Hughie Fury Vs Chris Norrad

Awful , awful opponent.

Talking of Hughie, he's been turning into Frank Warren for a couple of years now. Used to seem like a really sound fella when interviewed but now often gets hot under the collar from the most minor of pressing questions.

 

Could you give us an example?

 

I can't be bothered going through his interviews but it's been a recurring theme for a while now.

It's blatantly obvious in his body language. He could be asked a simple question like "will you be watching the Joyce Stiverne fight next week", and because he has a history of ducking Joyce, he would immediately get on the defensive and say his famous "listen" in a strong tone and then give some nondescript answer about only focusing on himself bla bla bla, leaving behind the cue for the interviewer to swiftly move on. It's subtle things like that.

 

One of the weirdest careers I can remember. There's absolutely no sense of cohesion from one fight to the next in terms of matchmaking. Chuck that together with his light hitting evasive style and it's just impossible to get much of a fan base. It's great news his cousin is called "tyson" else I think he'd be more anonymous that Dubois, Gorman, Price et al.

 

I think he's been mismanaged these last few fights.
The step down to face Sam Sexton for the British title made some sense, and they should have kept him there defending that title instead of insisting he's world class and throwing him in with Pulev.
They should have taken the Joyce fight, and when Joyce was about 5-0.
Instead of trying to squeeze him into a mandatory world title shot so they could throw him in with AJ or Wilder, and having him beaten by Pulev.

Then, instead of dropping down to a decent British or European title level opponent, they pick a tomato can no one has heard of.

I'm no fan of the SKY/Hearn nexus and I like having boxing on Channel Five but Hughie would actually be much better off with Matchroom's roster right now. Get him in with Price or Allen, then maybe Chisora. Recognizable names, possible decent paydays, and very winnable fights.

 

I think he's either had 15 minutes media training, or several hours of media training but he's not the sharpest tool in the box. That strategy is a classic defensive shot to make sure that the quotes for the article tell the story that you want them to say, 'Hughie Fury is focussed and ready to fight anyone' rather than the one the journalist hopes to write 'Hughie Fury says Joe Joyce is a useless sack of ****' . Everyone does it, but the trick is to do it in a more entertaining way. Hughie can't do that and likely never will.

I think that could've been the plan, but then the Pulev opportunity came up and whilst Whyte or Miller didn't fancy Sofia, for a team with small finances to be within one fight of an AJ mandatory was probably too good a chance to turn down.

I didn't get the logic in vacating the British title, with Dubois, Gorman, Allen et al there would've been a chance to turn that into an opportunity. Whether they didn't fancy one of those or the injury wouldn't allow them to take a more threatening opponent on is the question.

Watching that **** show last night it makes me wonder if they just wanted Hughie to get some exposure whilst they continue to heal up / train some of the flaws out of his game. That was a marking time fight if ever there was one and they've surely lost some momentum now.

 

A press conference for either Parker or Pulev (pretty sure it was Parker) was embarrassing. Hughie was going on about Joshua being a fraud and Hearn being a cockroach but it sounded so forced and fake. It actually seemed pretty sad in a way; Hughie comes across as a nice enough guy and there he was with his big fat promoter pushing a fight nobody wanted to see on YouTube with a handful of people present. So smalltime.

It seems so obvious that he should be in the Joyce/Dubois/Allen/Gorman/Price conversation. But as has been said, it's such a weird career.

 

yep, this.

 

Some of the boxers were probably better than Fury's opponent too. How the **** was that fat pudding 17-0? He looked like he didn't even know how to parry a jab.

 

and they wonder why Boxing is Dead... they keep feeding us LIES, even at Top Level.

then the commentators have to talk mince and play it up like it was something, and then of course you'll get fans & supporters talking these fighters up like their great or equal to greats or in so many cases better than greats. Wow is it ever going to stop.

Hugh is a 3rd rate fighter period and most of the men at the top are themselves only 2cd rate fighters.

Give us Honest Boxing again and SAVE it.

Honest Fights
Honest Commentary - call it what it is.
Honest Ratings

and most of all - Honest Contests and Eliminations Series, where REAL Contenders meet and either progress or get beat out.

then the Same at World Level Contenders to Fight each other for proper rankings & placements and then World Title contests.

it's not _ucken hard!

 

This was the worst card I have ever seen.

 

There was nothing wrong with the Parker/Hughie fight. It was a competitive, 50/50 match up.

 

Strange comment which had nothing to do with anything I said. Have you quoted the wrong post?

 

You said it was a fight no one wanted to see dumbass.

It was a good, competitive fight.

 

It was a good competitive fight which nobody wanted to see, hence why it was stuck on YouTube and the venue had about five people in it.