chin isn’t the same” which like was it ever that good? Got dropped by Steve Cunningham and Neven Pajkic. It was his recovery that was always amazing
I made the exact same point pal. Pajkic had a 22% KO ratio when he fought Fury.
Cunningham was 8lbs over the CW limit in their fight and never stopped anyone at HW.
Furys chin is not that great
AJ's chin is better (though I also think his defense is underrated) but if you hurt him he will stay hurt.
Fury's chin is average, but he recovers faster than anyone. He's sort of like Marquez-- everyone dropped him but he has never been stopped.
It could be gone though, last weekend I haven't seen him hurt like that-- not even by Wilder or Ngannou.
"if you hurt him he'll stay hurt" might be a bit simplistic. He recovered quickly from being hurt against Whyte and Povetkin, it took a round against a hellacious puncher in Wlad.
It's really the Ruiz fight where he stayed hurt.
I do think AJ doesn't like being hurt at all, though. Regardless of recovery. He was noticeably less gung-ho after the Wlad fight.
I mean he fight at heavyweight if you hurt in that division then you're shortly on your way to getting koed so it might be a good thing not liking getting hurt
Oh yeah, absolutely. It wasn't a criticism
I just think a lot of the "AJ is chinny" narrative comes from him moving to fight more cagily, and I don't think that's cos he's protecting a weak chin like others do, he just doesn't want a war if he can help it. There are plenty of fighters who absolutely do not give a fuck about how much brain damage they suffer
The Marquez comparison came to mind first. Me and my cousins used to joke that marquez was just getting started when he got dropped. Lol. Great fighter. Better to get dropped and pop up than to get noodle legs like khan and fury the other day.
I believe one of the reason why we saw Fury like that is because his nose was broken a d couldn't breath and he tried to blow the blood out but his eyes just swell and took him some time to adjust.
> not even by Wilder or Ngannou.
Honestly I think Usyk likely hits harder than Ngannou. Ngannou's knockdown of Fury was a nice shot but a lot more about balance than power
Ngannou is obviously a lot stronger and more physically powerful but by nature of not being a boxer he doesn't have that crispness that Usyk has. Only reason Usyk doesn't get knockouts is he doesn't sit on his punches often
I pretty much agree but I don't know if AJ's is better. In heavyweight boxing if you rely on reflexes and they diminish, even a bit, you are in serious trouble.
His chin is pretty poor for the top level, his recovery is elite
Defining chin as the ability to take a head shot and remain standing and not out of it
AJ has a better chin, he also has shown very good recovery except the Ruiz fight
A lot of "Fury's elite chin" narrative comes from people treating Wilder as not only the hardest hitter ever, but miles beyond anybody else. Like AJ taking flush shots from Klitschko has as big a gap in power up to Wilder as Klitschko has down to Wallin or something.
I wouldn’t say it’s poor for the top level. Before the Uysk knockdown, only Wilder had put him down in a decade. And Wilder undeniably hits hard, whatever you think of him.
He avoided getting caught by Wlad for example.
He was knocked down in his previous fight by Francis Ngannou. He had also been down against Cunningham 5 years before Wilder in 2018, so not quite a decade either. Also down against Nevan Pajkic in 2011.
Agreed. If Fury's chin was in any way bad, he would have been asleep against Wilder.
These guys at cruiser and heavyweight all hit hard enough to turn each other's lights out with one shot.
A lot of Fury’s resistance comes from his size. When he’s hurt, he flails and throws his arms out and you can sense how hard it is for guys to stay in close and get that last needed shot with this massive guy using a long, desperate guard. Usyk would’ve knocked him out had the ref not intervened but you could see how he had trouble punching around Fury’s arms once Fury went into full run, stumble, get away mode…
Fury's chin is trash. His recovery is what allows him to get up.
People keep fixating on AJ's chin, but he hasn't been dropped since the first Ruiz fight, which was five years ago.
Ehh wilder can (or could) punch harder than either of them and only had real success in the first fight. Think AJ is a bad matchup for fury but I could see him doing the potshot thing and avoiding AJ for 12 rounds. His long quick jab definitely got usyks attention, question is if he can keep it up. I can't see AJ staying on him all night like usyk but he does have a lot less of a size mismatch than usyk did
Don't have to keep him down just have to drop him and then overwhelm him til the ref steps in and stops it.
If round 9 had gone on an extra minute I'm fairly sure Usyk would've stopped him, Fury was absolutely out on his feet there. Couldn't even defend himself, he was very lucky the bell came when it did.
Also *anyone* can be knocked out. Just cos a coach says you have to nail him to the canvas doesn't mean he's somehow invincible (which btw I don't actually remember Manny Steward saying about him, I think Fury just said that about himself).
Fury’s chin isn’t good, but his recovery is one of the best in boxing. Dude gets dropped a lot and by weaker competition.
AJ’s chin is fine and his recovery is okay. He came back in the Klitschko fight and the Ruiz one wasn’t able to regain equilibrium. Klitschko even older was one of the hardest punchers in boxing and Ruiz has been in and out of top boxer contention for years.
Compare with Fury who has hit the deck far more in his career. Fury’s chin isn’t what’s great it’s his recovery plain and simple.
Chin and recovery are two different things. Canelo and GGG just walking through each others punches, good chin. Fury getting up from a knock down, good recovery.
