There'll be enormous public pressure to make Joshua vs Fury and they'd have to do it. It makes too much money also. It's just a shame the promotions were clearly trying to screw each other other at the expense of the fans.
Agreed. About time though. He's had most of his career carefully managed to weight as many factors as humanly possible in his favour. If there's a rematch clause, I hope it takes place on Usyk's turf. Usyk has had to travel in almost all of his big fights and deserves a big fight in Ukraine. Equally Joshua has NEVER been a true away fighter and needs to prove he can be imo.
Agree with all points, only thing I’d say is Joshua has been the big draw for the majority of his career since becoming a champion, but he certainly needs to travel some more. Genuinely a fight I’m looking forward to, got to root for the home team (AJ), but love Usyk.
Yeah, commercially of course it makes sense for them to focus mainly on the UK stadium market. I think he still needs to prove himself as an away fighter though. That's something Fury has over him. Yes I am looking forward to it also. Usyk is one of my favourite fighters so favouring him.. but I also really want to see Joshua vs Fury so i'm conflicted!
Well, if before covid, outside of U.K and US too might had been not bad income from live gates. For example Japan, Germany etc. Japan is with very dense population and notable events does have high prices for tickets. I think one from reasons why Valuev had fought in South Korea and Japan.
Not really, perhaps you don't appreciate what a big star Joshua is in the UK. They can sell 7 figure PPVs and 90k seats at Wembley basically regardless who he fights. There's very little need for him to fight anywhere other than the UK, the US or Saudi.
Ohh, he is nice looking, handsome and watchable athlete. Ofc UK market is big market for live gates. Japan might be not worse than U.K for live gates with proper PR campaign, it is like Switzerland but more dense than U.K and tickets pricing with excellent campaign might be good. Large athletes: there is reason why sumo does have high attention in Japan. Japan even does not have high number of Olympic Gold medalists in boxing, therefore Murata is something special for Japan. Not alone if athlete is very large HW athlete.
