Fury comes out of retirement and announces new trainer for Chisora fight

Difference is fury still has a belt. No way on Earth Chisora deserves a title shot. He isn't even ranked high enough by any of the organizations to qualify as a voluntary. Fury is floating this bs to see if it will sell.

 

Duly acknowledged. It's why I stated that I'd be moved to express some displeasure if Chisora really turned out to be his next bout, just as I would in some hypothetical scenario in which Anthony Joshua were still a reigning titlist and elected to rematch Charles Martin while his chief rivals were facing each other.

Fury is astute enough to know that Chisora III is a dud without needing to test the waters, and that's exactly why he's putting it out there. He's an expert provocateur who knows that there are still many who are credulous/slow/wilful (delete as applicable) enough to bite on just about any bait. I mean, his retirement (which was a necessity to swerve Usyk, according to his detractors) lasted all of four months and he just announced that Isaac Lowe will be his trainer going forward.

 

Odds are it will sell in the UK. Take some bribery to make it a title bout though.

 

Dude sounds familiar. Reminds me of the Gypsie boxer from France I think it was. Beat Wlad Kiltschko then faked metal issues so he could duck the rematch, fought nobodies until beating the limited Wilder 3 times, then he and his fans claimed he was the greatest fighter ever. Can't be the same guy. Shoot, I can't remember. Guy really didn't accomplished anything as a pro. Very easy to forget.

 

It'd do some kind of business purely on account of the names, sure, but he knows well enough how little chance he has of equalling his last buyrate with a dance partner he's already defeated twice and handily (the third Wilder bout was contracted and at least bore the frisson of Deontay's puncher's chance, which proved very much extant). No amount of table-tossing and other WWEesque theatrics could make Fury-Chisora III a truly hotly anticipated event.

Fury is much shrewder than given credit for, despite years of precedent where it concerns his capacity for planting and then confounding expectations. Perhaps it's the 'crazy gypo' perception people can't get past.

 

Takes a journeyman to beat a journeyman!

 

Even in dropping a couple, Frazier/Norton definitely more of an accomplishment than Wilder/Chisora.

 

Since when do yo have trilogies when one guy never wins? I got it with Wilder, but why make a career out of it?

When are we going to see the Hammer and Schwartz trilogies?

 

It's hard, because fighting Chisora is a stupid move but removing Sugar Hill is a smart one.

Maybe Fury actually realised that Hill's ''Kronk'' strategy almost got him KO'd and that he's lost his speed and defence. Or maybe it's just practical difficulties or Hill wanting too much for the upcoming unification. Or maybe Hill will be back.

But I think ''Go forward, righthand, be the big dog'' is not going to cut it against Usyk, or even AJ. In fact, I think it could get Fury KO'd.

I think Fury has gone between extremes, with Uncle Meth making him too defensive and Hill too aggressive. He just needs to do what he did with Meth but add a bit more offensive power. It plays to his strengths to be mobile and defensively sound. He was never a KO artist. You can see that even with Wilder I he was landing good shots, hurting Wilder, even while being very defensive. He didn't need to move the needle much from that. There was no need to overcompensate and start being a pressure fighter.

 

It’s so funny when people call Tyson Fury “shrewd” and ahead of the game, when really he’s just lying to your faces and you’re starved of decent boxing so you lap it up.

 

Went to Klitschko's back yard, ended his lengthy reign.

Went to Wilder's back yard, created one of the most indelibly dramatic moments in heavyweight history, then walked him down and smashed him up, claimed the only belt missing from his collection, while Joshua and co. watched like dopes.

Will return to defend his kingship from Usyk's challenge, assuming the latter does as expected in ten days or so.

Anyone who's held a heavyweight strap in the time since Fury beat Klitschko has only been holding his cast-offs, trinkets that were never lost in the ring and which relinquished their meaning as soon as they were stripped from him.

If that's lying, please, Tyson Luke Fury, keep deceiving me.


Speaking of 'lapping it up', when it comes to bait like this Chisora stuff doing the rounds, you're either hip to the game or you're just another sap on the hook.

 

Never questioned Fury’s ability or his accomplishments, but he is a serial liar and never seems to be held to account for it.

 

You're trying too hard.

 

The pages of this forum are littered with threads of critical commentary on his utterances. How else should he be held to account for what boils down to a track record of yanking peoples' chains via social and legacy media in-between significant achievements?

Thanks for the vacantly presuming and ultimately futile assessment. I'll continue undeterred.

 

My perception is that it's a very typical of Fury warm up/tune up fight prior to a scheduled match with the winner of Joshua - Usyk 2

Not against it; I wouldn't be chuffed to see him going into a Usyk or Joshua fight after coming off the sofa following a 2nd gear performance against Whyte; ideally Usyk/Josh v Fury with both being in peak condition is what we as fans want and deserve