It was an above average win, made better that he travelled abroad to do it. The performance just doesn't warrant him moving up a P4P list, IMO.If Chisora beat Haye who was 210 lbs and 37 lbs lighter when they fought: Don't you think he would have deserved a good jump up the rankings?
Cunningham was a top 10/15 ranked heavyweight fighter when they fought, it was a world class win against a small heavyweight. Not many fighters in the rankings have a win against someone as good as Cunningham.
Sorry, but that 'nature of his division' line isn't good enough reasoning for me.I actually agree with you raising Fury though. Yeah he outweighed Cunningham but that's the nature of his division. It's still a better win that most of the others in this list have.
He deserves credit for the way he changed things up, got himself back into the fight, and eventually forced the stoppage. But even though Cunningham was considered at least a fringe contender at heavyweight, the struggle to beat him despite the huge size advantage and being a big pre-fight favourite means I can't rate it highly.Even though I normally agree with that viewpoint, Kos - it's the reason I didn't rate Wlad's win over Haye as highly as some others did. But in this case, I think Fury does deserve credit for it. Yes, Fury holds a significant size advantage over most of his division and I've said before that it's the main reason he's a "prospect", but in terms of the Cunningham win it was still impressive-ish. At least IMO.
Cleverly's win over Krasniqi means much less to me.
He was world class at cruiserweight, but even before he jumped up he looked like he was past it. Essentially beating Adamek, who has been distinctly average since moving up himself, does not convince me he is at world level at heavyweight.He knocked out a world class fighter, so he definitely deserved to move up the rankings.
No.It would be similar if Clottey had come up to the light heavyweight division and lost a very controversial decision against Cloud before fighting Bellew.
I don't get this notion that just because someone is considered top 10 in a division it automatically makes them 'world class'. There are only 6/7 boxers at the weight that I would put in that bracket right now; Adamek isn't one of them.What wins would you think were good for Fury at heavyweight?
Adamek is a top 10 heavyweight, beating him at heavyweight is a world class win.
--- Top guys ---Who are the world class heavyweights?