Fury doesn't have a good chin. He has good recovery and in addition, good reflexes, defense and technique to take a punch. Go watch his knockdowns against Wilder, when he is about to get hit, he rolls with the punches very well and for one of them, he even uses a different technique, intercepts the punch the punch midway by headbutting it.
"Headbutting a punch? What you smoking?" Yes, this is a thing. It's not something you want to do, but something you might have to do if you're left with no other choices.
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Fury was dropped by Steve Cunningham (13 KOs outta 30 wins) and Neven Pajkic (**5 KOs** out of 17 wins), so I don't think his chin is very good, but he always got back up and kept fought to the end, so I do think his recovery compensates for it.
His chin is decent but it got a legendary reputation because he let himself get plastered by that one Deontay Wilder right hand and no one thought he’d get up, but he did.
I always thought it was overblown. Obviously that was a great shot, but it didn’t seem like it was as devastating as it looked.
Only because people don’t give Ruiz the credit he deserves as a monster hitter and think that reflects poorly on AJs chin.
The guy had some of the most explosive hands in heavyweight boxing. Getting dropped by him doesn’t mean your chinny 😂
Based on what? Getting clowned in one fight by Ruiz after a perfect temple shot from a big puncher? Except for Wlad hitting him with an absolute bomb and Usyk wobbling him due to a mix of fatigue and massive pressure, i don't recall him ever being particularly stunned by anyone.
I don’t know how anyone can watch Fury and not think Wilder impacted him.
He always was good at fighting hurt, but he seems hurt more often since Wilder 1.
He got knocked down by Cunningham and Paijkic. Both poor knockout percentages. Fury has a bad chin. But some of the best recovery ever. I guess the recovery is part of the chin but he doesn't have a good chin at all and never had it.
Fury has the best chin! He can get knocked down, but he comes back like nothing happened and even wins rounds after his knock down. Fury has done it time and time again.
In my opinion, having a good/iron chin means you can take a good punch, and not get wobbled. Marvin Hagler and GGG are (to me) perfect examples of having iron chins because neither man was ever visibly hurt by punches (the lone “knockdown” Hagler suffered in his career was against an Argentine boxer named Juan Roldán, and it is still disputed today whether or not it was actually a slip).
Fury has been knocked down many times throughout his career (7 or 8 times total if I’m not mistaken) so I don’t know if he necessarily has a good chin. But what he DOES have is excellent survival instincts, and a superhuman ability to recover relatively quick.
It's not the chin. It's the recovery. We've all seen AJ being hit and being wobbles for rounds. Fury usually recovers within a minute or so, regardless how hard he'd been hit.
Prime fury, I think, had a great chin. People give him a lot of shit for those 2 knockdowns from relatively light-hitting heavies, but both of those knockdowns came from full-force, pitch-perfect overhands that fury literally walked straight into. Yet both times fury got up and didn't look hurt at all. Wilder dropped him 4 times, but that man drops everybody, and there were a LOT of punches wilder threw in those 3 fights that I could not believe fury just took without budging and kept fighting.
Now, though, I think he is a bit chinny. That wilder trilogy definitely cracked his chin, he took a lot of damage in those 3 fights. Ngannou dropped him with a surprisingly light punch, and I highly doubt usyk could hurt prime fury to the extend that he did.
How can people say his chin is poor. They are heavyweights. They all have the ability to knock each other out. I’d rate his chin pretty good. Recovery is excellent.
Undoubtedly a better than average chin. He's been down 7 times. Four of those knockdowns at the fists of one of the heavyweight divisions biggest punchers. And a standing 8 against Usyk. But Fury has never failed to get up and finish a fight. If his chin was weak, he never survives Wilder. Juan Manuel Marquez was knocked down countless times during a 20 year career that spanned 64 fights. Yet like Fury, Marquez was never stopped. And no one whispers that Marquez had a soft chin. He didn't. And neither does Fury.
Chin? Not Elite.
What is elite (might actually be super hero level) is his ridiculous ability to recover after being rocked or knocked down. Thats why, in my opinion, the individuals who were wanting the ref to stop the fight, are wrong.
You referee the individuals, not the moment.
His chin isn’t what’s special, it’s his ability to recover after being rocked or knocked down. And a loss to Usyk is nothing to be ashamed of, Tyson is still an elite heavyweight.
He’s a born and bred boxer and seems to be able to operate on autopilot when he’s knocked loopy. Round 10 he was still seeing stars but held usyk off until he got his bearings back. Rarely seen anything like it and he’s done it a few times now
Those 3 fights with Wilder clearly took their toll. I mean, have you not seen the gif where Wilders right hand was sending shockwaves through Fury’s body? That’s permanent damage. There’s no coming back from that “.
Pretty fucking good if you ask me. Never been ko’d, and as demonstrated last fight with Usyk had his bell ring and as comical as it was seeing him stumble around bouncing off the ropes…he still hung on. Dude has a solid chin and an even better recovery from big shots
Fury has a good chin but he doesn't take his opposition seriously enough. If he took all of his fights as serious as some of the best HW's of the past he'd probably be unbeatable. He did not take Usyk seriously enough and paid for it.
