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MookJong said:
Wonder how Klitschko feels about this, no chance to write the wrong. You will forever have that mark on your career that you were beaten by a clown.
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I don't know what was going on in that fight but Klitschko didn't even try for 90% of the fight. Did he intend to throw it for financial reasons, or did he have a massive bet on winning in the 12th but just left himself too much to do? He fought for one round in that fight and almost had him down. The 12th was like watching well a champion vs a junior in his first fight, the gulf in quality between him in that round and Fury in any round was ridiculous.

I think he was probably getting dipping interest and money for his fights because... he wins every one of them. So figured pick the worst fighter, lose it, and increase interest by getting a rematch then future fights people will believe he's more easily beatable. Fury went through that match like a bum with zero talent and Klitschko didn't do anything at all till the final round.
 
Not sure why people continue to struggle with the idea that Fury beat him fair and square. It was a terrible matchup for Klitschko and he got beat exactly the same way he's beaten the majority of his opponents over the last 10 years.
 
Pigeon_Killer said:
Not sure why people continue to struggle with the idea that Fury beat him fair and square. It was a terrible matchup for Klitschko and he got beat exactly the same way he's beaten the majority of his opponents over the last 10 years.
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Probably because I watched the fight. How many boxers do absolutely nothing for 11 rounds then go from 1st to 400th gear in the final round? The usual situation is boxers are at their best either in the opening rounds or after their opponent has tired a bit. Fury fought incredibly badly in every single round. His punches were missing, there was zero quality, his movement was horrible. Klitschko wasn't being outboxed in the first 11 rounds, as in, someone wasn't preventing him from throwing punches or moving, he just didn't do so for whatever reason. Fury did exactly nothing different in the 12th round but Klitschko stopped purposefully holding back and he was immediately 10 times the fighter either had shown at any point in the fight.

It was overall a horribly bad fight start to finish, zero quality, zero impressive rounds by Fury, only one worthy round by Klitschko. He definitely didn't beat him fair and square, Klitschko had some reason for not trying for 11 rounds, he tried in the 12th and made Fury look embarrassingly bad. If Klitschko had actually started fighting in the 11th, Fury would have gotten KO'd before the end of the fight.
 
Whyte leaves himself too open and only looks for KO punches rather than punches to open up his opponent.

Only reason Joshua got caught was because Whyte got under his skin before the fight. A rematch goes the same way unless Whyte gets any fatter in which case it'll be over quicker.

Edit: Joshua vs Klitschko possible? :D
 
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