My sources got in touch with those at BT sport (uk based channel) and apparently Tyson Furys fight against an unknown Seferi was the biggest watched fight on a subscription channel THIS WHOLE YEAR!! Eddie Hearn must be crying his beady little eyes out.
Imagine how much a Tyson Fury fight against an actual known opponent would do!!
He is the biggest star and attraction in WORLD BOXING! Already breaking records.
Poor Eddie Hearn with only his sky sports and DAZN deals to work with. He must be gutted that his main uk rival has his biggest fight based on a 3 year lay off versus me handyman, 5th best in the whole of Iceland (or somewhere slightly smaller)!
Fury is also breaking records for the biggest cherry picker ever for a top contender. His first comeback fight was against a guy boxrec ranked 69th in the world at cruiserweight and his next fight will be against a guy boxrec ranks 119th at heavyweight. Is Fury ever going to fight a top 50 heavyweight? You call Fury TBE. Is that based on his pitty pat punching win over a very old and sub par Wlad? Wow! It must be that win because no other win he has is any big deal. It couldn't be his win over light punching cruiserweight Cunningham because he got dropped hard in that fight. If Wilder or AJ hit him like that he won't beat the count.
There was a whole lot of hype around the return of fury at that point... however fury turned the fight and the build up into bit of a circus act. Now hes fighting another can, cant see this pulling anywhere near the interest that the seferi fight did.
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