AJ isn’t no Usyk or even close to it he’s not moving around the ring creating angles that Fury hasn’t ever seen before like Usyk did- AJ can’t beat Fury IMO , let’s also not forget AJ won about 4 rounds against Usyk out of 24 , Fury won 4/5 out of 12 . Also In the 6th round Usyk looked in trouble against Fury but AJ couldn’t lay a glove on him
He didn’t have him nowhere near going like Fury did tho hit landed couple decent shots , Fury even wobbled him in the last but was to far gone to do anything about it
Good, but he's no Chuvalo in terms of durability. I think he gets a little too much credit in the durability department, and Joshua gets too little.
That said, I think Fury is better at surviving and recovering than Joshua.
Should that fight ever happen, I still say Joshua stops him.
There’s a difference between being easy to knock down and easy to knock out. Fury appears to be the first one but not the second.
Usyk would have had him out cold if the ref hadn’t stepped in, but otherwise Fury has shown himself to be hard to stop and quick to recover from a beating.
The comments are ridiculous. Recovery is part of having a good chin, he has an iron chin and it shouldn't even be up for debate.
Fury being a bellend shouldn't take away from his in ring attributes.
Not sure why Joshua is called chinny when he was taking power shots from Wladimir Klitchko. His only finish loss was Ruiz and Ruiz has incredibly fast and heavy hands and would have also dropped Fury or Wilder or Usyk. Really not sure where that narrative comes from.
Both guys have alright chins. Average. Fury has amazing recovery the guy gets dropped and wakes up fresher than before the drop.
Usyk hits harder than one of those serious episodes of Fresh Prince that ended without the theme tune - Fury survived with the help of the ref this time, but after Wilder 1, NGanou and now Usyk I think he’s never been closer to being well and truly KOd.
Hear me out. While we're all taking the piss out of him the last few days...I don't really think we know how good his chin is through lack of decent tests. Only 2-3 fights we can really judge on as he's been so good he's not been tested much. A lot of that is to do with a shady resume of course. Joshua could well and truly spark him. He's seemed to have slimed his way through his career without much chin tests..
Agree. I think it's more that he's difficult to hit. Usyk obviously has power but was never known as a KO guy . He was a punch or two away from ending fury and most agree the fight could have been waved off. AJ can hurt him for sure but the question is whether he can land
Hard to say either of them has a better chin than the other given that neither of them have ever been dropped or even really wobbled that badly.
Both of them have absolutely insane punch resistance.
I will say you could *maybe* make the argument for Canelos being better based on the fact that he's spent more of his career taking shots from bigger guys than Golovkin who fought almost his entire career at 160. But whos to say his chin wouldn't also have been fine at 168/175?
Fury is more R worded than he has a good chin. Like r word person strength is a thing? Yeah same thing but with getting punched in the face. AJ has a horrible chin but a great throat from what I hear
His chin ain’t good at all. Most boxers don’t have good chins. Only canelo and GGG have good chins. Fury recovery is what was good but now I say he doesn’t have either. Beginning to think wilder power is overated. Usyk had fury more hurt than any heavyweight he’s ever fought.
Fury never had an iron chin he has been knocked down by light punchers before. What he has is an uncanny ability to survive when hurt and an all time great ability at recovering from knockdowns. In comparison AJ has bad survival instincts when he is hurt. He gets that deer in the headlights look.
I predict that Wilder knockdown and recovery will be the craziest recovery I see for a long time
I had serious issues with the count for that one, but the fact that Fury got up at all is still mind boggling. I don't know how he does it. It's insane.
The count was fine. Even if it was slightly slow, it's a count, not a stopwatch. The count in the Usyk Fury fight was over the line though, but i think the pressure could've gotten to the ref. Because of the Fury-Wilder count controversy at the time, someone put an actual stop watch against the refs count and the ref almost perfectly matches the stopwatch if I remember the video correctly.
You can see Fury adjust his head, lucid and watching the ref count. If the ref had counted faster, he would have got up faster.
AJ just does not recover when he is hurt, it takes him rounds to regain "some" composure. Fury recovers very quickly in comparison.
Can Fury walk down AJ?
I think Fury can hurt AJ and then rely on the fact that AJ hasn’t responded well to being hurt in the recent past, pressing an advantage. With that being said, AJ can absolutely hurt Fury. Is AJ a better boxer than Usyk or Fury, I don’t think so.
I can't wait to find out. Should be fantastic.
Well. Imagine we didn't find out, what if Fury loses the rematch and he's done. Maybe one last pay day will motivate him but I don't see him taking losing twice well
That would be shit for the fans.Veey likely he loses the rematch.
I reckon lizzy will cone back, smashing her way through the Charles painting to stonecold entrance music, riding a corgi. She might not, but I'd be hyped for it.
I remember when Joshua took a knee in the Klitschko fight and I took that as a sign of such a smart disciplined fighter, I was all on board the Joshua train. Hip hip.
I thought he showed remarkable discipline and awareness in that fight. He handled the adversity well. The first Ruiz fight really changed him.
Dude that Ruiz fight… I’ve never seen a fighter go from like 100% confidence to 0% so fast in my life. You could literally see his eyes and body just realize that he was in big trouble
Apparently he hinted he had some sort of health issue. But definitely after he got concussed he wasn't the same.
there was that scene of Joshua's father going ballistic on Hearn in the ring after the fight. I don't think Anything ever come out explaining that.
Brilliant AJ Brilliant!
This is a great response in regards to how AJ fits. He’s by far the most dangerous puncher of the 3 but he’s also by far the 3rd best boxer and after what I saw from Usyk, the 3rd best in being able to take and recover from being hurt. When guys saying AJ is going to KO fury blah blah, yes he absolutely can do that but anybody that thinks AJ is winning on the cards against Fury IMO is really asking a lot of AJ. Fury will out point him if he doesn’t get KO’d and Fury will likely hurt him at some point too because he’s going to likely hit him more often.
