And this is the dilemma for proper boxing fans. Money finally makes fights that probably wouldn't have happened, but only on the money's terms....
I see snooker has gone now too, frigging “golden ball” 167 break nonsense. Leave it alone!
And again I wouldn't mind so much if it was just the odd thing, and if it moved around a bit. Look at the 70s where Ali could pretty much choose...
I had been hoping it was maybe like the 1970s with the US trying to buy its way to a football league, but the deeper pockets make it a bit more...
I'd have paid PPV to see Fury's reaction...
Starting with a Fury interview where big Tyson didn't look like he wanted to be there. One of his regular "don't really care, doesn't really...
Shame he came up against veteran PEDster Povetkin.
Happy to confirm I am cleared to fight also.
If you buy on the app, you have to watch on the app. It's a separate account from the main Sky box. I got caught with that once for another fight....
Benn.
It's a big if though. A fit version of Fury would have time to smoke a cigar before avoiding the punch that knocked him over. Hard to see AJ...
This is the thing bothering me about the Taylor-Catterall rematch. He's done a great job, along with the Top Rank PR people, whipping up a fight...
I see Hearn is now telling the youtube parrots it was "8 figures" without an amount involved...
It was always likely to be this. You could see the verbal offer being something like "$10m plus upside to a maximum of $25m".
In fairness he couldn't have predicted how badly the run-up would go and it wouldn't be undisputed if he'd postponed it, no doubt he'd have been...