Eddie Hearn and Joshua have form for this, they messed around with the Wilder negotiations. Fury and Frank negotiated the fight with Shelly FInkel in a few minutes.
Everything positive is coming from Matchroom. It’s Arum and Fury shouting it down, now Fury is talking about a Wilder trilogy. Is Fury slightly worried that coming in with no warm up fight AJ is a dangerous opponent? Everyone will blame Hearn and Matchroom but I can see it coming a mile off, fight delayed until October ish and Fury tunes up in the mean time.
Fury never wanted it with the bodybuilder. Signed with uncle Frank when he could have signed with Hearn. This has Price vs Fury vibes to me. He's spooked with Joshua about something...
And Price beat him in the amateurs. He could have made alot of money fighting Joshua in the UK just after the Povetkin fight.
Fury looked as though he wouldn’t have laughed if he seen a cat riding a bike during that interview, seems completely bored and fed up, think Arum might be ****ing him around in some way or another
I think it feeds into what he's said before about his mental state. He likes having a goal to work towards otherwise he feels directionless. Waiting around for a fight date to eventually get messed around is something he's had bad experiences with in the past (Haye). I agree the interview was a bit weird, I suspect it's partly what I'm saying above and partly him 'playing the villain'. I predict once a fight date is announced he'll seem very different. I really hope so. I just want the fight to happen with both of them at 100%. No questions left after the fight (or fights). No excuses or mitigating circumstances - just both guys at the top of their game so we can finally see who the top HW is.
I always raise an eyebrow when someone posts on here says they have inside knowledge but you’ve been right a few times now so I’ll trust you on this one.
This is what will happen: - Fury will take a warmup fight against someone like Takam or Wilder trilogy if that's the outcome of the legal situation - Joshua fights Usyk Hearn and Arum will say both will get through their respective fights and fight by the end of the year. However, I wouldn't be surprised if Usyk beats Joshua and ****s everything up.
Completely agree, this is how it came across to me. He says that boxing and fitness is his "medicine" so with all this ****ing about for the AJ fight and him now being inactive for quite some time, it's no doubt doing his head in.
Is it likely that he will be at his best being 18 months out of the ring? That is the same level of inactivity that Klitschko harboured following his loss to Joshua. I would like to see Fury have a decent bout prior to facing Joshua, but it doesn't seem like it will happen. That is far from optimal preparation for Fury. I also don't think that this bout will show who the best in the division is. We always hear that "styles make fights", but it seems to be used selectively. Just because Wilder lost to Fury does not mean he would lose to Joshua. From this perspective, Andy Ruiz will feel he is part of this dicussion, too. But it's Usyk that seems to be overlooked, and I don't think that's unintentional. As much as people are desperate to find an answer, the best of this era can only be established in time and only if the best fight the best. If Fury beats Joshua, he is the man who is the frontrunner by some distance, but Joshua lost to Ruiz and beating Fury would not expunge that fact.