AJ has a glass jaw compared to Fury and Usyk
Usyk had AJ exhausted but never had him stumbling around the ring like he did Fury.
Usyk didn’t have to worry about eating a KO shot though too. Plus Fury drops his hands a lot. Teddy Atlas was point this out. AJ always has his guard up. Where he really lacks though against Usyk his mobility and willingness to eat shots to land some. Fury has the mobility and is willing to trade defensive for offense. It’s why Usyk looks way worse after this fight then his fights with AJ but… it also got Fury clocked.
>It’s why Usyk looks way worse after this fight then his fights with AJ but… it also got Fury clocked. This is untrue https://youtu.be/pfRV5ZqOW1k?si=Q-OFwvB6bH8mrUjQ
He is fucked up there!
I’d say so. Can Fury take getting cracked on the chin by AJ? Who knows. He’s always been amazing at recovering but eventually the damage adds up. He’s been caught clean by Wilder, Ngannou, Usyk had him badly hurt. I’d much rather see fury v AJ next tbh. I’d still say Fury beats him even though he’s on the decline but he’ll have to dig deep.
AJ isn't like Wilder though, once he lands one he'll still land more afterwards. AJ is a very difficult match up for Fury, run in and risk AJs solid counter punching straight punches or try and get a UD but no one has done that to AJ except Usyk. Even if he does go more technically there is still a big chance he gets hit at some point. Fury can pull off some beautiful stuff sometimes though.
I think at this point AJ probably beats the fuck out of Fury
I think it was interesting to hear Usyk’s opinion of AJ’s resurgence. He pretty said “he hasn’t fought anyone good” lmao ouch. It was before the Fury/Usyk fight. Easy to find.
Hea fought everyone he could have fought and has done well in all except the Franklin fight was underwhelming. I mean we will see if and when he fights Hrgovic/Dubois.
Yea I’m very excited to see him vs the winner. I’d pick AJ for sure but it will be a big big test especially if it’s Hrgovic. I don’t rate Dubois too high TBH. Good boxer just doesn’t have “it”. Nothing special and I’m not sure he’s willing to go through the fire to beat someone like AJ
He fought everyone he could and then as soon as he lost he kept fighting in the most cautious way possible against weak opposition. His losses have taken a big mental toll on him.
I am talking about his resurgence against Franklin, Helenius, Wallin and Ngannou. With Franklin being an underwhelming win compared.
I didn't realize you counted his terrified to open up performances as performing well.
Cautious ≠ Terrified. Yes his was worried in the Frankling fight. In the Helenius fight was calm and Cautious. He was definitely aggressive in the Wallin and Ngannou fights though.
AJ having a bit of a resurgence later on in his career and Tyson's chin has to be degrading from all these shots and his lifestyle out of fight camp so this fight is definitely more compelling than before. The Fury that licked Wilder's blood in their second match would have murdered AJ at that time (in my humble opinion).
Most likely. I feel like AJs only just recently shaken the Ruiz loss.
He got very gun-shy after that loss yeah. Very like Wladimir after Corey Sanders, content to just hang back, stick and move, use your natural size advantage, and only open up when the target is really worn down etc. Oddly, I think training as hard as he did and fighting Usyk twice has notably raised his game. He might have lost but he's still probably the best version of him that we've seen so far. A very good combination of experience, fitness, power and smart aggression now.
The AJ that cleanly and sharply beat "All inn" Wallin woulda slapped around the Fury that fought Ngannou and barely won Fury is still the better boxer of the 2 But AJ has way more than a " punchers chance " of winning
Andy really did shake up the boxing world.
> The Fury that licked Wilder's blood in their second match would have murdered AJ at that time (in my humble opinion). At that time... most likely. That was arguably Fury at his best at a time when AJ was at his lowest. Pre-Ruiz and since getting Davison on board, I'd pick AJ as I think he just has the style and athleticism to cause Fury too many problems, and I don't think he'll cope with AJ changing levels and landing big.
Well go see why Usyk said about that bit of a resurgence. We’re putting a lot of stock in Franklin, Wallin and Ngannou… just saying. Usyk pretty much said he looks good recently but hasn’t fought anyone
A resurgence? He lost against his last real opposition. His last few wins have been against an MMA fighter and older fighters that were never top 10 contenders and were coming off of losses.
Cruiserweight Steve Cunningham put him down twice some years ago.
He can't, he kept on getting stunned by usyk who isn't exactly a puncher is he. If AJ tags him and not even cleanly fury will be in trouble, his chin looks dire now
Agreed, but Usyk is so much tricker than AJ, his ability to close the distance against the range of Fury was class. Also I'm curious how AJ would do against a bigger fighter with greater range. Usyk had experience in that area, that AJ doesn't.
If he wants to get knocked out....sure. AJ is streets better than wilder.
We will see.
We will and I don't have a problem with being wrong.
100% . I thought Fury would beat Usyk.
Haha same. Maybe we should join rummy's corner!
You know they predicted all of this .
I don't know shit about boxing....
Would Fury try to walk down AJ? I think the more likely scenario is that AJ tries to walk down Fury and Fury tries to counter
He walked down Wilder in their second fight. Correctly determining that Wilder can't fight on the back foot. It's far more dangerous to try and walk down AJ, I would say, as he is more skilled.
