Fury v Wilder is officially off

What do I care if boxing is doing well financially? Seriously? How does that affect my enjoyment of the sport, on the user end, in a practical way? It doesn't. My favorite matches in the last couple of decades have been the Izzy vs. Rafa trilogy (on Showtime, when it still trailed a very distant second behind HBO, and didn't have a big promotional budget; in fact their rivalry was the rarity in those days in that it actually got a half-hour documentary-style preview, although it didn't have anywhere near the production values of a 24/7), or Chris John vs. Daud Yordan for instance (which didn't even air on TV in the US or anywhere in the West, and required logging onto a choppy Indonesian legal stream in the wee hours, which only a marginal percentage of fans did, but those who did will never forget that day/card) - really, my enjoyment has been unaffected by the feast or famine ebb & flow of what the sport's top earners and promoters are making. It doesn't affect me; I don't care. So a couple of guys are signing record-breaking deals with networks and OTT apps for millions of dollars? Great. Doesn't affect me; I don't care. So there's a bunch of poorly cobbled together PBC shows (with a few diamonds in the rough) all year on network TV and basic cable? Great. Doesn't affect me; I don't care. You could strip all of that away, my enjoyment of the sport wouldn't suffer in the least. I'd still experience all my favorite moments in the sport, which come at like 6am while streaming cards from Japan or the Philippines, or mid-afternoon watching a bloody Euro title battle, or well past midnight watching a slobberknocker on the Argentine domestic scene.

Also that's a massive exaggeration to say the heavyweight division is now "thriving" just because its least sucky trio happen to have taken some baby steps towards all fighting each other to establish supremacy and lineage. Wilder vs. Fury wasn't some great fight. It had one moment of late drama, big whoop. Going in we knew that somebody with movement who could avoid the right hands could outbox Wilder, because he's a caveman. We also knew that anyone that lands clean on the button on Fury (even a mediocre-punchig light heavyweight) can potentially drop him. Both of those facts bore out in the fight. We didn't learn anything we didn't already know. It wasn't that exciting. They're both still extremely flawed heavyweight champions, and neither ranks with the best of all time. Calm the hell down.

 

Wilder sent Fury an offer which was rejected and Fury sent Wilder an offer which was rejected. Fights off. Move on. Like Wilder said Joshua needed to realise he isnt the boss in this division so Wilder took control of his own career. Which to date has been a loss to Tyson Fury and next up is a NON PPV event against Dom Breazeale. Good stuff.

 

Rematch will not happen at all now. One of them will fight Joshua, and they will lose. I think it will be Wilder fighting Joshua first, but guess we will see.

 

No Fury, you didn't beat Wilder, it was a draw, and your resume is garbage lol
A win over a shot 40 year old, and Chisora.
It starts to look like Fury was shook after Wilder got him in the last round. Even if Fury deserved a win, Wilder send him running.
Fury felt that power.

 

Maybe we'll be spared the 'Two fighting men, deal was done in seconds, there's no problem with making a deal when there's two honest fighting men involved' **** now that they've shown that once theres more money and other interests involved making a fight isn't as straightforward as they made out...

 

Fury is basically saying from now on, I'm not chasing the smoke, I am the smoke! Come to me if u want it! They praise Wilder & Joshua for acting like this! Tyson chased it & became it! Fury's a boss... Slaying the LDBC

 

Deontay Wilder, Anthony Joshua ushering in a golden era of heavyweights

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I think Whyte beats Fury and Povetkin beats Wilder.

I reckon we will probanly see

Wilder vs Kownacki
Fury vs Jennings or Rivas

 

At this point Wilder easily KOes 39 year old Povetkin.

 

If cunningham, Pjakic and McDermott can catch Fury I wouldnt rule out Whyte.