Of course Joshua has the better resume but that doesn't mean he's the better fighter.
I think Fury's 2 wins against a younger and fresher Chisora get down played a bit too, the older Chisora took Parker the distance, beat Takam, arguably beat Whyte in his first fight and was beating him in the rematch.
As someone said the way Fury handled Chisora makes me think he'd handle the smaller fighters like Whyte, Parker, Povetkin and Takam.
If you look at both fighters best wins you might say they are against Klitschko. Fury drew with and beat Wilder also. After those fighter's theres a drop off in the standard. I know Wilder isn't as skilled as someone like Povetkin but he was still very dangerous and with his punching power he was always classed as being on the same tier as AJ and Fury.
Joshua's record is better on paper because he's beaten more fighters from the second tier, people like Parker, Whyte etc. However if you are evaluating a fight then surely you've got to look at how AJ and Fury have looked against the absolute elite. Forget how poor Fury looks against poor fighters because he raises his game when he's fighting someone dangerous.
Good argument
If you take Klitcko out of the equation then I suppose a lot of it comes down to how you rate Wilder, and I don't at all. He has no good wins, does not look classy/ have good technique, has not fought abroad, has fought nobody in the top 10 and gets extremely rattled when hit.
If I was trying to big up Fury I would probably play down on the Wilder win(s). The best thing to come out of that is how he got up after that hit, that's was phenomenal, but he made a big mistake letting it happen when he was so far ahead. For me Wilder isn't even top 5, and there are some newish fighters outside the top 10 that would probably give him a hiding too.
Parker and Whyte are far from mugs though, especially Whyte now, who is better that when he fought AJ, he's improved too. But yeah, the Fury height advantage would help against most of those apart from those with good chins who could get in close with Fury.
AJ doesn't have much of a height disadvantage against Fury so Fury will need to find a different way to beat him.
To me the fight rests on how much Fury gets in AJ's head, and he will get in his head, it's just a case of how much. If it's a lot then Fury wins, if he doesn't then I think AJ wins.
Should be cracking through, regardless, even more so for the rematch/ trilogy once they've fought each other once, it may be about who learns the most, the quickest. AJ might actually be in with a better shout if he does lose the first one.
