HAS FURY REPLACED AJ AS THE GOLDEN CHILD OF UK BOXING?

They would sell Wembley 3x over. 2 million UK PPVs

 

Truth is: no he will never be a golden boy of UK boxing, nor does he want to be. One thing is for sure, good and bad, what you see of Fury is authentic, not a carefully manufactured image.

To be the poster boy of the sport, you have to be airbrushed - personality photoshopping - and Fury is too comfortable in his (loose) skin to do what is required to be a human billboard for product promotion.

I don't care though, I like him and that's enough for me...

 

He’s infinitely more genuine, charismatic and decent than Joshua and if you’re someone who invests time to learn about the sport it’s very clear.

For the Matchroom FC types though, they’ll still think Joshua is the man because of the marketing budget behind him.

Joshua has loads of money invested in him and big corporations behind him and until that changes he’ll still benefit greatly from lots of positive PR.

It’s unfortunate because he’s not the great guy he’s made out to be and Fury is the far better man.

 

He'll never be the Golden Child until Joshua does something really stupid to tarnish his reputation.

Fury though is riding high and his stock has never been this high not even after the Wlad win. The Wlad win was boring and the shine was taken off that win by what he said afterwards. This time he was in an entertaining fight, he was robbed and his behaviour after the fight was exemplary.

Fury will now be seen as the anti-hero, bad boy who has been redeemed through his love of the sport. Casual fans will lap it up.

 

Wilder is quicker than Joshua and Fury's upper body movement was incredible, Wilder was telegraphing a lot of his stuff but it doesn't take away from how impressive Fury's defense was

 

Fury is the greatest god damn boxer alive and maybe in history

but politics stop him from getting that status.

 

Exactly, this is what a lot of people don’t get. Not everyone was a fan boy. I was a fan of Fury and massive support of this but he lost my interest with after the Wlad fight with some of the comments he came out with and instead of embrassing the support he had he was fixated on this narrative of there was a vendetta against him because he was gypsy etc. The powers were against him because he was too real etc etc.

 

No because the public/casuals don’t like him because

A) he’s a big mouth
B) he doesn’t knock people out
C) he talks too much
D) old Frank is his promoter
E) he’s a Pikey

 

I do think Matchroom fear the build up. I mean who knows what the **** he'd say. He could try to be really positive and still make Joshua look terrible.

"See the country is all about second chances. Look at us - an ex drug addict and an ex drug dealer fighting for the heavyweight championship of the world."

 

Fury will mess this up within a couple of months. He just hasn’t got the brain power to realise what he should keep to himself and what he should say to the media. He will say/do loads of stuff that turns people against him again and then no doubt complain that he’s being unfairly treated.

One great performance will not change his personality, saw the exact same thing with the Klitschko fight.

 

Ricky Hatton says hi

 

Keep hearing this bizarre arguement that because Joshua doesn’t hit as hard as Wilder he’ll have a hard time landing. What has power got to do with accuracy?

Wilder is one of the most innaccurate champions of all time, it’s so easy to get out of the way of his punches as he telegraphs them from the back of the arena, which means his speed means nothing either.

There is no way AJ does as bad as Wilder did against Fury. Joshua is better in every single department minus maybe power.

 

I must say I'd much rather watch Fury than Joshua. But I am no brit so theres that.

 

He won't catch up, let alone surpass Joshua because when AJ won a gold HW medal at a home Olympics he reached a far wider audience than anything Fury is ever likely to experience.
He combined that appeal with a big punching KO style that attracted a mass audience. The same people that find Furys style less appealing. His career has been expertly built by people who understand brand and marketing to a high level.

That Olympic rags to riches story and the big punching is the bedrock on which the AJ brand is built. Fury has a good story to tell and there is now the demand in the market for boxing that could allow him to flourish, but he won't catch or exceed AJ.

 

People do love a redemption story and Fury definitely fits that narrative. I think Fury would undoubtedly steal the show in the build up, that's a given. Fury will also no doubt have a lot of support if it happens next, Joshua/Fury I think will be the biggest fight in British boxing history, I hope it happens, April 2019, Joshua/Fury would be amazing.