Comments Thread For: Eddie Hearn: Tyson Fury vs. Oleksandr Usyk Not Big Enough For Saudi Arabia

[takenotes]

Should hold the fight in Kiev since nothing is really going on there

[Monty Fisto]

Screw having fights over there to begin with. Those guys don't know anything about boxing and there are so many restrictive and draconian rules over there. All they have is that oil $$$. Most of the fights over there have zero excitement from the crowds compared to UK or USA. No hype.

You said it.

This biggest interest in this fight comes from UK boxing fans. UK boxing fans do not want this fight in Saudi Arabia.

Surprised the Saudis have time for boxing when they are so busy blowing up hospitals, schools and markets in Yemen, locking up people for expressing basic opinions about equal rights on social media, and executing people for having sex outside marriage.

[TheVoiceOfReason]

Joshua has already been soundly beaten twice by Usyk. Usyk and Fury are the two top undefeated heavyweights. So Fury vs. Usyk is a much bigger fight for boxing (if not for British fans) than Fury vs. Joshua. The fight is more important to both Fury's and Usyk's legacies than any fight with Joshua.

[Murray Kelm]

Saudi Arabia, is much like China, craving international recognition, by hosting large events, trying to show the world that they are a modern society, even though they care very little for the event that they are hosting.

[Monty Fisto]

Saudi Arabia, is much like China, craving international recognition, by hosting large events, trying to show the world that they are a modern society, even though they care very little for the event that they are hosting.

Ditching the medieval lashings and criminal sentences for witchcraft might be a more persuasive demonstration of a modern society.

[Monty Fisto]

Joshua has already been soundly beaten twice by Usyk. Usyk and Fury are the two top undefeated heavyweights. So Fury vs. Usyk is a much bigger fight for boxing (if not for British fans) than Fury vs. Joshua. The fight is more important to both Fury's and Usyk's legacies than any fight with Joshua.

Joshua has already lost twice to Usyk, correct.
Usyk and Fury are the two top undefeated heavyweights, correct.
Fury vs Usyk is more important right now than a fight with Joshua, I'd agree.

Does the evidence suggest the Saudis are crazy for a Fury vs Usyk fight? It really doesn't appear so.

[QballLobo]

Hearn is the guy with the Saudi blood money connections. No Hearn, no SA payday.

[Marchegiano]

Ditching the medieval lashings and criminal sentences for witchcraft might be a more persuasive demonstration of a modern society.

Don't they still chop off heads in public?

[Monty Fisto]

Don't they still chop off heads in public?

Yes. Sometimes they hang them, or occasionally by firing squad.

They executed 20 people for drug offences last November -- despite in January 2020 putting out a statement that they would no longer execute people for such offences. They also execute people who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime, flouting international law.

[Marchegiano]

Yes. Sometimes they hang them, or occasionally by firing squad.

They executed 20 people for drug offences last November -- despite in January 2020 putting out a statement that they would no longer execute people for such offences. They also execute people who were under the age of 18 at the time of the crime, flouting international law.

Crazy. All that goes away if you put on a boxing match.