I'm beginning to think that Fury was serious when he said he intended to retire but then saw a more lucrative alternative: He would hold onto the title for as long as he could and make as much money as he could from it without having any intention of fighting another legitimate opponent. Fury would give the impression that he wanted to fight Usyk or Joshua but by making unreasonable demands, he could dodge the fight and try to make it look like they were running scared. I think he is going to drag this out for as long as he can. This might end with him being stripped of the title with John Fury sounding off, calling the WBC 'political *******s'
No he will retire when the Saudi's give him $1 billion dollars to knock out a midget named OLEKSANDR.
He's getting loads of unjustified hate and criticism. Let's look at the facts: 1) Joshua and Hearn wasted his time when Tyson Fury and Frank Warren tried to make that fight last year so Chisora was the contingency. 2) Usyk shouldn't come out of the Fury fight negotiations smelling of Roses. He didn't really accept 30% because he demanded a rematch clause and wouldn't budge on that. Now instead of getting $20 million to be beaten by Fury he's getting $6million to imo probably get beaten by Dubois. 3) Hearn was trying to make Joshua vs Ngannou, Wilder tried to make an Ngannou fight so don't make out Tyson Fury is the only sell out. I personally believe Fury when he said Ruiz was asking for too much money because Wilder has just turned around and said exactlythe same thing. Now Hearn has the cheek to criticise the Fury fight. Should Fury be stripped? Yes he probably should if the sport had integrity but blame Mauricio Sulliman for not doing that. My mate lost his eye in sparring last week, that's it gone. I've seen a few fighters end punchy that I know, the public doesn't see the full extent of this so I can't blame any fighter wanting to get as much money as possible while they can. Even though I've never been a Joshua fan I wouldn't have criticised him for taking this fight. My only gripe is that Fury is the current champion but fighters like Ruiz should have stepped up. This will be a huge paper view make millions and SHOULD be a relatively easy win for Fury but we just don't know and that's why we're all going to tune in.
1) Didn't Fury give AJ a ridiculously short amount of time to commit to the fight? 2) Usyk did accept 30% even though he was entitled to far more. Wanting a rematch clause is reasonable. Demanding 70% when your opponent holds more belts is not reasonable. 3) I don't believe anything that Fury says. He has either lied or contradicted himself far too many times.
Fury does not need the WBC title to milk money from exhibition matches,Fury had no belt when he fought Strowman iirc yet still received a purse of 15 million back in 2019. Basically over double the purse what Usyk is getting for fighting Dubois in August this year .
I think fighters should definitely get as much money as possible but not by lying all the time, taking on opponents like Ngannou and then trying to pass it off as a game changer.
He is a known troll, don't mind him. He is just repeating the same b.c. which was debunked million time. He is crying for a rematch clause, that Fury own promoter admitted that it comes from them. Same Frank Warren who said Usyk is going to be an easy fight to make, and will be 50-50 split. Hell Fury own trainer exposed him by saying he was never training him for the Undisputed, and when asked what Undisputed ??? As far as AJ goes, didn't you spot the narrative by now ? Fury is always using AJ name, when he is about to announce a terrible fight, so he is trying to get a pass on the back of AJ.
And Usyk purse against AJ 2 was 75$m. Cool then, tell your bud to drop the title, and goes into the wrestling world, as he is not far from it. Aka the clown show.
Without a doubt Fury would for a boxing match but irrelevant in an exhibition match like the Strowman match has shown. The sad thing is Fury three year ago got more than double what Usyk is getting for defending his belts against Dubois in a few months time.
It's the people taking part that attracts people to an exhibition match. A world champion is a bigger draw than someone who isn't.
Ridiculously short amount of time no he didn't he offered him 60/40 which nobody would argue with and waited a while to try and make it. The fact is Joshua and Hearn never intended on taking it but wasted months of everybody's time making out they did.
He gave Joshua 10 days to sign the contract. I would call that a ridiculously and needlessly short amount of time.