It'd be hard to fathom a pound-for-pound list without the longest-reigning heavyweight champion, but it's nearly the case when it comes to Fury, whose most recent appearance in a ring—a narrow defeat of Francis Ngannou last October—hasn't aged particularly well.
The good news? If Fury manages to get past Usyk and claim undisputed status in the glamour division, he'll likely be able to pull the trigger on the all-England showdown that would pit him against Anthony Joshua, whose two-round blowout of Ngannou last month made people forget his own struggles against Usyk across fights in 2021 and 2022.
