I'm a huge fury fan but...

I fully expect this and your'e right about Arum, however Fury is no mug and only has a 5 fight deal.

 

I never said Fury is a mug, he is a fighter but he will take the path of least resistance .

 

Resistance? He will look to maximise revenue out of the remaining years of his career. Fury has proven he is willing to take risks he earned his respect the hard way.

 

Martin's alright. He got stagefright against AJ but I had him winning the Kownacki fight and he definitely would have won had the fight gone 12. he's a solid top 15-20 opponent.

 

Correcting

 

*Corrected. Apologies pow.

Fury is British

 

The whole building Fury seems backwards to me. I don't think you build fighters by putting them in uncompetitive fights.

 

Bob's planning to put Tyson into the US TV circuit, peddling his rise from the depths of despair and being massively overweight, to trying to become the heavyweight champ again. Plenty will lap it up.

 

He is naturally left handed, he has boxed southpaw for large parts of fights. I thought he would box southpaw more against Wilder but Ben Davison was saying (on a podcast) something about an injury preventing him doing it more. Not sure how true that is but I would not describe Fury fighting his natural southpaw stance as clumsy.

 

Charles Martin is a crap opponent.
As I said before, I'm willing to give Fury a pass for some bum fights until about mid-2020 because when he came back in June 2018 against Sefer Seferi the consensus was that he was about 2 years away from ever being a top fighter IF indeed that was even possible.
He went out and jumped in with Wilder within 6 months of coming back. .... and did pretty well.

I have little interest in seeing Fury-Martin or Fury-Miller or Fury-Bryan .... all bad fights. But I'll regard Fury as a top fighter fighting these bums for another 8 or 9 months or so.

Hopefully he'll be in with Wilder or Ruiz or Joshua (or Whyte !!) in the first half of next year. If not, he'll be in danger of forefeiting being rated by a lot of people who rate him high currently.

 

I honestly think Usyk cleans up the division.

You can add that to your little list.

 

List of what?

 

Usyk is a very good boxer and has power, he's hard as nails too, a problem for anyone in the division, as I'm sure we are going to see.

Fury is fighting a load of rubbish at the moment, considering where he's ranked and rated, but I understand it. He was incredibly brave to go in with Wilder when not 100% and clearly rusty so, as Unforgiven said, you can let him off for taking some easier fights to get rid off all the cobwebs. I just don't like that Fury has gone around criticizing other boxers for doing the exact thing he's doing now. I like Fury, I think he's a likeable character and great for the sport, but he doesn't half talk some contradictory nonsense at times. I don't buy the whole "inspiring others to turn their lives around" thing either. If me or my mates got addictions, severe depression and lost our jobs we'd not have the carrot of multi million pound fights dangling in front of us to inspire us. I was signed off work before and the help I got was offered cheaper counselling and letters through the door for unpaid bills. The motivation for me was keeping my house because I had nowhere else to go. I don't mean to get the violin out but I'm just putting things into perspective, it wasn't like Fury was having to go down the job centre and living off of 10p noodles.

 

Hasn't Arum just negotiated Loma v Campbell with Hearn?

 

A fair point but Campbell is mandatory and wants the fight and as far as I'm aware Arum has a co promotional deal with K2 who Hearn has a good working relationship with. Fury has a co promotional deal with Warren and I cannot see a situation where Warren would allow Fury to fight on a DAZN or Sky card.