It’s crazy cause Wilder has that baddest man on the planet persona…but Fury stay having him look literally like a baby in ring. Dude be all wide eyed and gasping for air with a terrified look on his face. nikka be out there looking like a newborn.
People talking about wilder's new weight but I think the above is most likely why he was so gassed (we kinda saw him looking similar against ortiz until he disintegrated ortiz head). When you're actually in there fighting someone who keeps landing hard shots on you it does something that saps your energy. I dunno what it is, nervous energy I suppose, but just the process of you not being able to land and them cracking you changes the way you use your energy
When I'm sparring someone in a 50/50 or even a tech spar with someone better than me my stamina is great because I'm calm and I can easily stay in the ring all day. As soon as that person on a level above me starts turning on the power and I start missing, getting countered, eating hard shots then it's fukking draining
The truth is that wilder has 42 fights and has only ever fought 3 top 10 ranked opponents so he might just not have the experience of keeping calm and preserving energy when someone puts him under pressure
Nah them blows was heavy, and they knocked him a bit. Sometimes dudes don’t look at all rattled until they try get up and their knees buckle. That’s why Fury was sitting on the canvas. He was playing it smart and buying his time. He knew what he was doing. If you get up to quick off a strong punch it can make you fallout..
This always brings zab judah to mind. I'm so sure that if he hadn't tried to get up so quickly against tszyu he would have recovered better
99.9% of the people that watch these mega fights are casuals and don't follow boxing, that's why you see all these dumbass talking about a "slow count by the ref".
Fam, I seen people talking about 12 rounds is too long as if guys didn't use to fight for 15 rounds. shyt, back in the jack johnson days they'd go 20-30 rounds