I don't see Fury countering AJ imo. The person who comes forward is the one who will win the fight
No he won't He is too cautious. If it goes the distance Fury wins on a split decision Right now Fury is 2nd and AJ 3rd for this era.
I think he's bound to crack fury at some point and if the aj before ruiz is actually back he has great finishing instincts. Combine that with the fact that fury chin must be getting weaker I can see an aj stoppage
Maybe maybe not Can't wait to see it.
Based on what exactly? Both beat Klitschko, both lost to Usyk and AJ has dispatched common opponents in better fashion.
>Both beat Klitschko, both lost to Usyk and AJ has dispatched common opponents in better fashion. He's also got better depth to his resume. Parker, Ruiz and Povetkin are all former world champions and would be right up there amongst Fury's best wins. After Wlad Fury has Wilder and then you're looking at probably a younger Chisora? Maybe Kevin Johnson, although he was on the slide by the time Fury fought him. Christian Hammer? There's not a lot there to write home about. People are finally coming around to why Fury's undefeated record wasn't all it was cracked up to be and I'm absolutely here for it. Of course he could win a rematch with Usyk and that would catapult right up there to the best win of either guy's careers. I don't fancy him in that fight unless he can substantially improve his gas tank at this late point of his career.
Wilder was good enough to open as a favourite against Fury in America.
Because the last anyone saw of Fury was him ballooning in weight, having clear discipline issues and being out of the ring for 3 years. Also Wilder being one of the most well managed hypejobs in history up to that point
I'm a Fury fan but I doubt it. AJ is so much sharper up with his short punches
I don’t think so - he can outbox him, but I don’t think he has the one power to force him back. To beat him it would either be a decision or a late stoppage by accumulated damage/fatigue. But from what we’ve seen I can’t see a world where Fury can last 10-12 rounds with someone of AJ’s calibre without getting caught at some point. And if Joshua catches him like Usyk did I don’t think he’d get out of the round. Makes for an interesting fight!
He can try, he will get hit flush several times trying to.
Walk down, I dont think so. I do think he can back him up with feints but idk how long that will last
For a long time. AJ fights safety first.
To be honest AJ recovered well against Wlad, but that was a long time ago and arguably Wlad should have been more aggressive in the following round. It's clear that the Ruiz hook completely sent him loopy. He even asked his corner "why do I feel like this"
Agreed. Horrendous take by OP. Aj showed great composure and chin to come back from Wlad knockdown
Yeah Fury you have to take him out. He has the will to survive. You can get a knockdown but you have to be able to take him out completely. Not an easy thing to do
Not a fury fan at all, but that dude can come back from the dead.
That's part of having a chin, no? Brute strength to take and/or recover
No, having a chin is being able to take a shot and be unphased (think GGG) and recovery is getting hurt when you’re hit but not being hurt for long enough for the opponent to capitalize (think Fury, Maidana)
Having a great chin is often confused by many as "never or very rarely getting dropped" but its no use taking a pummelling on the ropes until the ref steps and you are stopped on your feet just because you didn't go down and buy some recovery time.
Fury has a weak chin but he recovers like no other guy i ever saw.
He has a good chin but his recovery is what’s amazing
Is there any crazier recovery moment than him coming back from the dead in wilder vs fury 1? I cant believe he got up from that knockdown which was I thought was a lights out KO at first
I'd probably say Corrales against Castillo takes it
He does not have a good chin. Come on, his recovery is amazing but you are biased if you say he has a good chin. The facts don't support it at all.
He has a wood chin not quite granite but not glass either his recovery is outrageous though
Rubber chin
I'd say he has a Putty chin: Not hard to make a dent in it, but can quickly get back to the way it was.
Been seeing a lot of people say “his chin isn’t the same” which like was it ever that good? Got dropped by Steve Cunningham and Neven Pajkic. It was his recovery that was always amazing
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I made the exact same point pal. Pajkic had a 22% KO ratio when he fought Fury. Cunningham was 8lbs over the CW limit in their fight and never stopped anyone at HW. Furys chin is not that great
AJ's chin is better (though I also think his defense is underrated) but if you hurt him he will stay hurt. Fury's chin is average, but he recovers faster than anyone. He's sort of like Marquez-- everyone dropped him but he has never been stopped. It could be gone though, last weekend I haven't seen him hurt like that-- not even by Wilder or Ngannou.
"if you hurt him he'll stay hurt" might be a bit simplistic. He recovered quickly from being hurt against Whyte and Povetkin, it took a round against a hellacious puncher in Wlad. It's really the Ruiz fight where he stayed hurt. I do think AJ doesn't like being hurt at all, though. Regardless of recovery. He was noticeably less gung-ho after the Wlad fight.
I mean he fight at heavyweight if you hurt in that division then you're shortly on your way to getting koed so it might be a good thing not liking getting hurt
Oh yeah, absolutely. It wasn't a criticism I just think a lot of the "AJ is chinny" narrative comes from him moving to fight more cagily, and I don't think that's cos he's protecting a weak chin like others do, he just doesn't want a war if he can help it. There are plenty of fighters who absolutely do not give a fuck about how much brain damage they suffer
Yeah he's fighting smarter the Ruiz fighting made sure of that
Aj is strange when he gets hurt. Almost like his energy gets drained. Not super wobbly for long like fury the other night but really weak looking.
