Tyson Fury left red-faced over his heavyweight rankings and fight he really wanted to see
Tyson Fury’s heavyweight rankings look way off the mark in 2023 following a year that saw his No2 and No3 boxers in the glamour division, Joe Joyce and Deontay Wilder, lose convincingly.
In September of last year, Fury rated both fighters just behind him in the world with no place for Oleksandr Usyk or Anthony Joshua inside his top three. At the time, Joyce had just beaten Joseph Parker while Wilder was deep in preparation for his comeback fight against Robert Helenius.
Fast forward 15 months and the hard-hitting duo are barely clinging onto a top 10 spot in the world. Joyce suffered back-to-back stoppage losses to Zhang Zhilei this year while Wilder was utterly dominated by Parker on the ‘Day of Reckoning’ bill in Saudi Arabia last weekend.
“I’ve had a lovely day of watching boxing,” Fury told fans in an Instagram video earlier in the year. “Watching all of the big fights and studying all of the heavyweights. I’ve got to say that big Joe Joyce is the second-best heavyweight in the world, behind myself.
