Tyson Fury is a proven world champion, but if he wants his record to stack up alongside the greats he has to make the big fights happen.
Muhammad Ali’s record includes wins over a raft of legendary opponents including Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, Ernie Terrell, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Ken Norton, Ron Lyle and Earnie Shavers.
Fury has fought only two opponents of real significance, Wladimir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder. The Wilder trilogy was fantastic but not enough to secure a legacy that ranks alongside that other British great Lennox Lewis, for example. Take Wilder out of it and Fury’s record since deposing Klitschko seven years ago does not bear scrutiny.
