Fury vs. Usyk is OFF, says Usyk's manager

Yeah, the last line is the only line that matters really. Nobody knows the answer (everyone is behaving like they do though). In the end, people have decided to believe what promoters/instragram posts have indicated is true, no rematch, fight is made.

But people will mostly just say "well if it wasn't the rematch it would have been something else", which may be true.

 

Belly's reputation is in tatters and his credibility is shot to bits. You only have to take a gander at social media and read the YT comments to see it how badly he's getting roasted and how he's hemorrhaging fans by the thousands every day if not hour or minute.

He's already lost god knows how many in his own country, let alone the rest of the world. Those still inexplicably defending him are in a tiny minority and the vast majority of them are casuals - football yobbo types and trolls. The remainder are his utterly obsessed weirdo super fans who are clearly suffering from some kind of acute mental illness and deep down, as painful as it is for them to admit to themselves and their psychiatrists, they know he's a ducking coward fraud, that he never wanted this fight, and that his reputation is in complete tatters.

Frank Warren

“The terms of the deal are really simple, it will be a 50/50 split, but it's where we can generate the most income to make it work. It's an easier fight to make instead of Joshua because there are no rival promoters involved. Usyk's people are free agents and that's not a problem.”

Aside from this being very bigoted, it's also very strange behaviour from a professional fighter. Openly admitting years in advance you have zero interest in facing someone before they've even won a world title in your division and that you still categorically don't want anything to do with them if even if they win all three belts off the second biggest star in world boxing and by far the biggest in your country.

Funny because he didn't have a problem facing foreigners Tom Schwarz, Wallin, Pianeta, Sefari, Wlad, and Hammer in his previous seven fights prior to making that statement. He fought Schwarz and Wallin in the US for goodness sake and no one had a clue who either were over there or anywhere else

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Imagine holding one belt to your far more decorated and accomplished opponent's three

Weighing 50-60lbs more than them, having 7'' reach and 6'' height advantages over them

Having home advantage where you will be afforded free licence to cheat as much as you want

Where there's a good chance the judges will score the fight in your favour even if you get your ass whooped, and definitely will even if it's remotely close

Where there's a good chance the ref will wave it off with a premature stoppage in your favour

Where if you're badly hurt and on the verge of stoppage the round will end mysteriously early ala Dubois vs Lerana on a Big Frank card just four months or so ago

And the chance of any of the above happening to you is virtually zero

And having a completely unfair and highly disrespectful and insulting 70-0 split in your favour

But you still can't get the fight made?! WTF?!

The deck literally couldn't be stacked anymore in his favour and Usyk bent the knee and went far and above what any other champ, let alone a three-belt unified one, former undisputed at the weight below, current P4P#1 would of to try and make it happen.

Usyk literally bent over backwards to make the fight happen, Belly bent over backwards to ensure it never did, being incredibly greedy, unreasonable, disrespectful and just a repugnant POS from the outset.

He wanted Usyk to bow to his every demand and make all the concessions while he made none himself. If he genuinely wanted the fight it would've been made ages ago.

People actually expect Usyk to have zero self-respect and to bend over and let Belly violate him and treat him with the utmost disrespect every step of the way when he has more than paid his dues, has done everything he possibly could to raise his profile over here, in addition to him already having won his Olympic gold and beating Joyce in the WSB, four of his last five fights were on PPV over here all of which against British fighters, three on British soil, and he's coming off the back of a brace of huge wins over Great Britain's most popular fighter and who was the sport's second biggest star behind Clenelo.

Again, Usyk has more than paid his dues


Olympic gold
World Amateur gold
European gold
Undisputed CW champion
Three-belt unified HW champion
P4P#1
Ring Magazine champion at CW and HW
Ring Magazine Fighter of the Year (2018)
ESPN Fighter of the Year (2018)
Sports Illustrated Fighter of the Year (2018)
CBS Fighter of the Year (2018)
Boxing Writers Association of America Fighter of the Year (2018)
Boxing News Fighter of the Year (2018)
Four of his last five fights on PPV in GB

 

Belly's cowardice and greed scuppered the AJ fight too

Hmm..

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As I understand it, Fury has been in camp since December, he hasn't really broken. But that's through Bunce/Boxing News and that probably gets cast out as MSM these days

Seriously though, what's your thinking for him having never been in camp?

 

Frank Warren has said not only that he doesn't expect the fight to happen but that he "can't see how" it will ever happen.

There's brinksmanship, but that is outright wild behaviour if they are going to have a fight in a couple of weeks