BREAKING NEWS: AJ HAS AGREED TO ALL TERMS AND WILL FIGHT FURY ON DECEMBER 3RD!!!

Prime Gary Cornish

 

Fury needs to be double careful in with a finisher like Joshua,especially if Phil Edwards is the referee. This stoppage is brutal compared to Chisora’s stoppage of Takam.

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Don't be to sure , word has it Eubanks Snr is advising Fury...

 

He's not going to lose. Rematch clause is standard A-side voluntary defense fare. If it was a two-way rematch clause, then I'd have questions.

If Usyk had agreed to box Fury this December, it would be far from an unprecedented turnaround. But nobody can reasonably hold it against him if he wants to give his body some therapeutic time off and relax with his family before boxing again.

Likewise, it can't reasonably be held against Fury if he doesn't want to be out of the ring a full year before going into that fight (I credit you with more sense than to have taken his retirement seriously). Worst case scenario, it pushes Fury-Usyk back a short way to the summer. Unless he loses. And he surely does not intend to lose to Oluwafemi.


As for the notion that Fury ducked Usyk at the start of the year;

If the reports you're citing are to be believed, Fury was willing to let £15,000,000 leave the pot in order to box Usyk (in addition to Whyte's considerable step-aside fee). Oluwafemi explicitly denied that he had accepted that offer, Hearn stated talks were ongoing and that Oluwafemi was unlikely to step aside and would require other guarantees in addition to whatever he agreed to be paid if he was to waive his right to an immediate rematch. Warren emerged a few days later and stated that Oluwafemi had required money considerably in excess of the £15,000,000 they'd apparently offered to stump up (£20,000,000, if you include paying off Whyte). Exactly how much should Oluwafemi be paid for sitting on his behind?


Fury-Usyk is going to happen in 2023.

 

I think he prefers Paris to you.

 

Why? This is a huge money fight for AJ after coming off 2 losses. On Fury's side, this is a fairly easy fight, so I don't see why this won't happen.

 

Great that this fight really seems to be happening. Gutsy move from Fury. Hell of an ask of Joshua to win twice, but I hope he does. Even one win with a loss in the rematch would set him up well for a third fight if Fury beats Usyk.

 

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I'll believe it's "on" when they both step into the ring and not a moment before!

 

Why box some middling schnook when you can make the lion's share of a big pot for boxing Oluwafemi and finally add that name to your ledger before it's devalued any further? At the moment Joshua's only unavenged defeats are to Usyk. A victory over him retains a solid degree of creditability for now.

Oluwafemi isn't as dangerous as guys make him out to be, man. This is the dude who needed a British stoppage to get rid of Carlos Takam. If this bout gets made, Fury whoops his butt good and proper.

Joshua promptly issued his statement later the same day rumors emerged that he'd accepted £15,000,000. He didn't say that he absolutely wouldn't step aside. He said that, contrary to rumor, he hadn't accepted any offer of £15,000,000. Warren later stated that Oluwafemi had wanted considerably in excess of that sum.

Walked away from what exactly? An Usyk fight at any price? Oluwafemi wanted in excess of £15,000,000 to sit on his butt.

The situation cannot reasonably be spun as a duck. Oluwafemi held a contractual obligation over Usyk and was asking for in excess of £15,000,000 (and further guarantees) to 'allow it, bruv'.

But, if we must say that Fury ducked Usyk in January, let's at least be equally unreasonable where it applies to Usyk and state that he has ducked a date with Fury in December. Looks like it's 1–1, a duck apiece.


Silliness and nonsense aside, Fury and Usyk will meet in 2023 regardless.