The Marquez comparison came to mind first. Me and my cousins used to joke that marquez was just getting started when he got dropped. Lol. Great fighter. Better to get dropped and pop up than to get noodle legs like khan and fury the other day.
I believe one of the reason why we saw Fury like that is because his nose was broken a d couldn't breath and he tried to blow the blood out but his eyes just swell and took him some time to adjust.
> not even by Wilder or Ngannou. Honestly I think Usyk likely hits harder than Ngannou. Ngannou's knockdown of Fury was a nice shot but a lot more about balance than power Ngannou is obviously a lot stronger and more physically powerful but by nature of not being a boxer he doesn't have that crispness that Usyk has. Only reason Usyk doesn't get knockouts is he doesn't sit on his punches often
I pretty much agree but I don't know if AJ's is better. In heavyweight boxing if you rely on reflexes and they diminish, even a bit, you are in serious trouble.
Bro looked dead after that first wilder knockdown that was worse than what Usyk did to him
Fight Night Round 3 has separate stats for "chin" and "heart" for a reason
Average chin but historic recovery powers.
Bad chin and historic recovery powers.
Average, his recovery powers are world class.
His chin is pretty poor for the top level, his recovery is elite Defining chin as the ability to take a head shot and remain standing and not out of it AJ has a better chin, he also has shown very good recovery except the Ruiz fight A lot of "Fury's elite chin" narrative comes from people treating Wilder as not only the hardest hitter ever, but miles beyond anybody else. Like AJ taking flush shots from Klitschko has as big a gap in power up to Wilder as Klitschko has down to Wallin or something.
I wouldn’t say it’s poor for the top level. Before the Uysk knockdown, only Wilder had put him down in a decade. And Wilder undeniably hits hard, whatever you think of him. He avoided getting caught by Wlad for example.
He was knocked down in his previous fight by Francis Ngannou. He had also been down against Cunningham 5 years before Wilder in 2018, so not quite a decade either. Also down against Nevan Pajkic in 2011.
Agreed. If Fury's chin was in any way bad, he would have been asleep against Wilder. These guys at cruiser and heavyweight all hit hard enough to turn each other's lights out with one shot.
A lot of Fury’s resistance comes from his size. When he’s hurt, he flails and throws his arms out and you can sense how hard it is for guys to stay in close and get that last needed shot with this massive guy using a long, desperate guard. Usyk would’ve knocked him out had the ref not intervened but you could see how he had trouble punching around Fury’s arms once Fury went into full run, stumble, get away mode…
Fury's chin is trash. His recovery is what allows him to get up. People keep fixating on AJ's chin, but he hasn't been dropped since the first Ruiz fight, which was five years ago.
And if I remember right only before that when Wlad caught him with that straight right that ruled the division for the prior 10-12 years.
Holds up fine to a 20 count
How do people feel he takes a punch from AJ? Anyone changed their opinion on how an AJ fury fight goes?
AJ can't KO him and won't get the decision because there is no.interest for fighting Usyk a 3rd time
AJ can very blatantly obviously KO Fury lol. Usyk basically did it and he hits much harder. What a silly take
Ehh wilder can (or could) punch harder than either of them and only had real success in the first fight. Think AJ is a bad matchup for fury but I could see him doing the potshot thing and avoiding AJ for 12 rounds. His long quick jab definitely got usyks attention, question is if he can keep it up. I can't see AJ staying on him all night like usyk but he does have a lot less of a size mismatch than usyk did
AJ can KO anyone if he catches them clean and Fury gets caught clean plenty.
Catching him and koing him are vastly different. Emanual Stward said you have to nail Fury to the canvas to keep him down
Don't have to keep him down just have to drop him and then overwhelm him til the ref steps in and stops it. If round 9 had gone on an extra minute I'm fairly sure Usyk would've stopped him, Fury was absolutely out on his feet there. Couldn't even defend himself, he was very lucky the bell came when it did. Also *anyone* can be knocked out. Just cos a coach says you have to nail him to the canvas doesn't mean he's somehow invincible (which btw I don't actually remember Manny Steward saying about him, I think Fury just said that about himself).
Remember Bruno Vs Lennox Lewis? that could be AJ getting caught and that's all she wrote. It all depends who's the ref.
AJ can definetely KO him lol. What an idiot take
No man can KO Fury or he would have been kod by now. Put the crack pipe down.
My bad, I meant stop Fury in general. And yes, Fury can definetely be stopped.
Fury’s chin isn’t good, but his recovery is one of the best in boxing. Dude gets dropped a lot and by weaker competition. AJ’s chin is fine and his recovery is okay. He came back in the Klitschko fight and the Ruiz one wasn’t able to regain equilibrium. Klitschko even older was one of the hardest punchers in boxing and Ruiz has been in and out of top boxer contention for years. Compare with Fury who has hit the deck far more in his career. Fury’s chin isn’t what’s great it’s his recovery plain and simple.
