Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua vs. Francis Zavier Ngannou & Zhilei Zhang vs. Joseph Parker RBR.

I know mate but I think there’s a fear element there too, I can’t imagine anyone saying no to that man.

 

Yeah bu, but Fury is mental and a recovering drug addiction and alcoholic. He's the greatest just for overcoming all that and able to step in the ring. Oh, and his baby had covid. LOL

 

Oh, I agree Arch - I thought GF won - that’s what I meant by (“at least, imo, he did”) - unless it came across ambiguously.

 

He is a cheat and that will never be forgotten so how anyone can lord him and his achievements is beyond me, he should not be allowed to call himself the lineal champion, when they do the ring announcement when they come in the ring they should have to say “the wbc heavyweight champion, the wba champion and the lineal champion he eats wild boar and once tested positive for nandroloneeeee both his a and his b sample the one the only Tyson Fury…and then they play a video of pumba from the lion king singing a kuna matata…

 

Yeah but Fury is bigger=GOAT.

 

Yes, he is

 

You beat me to it as I'm catching up ~9PM EST. To Olu, IF is a big word

 

Like Ali did Foreman

 

I thought Ngannou said that boxers were protected.

 

Yeah what did frank have to do with the main event there, he had no dog in the fight.
I would love to see the pair of them challenged to a sales pitch contest like in the wolf of Wall Street where he’s like right sell me this pen.
I think it would be genius.
Hearn has a talent for absolute hype mongering and then backtracking and going in a completely different direction.
He has been a huge influence on the popularity in resurgence of the sport though and that is hard to ignore.

 

Yet it was relatively recent that most "experts" here favored Wilder to KTFO AJ A few key fights later and AJ is numero uno - although some are still giving Usyk his props. Also, Fury is living - rent free or not - in many posters heads.

Lotsa short memories or extreme recentism on BF24

 

I just found this on twitter see if it works here Joshua is telling Ngannou don’t leave boxing and Ngannou looks like I don’t even know where Iam now lol, but the look on his face is like nothing I’ve seen before from a fighter and it could be so devastating that he can’t fight again
https://x.com/MatchroomBoxing/status/1766262715981463876?s=20

 

Lazy ass Zhang, scored two knockdowns and barely threw punches

I bet large on that fight not going the distance

And my follow up bet was the main event not going the distance in what would have been an ever larger bet had I won the first one

This is why I gave up betting

 

Fury has said legacy doesn’t concern him - but I think all the negative talk (most of it justified) regarding his comp. and infrequent fight schedule has him wanting to get in there to somehow regain some respect and status.

Otherwise, I can’t see why he would want to fight again - with a wife, a seemingly good marriage, many children and plenty of $$$ - and, he looks relatively happy and healthy.

Even the “fightin’ man” claims don’t ring true and are totally at odds with reality. His image has suffered badly, and he wants to try and repair that via the paths of least resistance.

If he could’ve dodged Usyk again (it was postponed at the least) he would’ve.

I think he now views the one fight (likely multiple fights, with the contractual two way rematch clause) vs Usyk as his potential linchpin for redemption, perhaps without any legitimate view to fighting anyone else thereafter.

It would certainly be a credit to him if he beat Usyk but there’s several other fighters he should’ve and should be facing.

Boxing matches aren’t won on paper nor by the “logic” of: A beat B who beat C, therefore A beats C - that “logic” has been disproven many times exactly due to the fact that styles makes fights. So, get in there and have those fights to prove your actual superiority.

Now, both Parker and AJ are representing REAL fighters - fighters who properly engage their comp., fighters who, in doing so, can lose fights but still come back, physically and mentally - improving themselves from the lessons learnt.

That gives rise to even greater quality in performances and compelling back stories - neither of which are seen so much, if at all, in fighters who fiercely protect their ZEROs - in terms of both their records and how many zeros they command in their pay cheques.