The more I see of Fury and Wilder, the more convinced I become that the rest of the division couldn’t live with Wilder let alone Fury. Joshua at his very best may well do but if Wilder caught him with a trademark pile driver? Do we really think that he could rise and carry on like Fury evidently can?
I’ve long been an admirer of Usyk’s ring craft. His technical ability allied to an indomitable spirit took him to the very top of the cruiserweight class but he’s in with men of rather a different stripe now. Although it was no great surprise to me when he defeated Joshua (I still had Joshua pegged to win though), I think if Wilder caught him with that big right hand, he’d go down and stay there. Wilder does have a knack of being able to use his power to overcome any shortfall in technique and despite his 2-0 trilogy defeat by the fists of Fury, I certainly think he should carry on.
I’d simply love to see Fury and Joshua go toe to toe and if AJ can overcome Usyk in their rematch, it might just happen. Should Usyk win again, Fury would surely get his chance at unification and I don’t see Usyk, for all his vaunted qualities, coping with a harder hitting, longer reaching, giant of a man like Fury especially when Fury arguably has the sweet science down to a still greater degree. His only hope would be to pick the big man off when he could then get the hell out of dodge and Fury might just be too old a cat to be f**ked kittens should that be any potential opponents’ game plan. T’would be good to watch though.
The Gypsy King’s reign may be a long one if he can keep his demons down.
