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Not what I said, but anyway. I said defensively he's as good as any boxer of the last fifty years. He is. Technically, his foot work and hand speed are also comparable with any boxer if the the past half century. He is a much better technical boxer then many give him credit for.
And his size means he would be hard for anyone to shift (that said Primo Carnera and Nikolai Valuev were big units and it didn't do them any favours). But there is more to being a good boxer than good footwork and a big frame, which is why I did not go anywhere near claiming he is some sort of GOAT.
As you say, definitely preferred Lewis for sheer size and strength and outside the UK there are plenty, like Foreman for example, who would have done him. But you can only fight what is in front of you, Ali beat Dunne, London, and a good few more that could have been called easy pickings. Joe Louis had his bum of the month club but it didn't stop him being regarded as a great.
Tyson Fury is not just a big spoiler and he has fought big names, it's so easy now to say Wilder was there for the taking. Most would have him favourite against AJ and he'd probably be too big for Usyk.
I like Tyson, he's a good boxer and should be remembered as such. That's all I'm saying, but you have fun digging for a squabble if it makes you happy.

Jeez, we Brits sure love to knock 'em down don't we?
- When Fury beat Klitschko he went to his (effective) back yard and beat a champ making his eighteenth defence of this title
- Fury didn't just beat Wilder once, he beat him three times, each and every one in his back yard. When he fought him he was undefeated in 43 fights and had made ten defences of his title
- Fury too the Dillian Whyte that everyone had been dodging for three years, the longest ever spell as number one contender
To repeat, Tyson Fury is not the greatest (even Brit) of all time, and I absolutely agree with you that he needs that unification fight for his legacy, as @Alpha pointed out so well I won't go further. But if he's barely mentioned in 20-30 years then - back to my very first point - history will have been very unkind to him.

Jeez, we Brits sure love to knock 'em down don't we?
- When Fury beat Klitschko he went to his (effective) back yard and beat a champ making his eighteenth defence of this title
- Fury didn't just beat Wilder once, he beat him three times, each and every one in his back yard. When he fought him he was undefeated in 43 fights and had made ten defences of his title
- Fury too the Dillian Whyte that everyone had been dodging for three years, the longest ever spell as number one contender
To repeat, Tyson Fury is not the greatest (even Brit) of all time, and I absolutely agree with you that he needs that unification fight for his legacy, as @Alpha pointed out so well I won't go further. But if he's barely mentioned in 20-30 years then - back to my very first point - history will have been very unkind to him.

If he doesn't fight the winner of Usyk v AJ then he'll regret it forever and it will tarnish his legacy. 
But I can't imagine him not taking that fight. There's no way he walks away from that no matter what he says. He didn't get to this point in his career to stop here when he just sold 94k and is finally getting the love he should have had after Klitschko. If he didn't come back for these kind of fights then what did he come back for? To fight Deontay Wilder? Just all the way back for Wilder, a guy who sold just a few thousand tickets each fight. 
 
He came for stadium selling AJ who gave fresh life into boxing and was taking all the credit Fury hadn't had. Fury had only ever really praised or ignored Joshua until Joshua became superstar. Then he suddenly can't shut up about him. But he fights Deontay Wilder and says he's not interested in AJ. Then he defends vs Whyte... did he really need to? 
The only way he doesn't fight Joshua imo is if AJ loses. But he can still collect from Usyk now. Its not what he planned when he went to get that WBC bargaining chip. But I don't think he expected Joshua to lose to Ruiz and catapult Fury to #1. 
It's just all fell better than he expected. But he came back to get what he's owed. Recognition that he is the #1 of an era. If he could live with the doubt he would have stayed retired. 
Let's no forget his whole life crumbled when he beat Klitschko and had no purpose. He's being driven by something again and I don't think Dillian Whyte was the final piece. 
He's always played the long game. Like the sauna story. Retiring is just him forcing them to chase him. Mayweather did it. It's role reversal and he'll be calling the shots in July when Usyk/AJ need to beat Fury for their legacy.

Oh no, I didn't mean you said they had it easy. I meant in general when people make comparisons they'll say that Mike Tyson had to fight this guy and that guy. Lewis had all these guys
That all Fury had to do was beat an old Klitschko. 
The football I just mentioned because like in any sport the game evolves. The techniques, the strategies, the sports science. Every sport has a different "META" for what's out there. 
Look at the names of any great era and I think during that time you see big names that are past it (like Holyfield v Holmes, Lewis v Tyson) that boost the rep of the fighter of that generation. 
There were plenty of Whyte's, Chisora's and Co that were there for Ali, Tyson, Holyfield and Lewis. I'd imagine some of them Fury, Klitschko, Usyk and AJ would have no trouble with. Especially Fury given his size, speed, ability. 
I think its very much like Messi v Pele. There's no way to know if Pele could do it against Sergio Ramos as there's no way Messi would appreciate some of the interesting pitches and tackles. 
I see the argument on YT channels and they all get well caught up in it. Start abusing each other. ? 
Anyone can only beat whats in front of them. But I still think Klitschko went a long time fighting names that were neither relevant to the previous generation or the current generation. It seemed much of a meh division for a while
Remember that big lump Valuev!!?

Not as varied as Merritt Wever, who is in that thing where she gets ducked by a duck. Only caught it on Gogglebox but that didn't quite fit the bill (if you see what I did there)

And if you have mixed views are you a happy slasher?

