When Joshua was in talks to face McKean everybody trashed the fight. Now Fury fanboys will try to spin it around and say how great Fury is for taking such a young hungry lion.
Fury is on the backburner wrapped in cotton wool about to fight Usyk in December. This is merely an exhibition stay busy bout...his promoters don't want him to fight at all. AJ got chinned and slapped about his stock in the negative needing a comeback fight Different scenarios mate. They managed to scrape Franklin from the empty American Barrel and AJ still managed to look poor, as he always does.
Did anyone expect anything better than that? He was always going to fight a random opponent otherwise the Usyk fight would have been made ages ago
Don't forget that you are talking to a strictly objective boxing analyst though who admittedly doesn't support Fury - just happens to always end up as a yes man to the most extreme Fury fanatics on the site. But it's all just a coincidence.
Just walked through the park and there was a pigeon pecking away at a Furocity ice pop, it looked like it was deepthroating it.
There is nothing wrong with an exho. This, however, will be an official title bout. After the joke of a sparring session that was his las "title defence" against Chisora in December, Fury yet again "defends" his title against a guy whose not even in the top 50. No doubt it will be sold for the very reasonable and justifiable £69.99 on PPV. I think you and Ducky should help your ogre idol out in these hard times and buy at least 10 PPVs each.
Man I don't even care at this point, just so long as he fights. Same with Usyk and all the rest. If this Saudi deal ends up falling through, the year will end up being almost entirely a waste. Barely any of the best guys have fought, and if they have it's been against opposition well below their level. It's to a point where I'm happy Joyce activated his rematch clause with Zhang, cause while I hate rematches, at least it's a quality fight we know is happening.
McKean absolutely does not deserve a chance, he should have fought Hrgovic and thus tried to earn a chance for a title shot. I wouldn't be surprised if Fury tries to convince boxing fans that McKean is a tall and dangerous fighter and just as dangerous as Usyk...