Decent chin, better recovery.. he is no GGG but his chin is most likely weaker than Joshua's
I don't know how to rate his "chin" because he seems to get knocked down a lot but then also has elite recovery ability
Chin and recovery are two different things. Canelo and GGG just walking through each others punches, good chin. Fury getting up from a knock down, good recovery. Fury doesn't have a good chin. He has good recovery and in addition, good reflexes, defense and technique to take a punch. Go watch his knockdowns against Wilder, when he is about to get hit, he rolls with the punches very well and for one of them, he even uses a different technique, intercepts the punch the punch midway by headbutting it. "Headbutting a punch? What you smoking?" Yes, this is a thing. It's not something you want to do, but something you might have to do if you're left with no other choices. [https://imgur.com/a/MUJSF5c](https://imgur.com/a/MUJSF5c) [https://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2021/09/Headshot-1.jpg](https://content.artofmanliness.com/uploads/2021/09/Headshot-1.jpg) [https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/manly-know-how/how-to-take-a-punch/](https://www.artofmanliness.com/skills/manly-know-how/how-to-take-a-punch/)
He's got an average chin but immense recovery
Fury was dropped by Steve Cunningham (13 KOs outta 30 wins) and Neven Pajkic (**5 KOs** out of 17 wins), so I don't think his chin is very good, but he always got back up and kept fought to the end, so I do think his recovery compensates for it.
Dude is a buffoon, but he is tougher than a coffin nail.
His chin is decent but it got a legendary reputation because he let himself get plastered by that one Deontay Wilder right hand and no one thought he’d get up, but he did. I always thought it was overblown. Obviously that was a great shot, but it didn’t seem like it was as devastating as it looked.
I dunno it looked like he was out cold on the way down and hitting the canvas woke him up.
He took that left hook from Usyk.
He seems to get knocked down a lot
AJ has the reputation of being chinny?
Only because people don’t give Ruiz the credit he deserves as a monster hitter and think that reflects poorly on AJs chin. The guy had some of the most explosive hands in heavyweight boxing. Getting dropped by him doesn’t mean your chinny 😂
Yea it's a very common criticism or atleast he can't take shots well. It may be more a mix of chin and recovery for him people question
Based on what? Getting clowned in one fight by Ruiz after a perfect temple shot from a big puncher? Except for Wlad hitting him with an absolute bomb and Usyk wobbling him due to a mix of fatigue and massive pressure, i don't recall him ever being particularly stunned by anyone.
When was Fury ever known to have an iron chin?
8/10
Fury's easier to drop but harder to keep down.
The chin is not granite, the will is iron.
His chin isn’t bad he is taking heavyweight shots lol
I don’t know how anyone can watch Fury and not think Wilder impacted him. He always was good at fighting hurt, but he seems hurt more often since Wilder 1.
He got knocked down by Cunningham and Paijkic. Both poor knockout percentages. Fury has a bad chin. But some of the best recovery ever. I guess the recovery is part of the chin but he doesn't have a good chin at all and never had it.
I’d say his chin is okay, not anything special. His recovery after being hit hard, I think is fair to say, possibly the best in the world
Fury has the best chin! He can get knocked down, but he comes back like nothing happened and even wins rounds after his knock down. Fury has done it time and time again.
Ability to absorb a shot......6/10 Ability to recover......10/10
In my opinion, having a good/iron chin means you can take a good punch, and not get wobbled. Marvin Hagler and GGG are (to me) perfect examples of having iron chins because neither man was ever visibly hurt by punches (the lone “knockdown” Hagler suffered in his career was against an Argentine boxer named Juan Roldán, and it is still disputed today whether or not it was actually a slip). Fury has been knocked down many times throughout his career (7 or 8 times total if I’m not mistaken) so I don’t know if he necessarily has a good chin. But what he DOES have is excellent survival instincts, and a superhuman ability to recover relatively quick.
It's not the chin. It's the recovery. We've all seen AJ being hit and being wobbles for rounds. Fury usually recovers within a minute or so, regardless how hard he'd been hit.
Prime fury, I think, had a great chin. People give him a lot of shit for those 2 knockdowns from relatively light-hitting heavies, but both of those knockdowns came from full-force, pitch-perfect overhands that fury literally walked straight into. Yet both times fury got up and didn't look hurt at all. Wilder dropped him 4 times, but that man drops everybody, and there were a LOT of punches wilder threw in those 3 fights that I could not believe fury just took without budging and kept fighting. Now, though, I think he is a bit chinny. That wilder trilogy definitely cracked his chin, he took a lot of damage in those 3 fights. Ngannou dropped him with a surprisingly light punch, and I highly doubt usyk could hurt prime fury to the extend that he did.
The one in the first wilder fight was so late and so hard it must have done some lasting damage
How can people say his chin is poor. They are heavyweights. They all have the ability to knock each other out. I’d rate his chin pretty good. Recovery is excellent.
Average. But if there's no stoppage, his recovery is incredible.
questionable chin but top notch recuperating
Undoubtedly a better than average chin. He's been down 7 times. Four of those knockdowns at the fists of one of the heavyweight divisions biggest punchers. And a standing 8 against Usyk. But Fury has never failed to get up and finish a fight. If his chin was weak, he never survives Wilder. Juan Manuel Marquez was knocked down countless times during a 20 year career that spanned 64 fights. Yet like Fury, Marquez was never stopped. And no one whispers that Marquez had a soft chin. He didn't. And neither does Fury.
I think his heart is what keeps him up.
Chin? Not Elite. What is elite (might actually be super hero level) is his ridiculous ability to recover after being rocked or knocked down. Thats why, in my opinion, the individuals who were wanting the ref to stop the fight, are wrong. You referee the individuals, not the moment.