'Well done Pike, I wondered who would be first to spot that'

Maybe that shows I haven't' actually accepted the relegation myself!
My point is that its going to take a while - I'd like it to happen next season - but snatching at it without some foundations in place could be a disaster.
I will be happy eating my kit-kat in the gloom of the Kassam, watching a dull 0 - 0 knowing we are £1.19 in credit with the bank.
 

But we won't be in the same division as Everton/Burnley/Norwich/Watford next season? So why is that a point?
Stopping the rot is called administration. Yes, we need to get out of that but to do that we need to prove that the rot has rotted, been cut out and removed.
Rebuild will certainly take a while, look at any of the clubs that have gone down in our state. All the way back to Burnley, Wolves (both of these two went all the way to the bottom), Forest, Sunderland, Charlton, Leeds. It's going to take a bit more than those over on Twitter who think we just need to resign Chris Martin and Shinnie, convince Curtis to stay and possibly sign back Marriott.
I'm not having a pop at you but making a general comment - it's just amazing that we are in the middle of what we (OK - Mel) did and still the answer is to go out and buy in a whole new squad for an instant push back.

I think the HW division now is as good as it was for most of Wlad's reign

I do hope history remembers the last three words of this. Defensively I don't think there has been a better heavyweight than Fury since Cassius Clay (and I say that on purpose). Offensively he might not bang like a young Mike Tyson but in his ability to execute the 'sweet science' I'm struggling to think of a heavyweight who has shown an ability to think his way through a fight like Fury, strangely possibly only Usyk, maybe Holyfield, come close. He was right what he said in his press conference, he's as good as there has been and good on him if he ends ups being only the second heavyweight champ to take an '0' into retirement.

Don't buy stuff Don't buy stuff you can't afford Don't buy stuff you can't afford using a credit card / Klarna or any other line of credit Don't beat yourself up when you didn't buy the thing you couldn't afford. You didn't need it anyway.  

Don't buy stuff Don't buy stuff you can't afford Don't buy stuff you can't afford using a credit card / Klarna or any other line of credit Don't beat yourself up when you didn't buy the thing you couldn't afford. You didn't need it anyway.  

Don't buy stuff Don't buy stuff you can't afford Don't buy stuff you can't afford using a credit card / Klarna or any other line of credit Don't beat yourself up when you didn't buy the thing you couldn't afford. You didn't need it anyway.  

Don't buy stuff Don't buy stuff you can't afford Don't buy stuff you can't afford using a credit card / Klarna or any other line of credit Don't beat yourself up when you didn't buy the thing you couldn't afford. You didn't need it anyway.  

Don't buy stuff Don't buy stuff you can't afford Don't buy stuff you can't afford using a credit card / Klarna or any other line of credit Don't beat yourself up when you didn't buy the thing you couldn't afford. You didn't need it anyway.  

Don't buy stuff Don't buy stuff you can't afford Don't buy stuff you can't afford using a credit card / Klarna or any other line of credit Don't beat yourself up when you didn't buy the thing you couldn't afford. You didn't need it anyway.  

Don't buy stuff Don't buy stuff you can't afford Don't buy stuff you can't afford using a credit card / Klarna or any other line of credit Don't beat yourself up when you didn't buy the thing you couldn't afford. You didn't need it anyway.  

Wow, took a brave heart to make that gag

I was at Uni in Newcastle and my first year there they had Waddle, Beardsley and Gascoigne in the side. Not too shabby!
Gascoigne was something else, and the thing that people forget (which they did point out in the doc) was just how strong he was on the ball and when running back. Right up until that tackle he was on the edge of being one of the best players to ever pull on an England shirt. Sadly, his fragile mental state meant that it was never likely to last - one way or another. To see him now (he was on Mortimer and Whitehouse last series) is just so sad, he knows he didn't have the mental capacity to handle everything that was thrown at him. Not many of us get to ever find out what we can't handle and Gazza has to carry that knowledge with him now forever.
But, as a footballer, something else!
P.S. the opening clip of Gazza playing is largely against a Derby County side in that blue chequered away kit, many faces to get a sneaking peek of.

Time is the only opponent these guys can't beat. Joe Louis got whupped off Rocky Marciano but I don't think there's many would say Rocky would have beaten Louis in his prime. Similarly, Trevor Berbick beat Ali, Calzaghe beat Roy Jones (and Hopkins) and the list goes on.
I thought GGG won the first fight, second was hard to call but probably fair to give to Alvarez. For the third, GGG is taking it for money and nothing else. He got Murata, in the end, but that was a fighter Golovkin would have blown out of there in three rounds in his prime. And I agree, he looked like he was struggling to take the shots early on. Only one result in this one if it happens.....

The truth of it is that Boris Johnson literally could not do a walkabout in any city in the UK today - such is the feeling against him. Never mind stab vests, the point that needs considering is that the Prime Minister of this country is more free to walk the streets of a war zone than he is of the country he is supposed to be representing.

The truth of it is that Boris Johnson literally could not do a walkabout in any city in the UK today - such is the feeling against him. Never mind stab vests, the point that needs considering is that the Prime Minister of this country is more free to walk the streets of a war zone than he is of the country he is supposed to be representing.

GGG was robbed in the first fight. He 100% won, but boxing politics dictated he didn’t to keep the Canelo cash cow going.
Boxing is a beautiful but corrupt sport. 

Strummer hated this song, he called it Mick Jones' "Keith Richards moment"