Was obvious after 1 week of ticket sales yet we were ridiculed by the few Boxnation diehards for suggesting that an excuse would be made to postpone the fight and move it to a smaller venue in London.
What has a smaller venue got do with it? They will now have less tickets available to sell, but the purses will stay the same.
Because it would look embarrassing that a 'stadium fight' is done in front of 70% empty seats? And if the purses for the main event are the same then the undercard will be smaller, esp if they drop the ticket prices
People in the know say that this was Don Charles' brainchild and that he took it to Boente and Booth, who signed off and came up with a massive amount of £££££, and $$$$$. :hey
You will only believe that if you believe in soap operas as well. Tyson Fury got offered a fight with Ustinov and he bottled it. Even if Ustinov did have a training camp for Fury that's what is meant to happen anyway. Fury had more than enough time to prepare himself and he should of got in the ring and fought him. Fury's a salesmen, but he's proved to be a very bad one at that.
So they filmed all those build-up shows, had the Bunce chat events, went through the press conferences etc, just to pretend?! Come on, they could have come up with the Chisora injury five weeks before, cancelled the card and saved all that money.
They thought that the public are thick and would fork out world class prices for a domestic repeat when the World Cup finished.