Fury would make Vitali really unsure of himself in the ring...but even Fury's deabilitating 271lb slap-hooks wouldn't get the stoppage. Cuts would be fun. Fury on points.
The Vitali that fought Kevin Johnson and JC Gomez would beat Fury......the version that stopped Sanders would stop Fury. Vitali had the ability to deal with that shape-shifting bullshit......Fury wouldn't dare turn Southpaw on him, Vitali had those guys figured out late in his career. He'd make Fury doubt himself, he'd get in with long rights to the body and Fury wouldn't be able to ragdoll him in the clinches like he did Wilder. Also Vitali throws weird shots.......so Fury's signal jamming would eventually start to break down. A horrific ugly fight by the way, I can see Fury being ahead after 6 but Vitali start to finally get through with single big rights as the fight wears on.
The thing is if you couldn;'t really batter Vitali, if you had no way to keep him off, then he was just persistent enough. And he never made the mistake of looking for a KO when he could just as easy go the long route. Guys like Larry Donald knew how to box and had a good chin, Klitschko found a way to get at him. I think that;s the mentality that sees him past Fury, what's Fury going to do when he pulls a face, twitches his head and Vitali leaps in and hits him anyways. And as I say, an awful fight.
Vitali's like an in-between guy of these eras - cause while I don't consider him as good as the "Big 4" (Lewis, Tyson, Holy, Bowe) I consider him head and shoulders above the three guys running the division right now.
I would favour Vitali slightly but it would be a horrible, awkward fight, and very competitive. Vitali isn't "beating the shit" out of Fury, that's just hyperbole. A guy with Fury's length, IQ and footwork is never going to be easy for Vitali.
I've never seen Fury really fight tired. I've seen him fight hurt, as I have Vitali, but only the John McD fight {first time...when he was like..."Get the water on me, get the water on me"} have I seen him fight tired. I think he comes apart a bit when he is tired., as opposed to hurt. Vitali made them all tired, including big old Lewis who was sat down like he needed a drink and beddy bye byes even in a fight he had got the upper hand {or upper cut{s}} in. And yes, it's a spectacle of a fight, probably one we should be glad we never got to see. But remember this shit, isn't Haye a lucky lucky boy this never came off??
I watched that interview yesterday funnily enough, yeah Haye dodged a bullet there. Fury was a chubby kid who hadn't gone the distance when he lost to McDermott (who was underrated skillwise and had bags of experience at that level). Fury is a completely different fighter now and his stamina has looked absolutely fine, he was able to move constantly for 12 rounds against Wlad and Wilder. The movement and size will give Vitali problems but I think Klitschko would edge it on points. Awful, awful (but intriguing) fight.
If the Klitschkos, Povetkin, Haye, Fury, Josh and Wilder had all been going at the same time, we'd have had a hell of a division. Especially if you throw in warm up acts like Curious Joe Parker, Whyte, Fat Ruiz, Arreola etc.
Yeah, vitaly was a model of determination in the byrd fight. Really showed how well he dealt with slickness. Fury ud that euro-bot while snorting cokes and getting blown by hookers between rounds
The first McDermott fight is irrelevant to fury career, cause a) he beat him handily in a rematch and b) he beat much much better fighter afterward. We cant cay the same for the byrd fight for vitaly cause, he never beat someone as good as byrd (pathetically enough). Its insane how much credit vitaly gets for getting his face rearranged by an old fat lewis, and harpooning a few whales
Who has Wilder beat? Stiverne? Fucking Szpilka? A glorified football hooligan? Ortiz? Quit in the rematch. Failed a drugs test. Never out cold. Szpilka got wasted by a guy that Fury beat the shit out of 10 years ago. This Wilder shit has to end. He's no killer. It's funny.........once Joshua lost, people immediately re-examined his career, and even after he "avenged it", people continued to shy away. But Wilder? No. He lives on through his past "Glories". Fucking Molina? That other bum that Joshua already beat? It's the WORST WBC HVY Weight Reusme of ALL TIME.
Lets pretend that he never got a draw against fury the first time around. And cause ortiz never was out cold these fights doesn't count pr should count less? What kind of fucked up logic is that?