Woah! Deontay Wilder charges Tyson Fury on stage before being held back by security

That was about as genuine as Malik Scott's performance vs Wilder. It's clearly all fake, Wilder was smiling while being held back.

Let's hope the fight is more entertaining than all this fakery.

 

Americans love all this WWE style nonsense I find it clichéd and boring.

 

Well that was incredibly fake and boring. The stage looks half empty, like it's a rehearsal for the main thing. Perhaps it should have been, since Wilder's performance certainly needs a lot more work.

 

If it's done right. This is distinctly lacking in energy or drive.

 

I cringed a little when Wilder said, "You're dilling wid a killah," in that nervous and phoney sounding way. I had to turn the video off after that point. It was just too embarrassing, and frankly I wasn't feeling any energy from the video up to that point.

Fury's doing the best he can here, but he doesn't have a good enough dance partner.

 

Yeah the whole thing is cringeworthy. Fury is good at selling a fight but he's better when he's with a straight man like Wlad to make his antics look more crazy, but with Wilder you've got two guys trying to one up the other and it just looks ridiculous.

You want a good guy and a bad guy, casual boxing fans connect with that most simple of story lines. When you've got 2 bad guys, there's nobody to root for and so you don't care and so you won't tune in.

 

Precisely. The dynamics aren't working here.

 

Haha I loved Fury's reply to that "I've seen real killers up front and close and they looked nothing like you."

The funny part is that this is probably true given the fact that his family is littered with hardcore criminals and I believe his father was in prison for 10 years or so for gouging out a man's eye.

 

This whole thing is one big circus act to sell the fight. I'm not taking anything either of them do or say seriously until they start throwing leather on Dec 1st.

 

This is funny they're both clearly friends and both find it hilarious lol. We all know in the ring it'll be down to business for both men whether they're friends or not lol .

 

I think there's a basic error in how they approach Wilder. They've tried to shoe horn him into this 'baddest man on the planet' 21st century Mike Tyson copy instead of looking at who the guy is and trying to fashion their marketing push around that.

Wilder is a family man. He got into boxing to provide for his daughter. He's a million miles from Tyson so don't try and make him into something he's not. It comes across as fake because it is fake.

If I were his manager I'd ditch the bronze bomber third person nonsense and focus on connecting Deontay Wilder to his fans, telling his story, showing what it is he he's fighting for, get him visiting schools and hospitals and telling a positive story about fighting for his country at the Olympics, about how boxing offered him a way to provide for his family, about how proud he was to be able to do that and how he wouldn't let anything stand in his way.

Then you can introduce big, bad, brash loudmouth Tyson Fury with his questionable drug history and propensity for insulting groups of people for no reason. Suddenly we have a good vs evil narrative that could grab people.

 

"You big dosser!"

 

I'm only going to take this stuff seriously when Fury puts on his Batman kit. Till then...

 

Hey less of the old man. Finkel is younger than Luis Ortiz and he's apparently in his prime.

 

All this silliness is doubling the fight night income. Peanut and fish eyes can call it the biggest fight in the world all they want but they need to be doing this to help it grow.

I hope fury is getting paid well cuz he's selling this fight on his own at the moment. Deontay isn't doing Jack **** with his mumbling and drawn out answers that don't even make any sense.

Deontay and his crew thought he would be the big man at these pressers and be all charismatic and inspirational, no, everybody just thinks he's a bit of a goon who hits really hard.