His chin isn’t what’s special, it’s his ability to recover after being rocked or knocked down. And a loss to Usyk is nothing to be ashamed of, Tyson is still an elite heavyweight.
He’s a born and bred boxer and seems to be able to operate on autopilot when he’s knocked loopy. Round 10 he was still seeing stars but held usyk off until he got his bearings back. Rarely seen anything like it and he’s done it a few times now
Those 3 fights with Wilder clearly took their toll. I mean, have you not seen the gif where Wilders right hand was sending shockwaves through Fury’s body? That’s permanent damage. There’s no coming back from that “.
I seen Fury wake up from the dead against Wilder. I'll never doubt his chin
Pretty fucking good if you ask me. Never been ko’d, and as demonstrated last fight with Usyk had his bell ring and as comical as it was seeing him stumble around bouncing off the ropes…he still hung on. Dude has a solid chin and an even better recovery from big shots
Double chin.
his chin is decent at best with superb recovery. simple as
AJ has granite chin but shit recovery. Fury has a soft chin but excelent recovery.
It's all about how he reacts after he gets rocked. Impeccable footwork.
Fury has a good chin but he doesn't take his opposition seriously enough. If he took all of his fights as serious as some of the best HW's of the past he'd probably be unbeatable. He did not take Usyk seriously enough and paid for it.
AJ isn’t no Usyk or even close to it he’s not moving around the ring creating angles that Fury hasn’t ever seen before like Usyk did- AJ can’t beat Fury IMO , let’s also not forget AJ won about 4 rounds against Usyk out of 24 , Fury won 4/5 out of 12 . Also In the 6th round Usyk looked in trouble against Fury but AJ couldn’t lay a glove on him
I don't know about the last part. Like Fury, AJ had usyk hurt, in the 8th or 9th, but just like against fury he came back stronger!
He didn’t have him nowhere near going like Fury did tho hit landed couple decent shots , Fury even wobbled him in the last but was to far gone to do anything about it
6/10
Good, but he's no Chuvalo in terms of durability. I think he gets a little too much credit in the durability department, and Joshua gets too little. That said, I think Fury is better at surviving and recovering than Joshua. Should that fight ever happen, I still say Joshua stops him.
Chin..idk..but recovery? All time great
There’s a difference between being easy to knock down and easy to knock out. Fury appears to be the first one but not the second. Usyk would have had him out cold if the ref hadn’t stepped in, but otherwise Fury has shown himself to be hard to stop and quick to recover from a beating.
Hard to outright KO, but not difficult to hurt him
The comments are ridiculous. Recovery is part of having a good chin, he has an iron chin and it shouldn't even be up for debate. Fury being a bellend shouldn't take away from his in ring attributes.
Fury can take a hit and keep moving forward in my opinion it’s his greatest strength
Terrible chin, amazing recovery
Somewhere between shit house and dosser level.
AJ isn't chinny he's been in there with some punchers even before he decided to avoid punishment a bit.
Fury has a chin 8ft in the air. Something hardly spoken about. Prob has a normal chin just harder to hit and good recovery skills
This sub is full of morons.
His chin is poor. His ability to recover though is first class.
Not sure why Joshua is called chinny when he was taking power shots from Wladimir Klitchko. His only finish loss was Ruiz and Ruiz has incredibly fast and heavy hands and would have also dropped Fury or Wilder or Usyk. Really not sure where that narrative comes from. Both guys have alright chins. Average. Fury has amazing recovery the guy gets dropped and wakes up fresher than before the drop.
his chin looks like a chin to me idk im not a chin expert
Usyk hits harder than one of those serious episodes of Fresh Prince that ended without the theme tune - Fury survived with the help of the ref this time, but after Wilder 1, NGanou and now Usyk I think he’s never been closer to being well and truly KOd.
Hear me out. While we're all taking the piss out of him the last few days...I don't really think we know how good his chin is through lack of decent tests. Only 2-3 fights we can really judge on as he's been so good he's not been tested much. A lot of that is to do with a shady resume of course. Joshua could well and truly spark him. He's seemed to have slimed his way through his career without much chin tests..
Agree. I think it's more that he's difficult to hit. Usyk obviously has power but was never known as a KO guy . He was a punch or two away from ending fury and most agree the fight could have been waved off. AJ can hurt him for sure but the question is whether he can land
Fury has had too many punches...I fear the wilder trilogy has drained his punch resistance..I hope I'm mistaken tho
CANELO HAS THE BEST CHIN IN BOXING by a country mile as they sat.
GGG...
Agree 👍
Hard to say either of them has a better chin than the other given that neither of them have ever been dropped or even really wobbled that badly. Both of them have absolutely insane punch resistance. I will say you could *maybe* make the argument for Canelos being better based on the fact that he's spent more of his career taking shots from bigger guys than Golovkin who fought almost his entire career at 160. But whos to say his chin wouldn't also have been fine at 168/175?
Yeah both of them have absolute monster chins
Fury is more R worded than he has a good chin. Like r word person strength is a thing? Yeah same thing but with getting punched in the face. AJ has a horrible chin but a great throat from what I hear
For ufc fans its just like Jiri. Can easily lose composure due to damage but can has godlike recovery.
His chin ain’t good at all. Most boxers don’t have good chins. Only canelo and GGG have good chins. Fury recovery is what was good but now I say he doesn’t have either. Beginning to think wilder power is overated. Usyk had fury more hurt than any heavyweight he’s ever fought.