Honestly, I'm just sick of boxing's matchmaking at this point. This fight is a joke, when there was much better fights on the table for us fans. I think Fury likely knows this is ridiculous deep down. I'm a Fury fan, and I think he's the best of this generation, and beats Joshua, and likely Usyk if they did face, right. However, part of me wants to see him lose in this fight, just as a wake up call for boxers, and their promoters. They try to milk the cash cows for as long as possible, that when we do end up having the big named fighters fighting the other top fighters, they're well out of their prime.
The public has basically been robbed of a Fury vs Joshua fight for a few years now. I didn't mind with the Wilder trilogy as you always had that threat, but Chisora is well out of it these days, and it would take Fury being complacent to lose here, which honestly I've seen him get complacent before. The Wallin fight comes to mind.
Of course he knows it's a farce but he's got to sell it anyway. I would also agree with you that it would serve him right if he did lose this fight and part of me hopes he does. Hopefully Chisora knows the chance he's been given and grabs it with both hands. He shouldn't throw away the best and likely last chance he will have to win those belts. I'm hoping he actually turns on the heat and forces Fury into matching him because if this just turns into a public sparring session Fury's fans are going to be pissed, especially in how much they've shelled out for the fight. Personally I think this is going to be a flop on all fronts.
Yeah, If Fury was going to go full force I'd go for a Fury KO early on but I think he's going to be fairly reserved for the first few rounds. Basically think of this as an open public sparring session. Fury and Chisora are somewhat friendly so think of this just as Fury giving him one last big pay day and for him to keep off the ring rust until the Usyk fight. I suspect it will be quite a boring fight unless Chisora decides to go for glory and Fury has to turn up the heat to match him.
Do you know how are ticket sales and PPV going for this fight?
I expect stadium will be full unless there is some World Cup game in the same time, but I don't think England is playing in same time.
No. They're never going to release PPV numbers before a fight and they usually just lie about them after the fight. You can usually tell when a fight has flopped or not done as well as anticipated as they're vague about the numbers or waffle on about how it did better than expected or the numbers would surprise people without actually telling you the figure. They also say shit like
the full numbers aren't in yet and
we need to count them up from all providers. Bullshit. They know them in real time especially for the big markets. I'm not sure they will fill a stadium in freezing cold England for a fight even most Fury fans don't seem to care about and I doubt many will be buying the PPV either and I hope they don't. Fans should vote with their money by not giving it to them. It's the only way they'll listen. If these sorts of fights flop then they won't get made and the big ones like V Aj will instead because they know that will be a blockbuster and it sells itself.
Why Joshua don't want to fight or avoid fighting with Fury?
I think he is probably scared because he knows that Fury can outsmart him and win the fight.
This would be great fight to watch, I think this could be last Fury fight, he is now saying about become used car salesman, because he needs to have some purpose
I find it's usually not the fighters. The fighters want to fight, and for their own legacy they want to test themselves. After all, most of them have rather big egos. However, I find that their promotions, and managers tend to hold off from the big fights to try, and take as much money as they can by milking the cash cow.
Fury is trying to sell this fight, but at the end of the day he'll know how much of a joke it is. Fair enough, Chisora once was a great fighter, but he's never been the great. Fury is, and he should be fighting the next best which is either Joshua or Usyk in my opinion. Even if it isn't Joshua, that's who we want to see him fight. UK, against UK. Otherwise, match Joshua up with Wilder.
This is why I've pretty much fully converted to UFC at least we get the fights we want, because they don't wrap their fighters records in bubble wrap.
It's all parties involved but it's usually down to the fighters getting greedy in my opinion. Promoters just want the fights to happen because if they don't it's no money in their pocket. The only caveat to that is I don't think Hearn really wants AJ to fight Fury next ideally because he knows another loss is going to only damage AJs brand. Bricktop seemed like he was desperate to make the AJ/Fury fight but it was Tyson's fault putting stupid deadlines on it. They should just be busy behind the scenes getting that fight sorted for the end of next year so there's no bullshit in the media; just get it sorted and announce it when the deal is done. Fury can fight Uysk and then maybe ta rematch and AJ can fight some bums and then they can have at it this time next year. Wilder fights Ruiz and then the winner can fight Fury in 2024 or if in 2023 if there's time and one of the other fights fall through.
