NSB PICK EM 2023 #24 - #25: SATURDAY 22nd APRIL 2023

[SteveM]

Never believed in Usyk vs Fury to be honest.

Better said, I do not trust Tyson Fury one iota.

wotcha onabout guv? eez very honorable is Tyson, just like Fury eye-gouger Sr.

[siablo14]

Never believed in Usyk vs Fury to be honest.

Better said, I do not trust Tyson Fury one iota.

Yeah man. Fury aint sh-t on this one.

[SUBZER0ED]

Never believed in Usyk vs Fury to be honest.

Better said, I do not trust Tyson Fury one iota.

Didn't Fury say he has an "outrageous" announcement to make in the upcoming days? I hope it's not that he now identifies as a woman!

[Tatabanya]

Didn't Fury say he has an "outrageous" announcement to make in the upcoming days? I hope it's not that he now identifies as a woman!

Look, I was stricken by Fury when he came back from booze and obese depression to beat Wilder in the first fight (because he did).

But after he re-established himself at the top, I've consistently been disappointed by his unwillingness to face someone serious besides the aforementioned Wilder.

[SteveM]

Look, I was stricken by Fury when he came back from booze and obese depression to beat Wilder in the first fight (because he did).

But after he re-established himself at the top, I've consistently been disappointed by his unwillingness to face someone serious besides the aforementioned Wilder.

In all honesty, and being fair, I give Fury a pass - after 3 fights with [perhaps0 the hardest hitting boxer of all time and getting knocked down 4 times including unconscious the 2nd time [albeit for moments] then they guy deserves a rest if you can call Chisora and Whyte a rest.

[Citizen Koba]

Next week nothing unless we do the Zepeda fight? no clue what the odds are

this was the weekend that we were supposed to get Usyk-Fury and Ortiz-Stanionis - the 2 biggest disappointments of the year so far.

Yeah. No odds yet but they will assuredly be very wide for Zepeda. I'm thinking to pass this week and then just the obvious 2 the following week. Canelo vs Ryder and Kurbanov vs Soro

[Tatabanya]

In all honesty, and being fair, I give Fury a pass - after 3 fights with [perhaps0 the hardest hitting boxer of all time and getting knocked down 4 times including unconscious the 2nd time [albeit for moments] then they guy deserves a rest if you can call Chisora and Whyte a rest.

I have no problem with this, but I do have problems with him calling out the others, letting everybody believe that it's a done deal every time, then leaving gullible fans without a fight. If he just shut up and kept fighting the Whytes and Chisoras of the world, I wouldn't say a word.

At the end of his career, if things don't change pronto, Fury's so-called "legacy" will be defined by outboxing the statue of an aging Klitschko, and being Wilder's bete noire. Not much, for me. By now even beating AJ - if that fight ever happens - would be a severely diminished result.

[Tatabanya]

PICK EM CREW: On the Canelo vs Ryder undercard, as I just discovered, there's Gvodzyk vs Bolotniks... whaddya say?

[siablo14]

PICK EM CREW: On the Canelo vs Ryder undercard, as I just discovered, there's Gvodzyk vs Bolotniks... whaddya say?

Odds have it as a big mismatch just like Canelo's fight.

So no fights this weekend?

[Tatabanya]

Odds have it as a big mismatch just like Canelo's fight.

So no fights this weekend?

Canelo vs Ryder IS a mismatch, make no mistake. But Bolotniks is a tough sonofabitch, and Gvodzyk is back after a long absence after all.

I believe Koba wanted to run the Canelo fight anyway, plus Kurbanov vs Soro.