Comments Thread For: Fury: Joshua's Bubble Has Been Burst - Spanked By Usyk Twice, KO'd By a Fat Man

[Zelda]

Let's see...the who's who of the boxing world and celebrities are being invited for the Fury fight. A lot of ex-champs will be there. Will AJ be invited and will he attend a Fury fight? If AJ/Eddie turn up, they have a chance to strike up a relationship with the new guys in Saudi but ego would come in the way of attending a Fury megafight they have been dismissing for some time.

[Toffee]

Let's see...the who's who of the boxing world and celebrities are being invited for the Fury fight. A lot of ex-champs will be there. Will AJ be invited and will he attend a Fury fight? If AJ/Eddie turn up, they have a chance to strike up a relationship with the new guys in Saudi but ego would come in the way of attending a Fury megafight they have been dismissing for some time.

I'm sure you know they probably won't be going to that fight.

The people running it, pretty much all of them, are on the other side of the equation.

[Toffee]

The only time AJ agreed was before his losses to Usyk. Since then, AJ has avoided Fury and has been fighting low-level fighters. I hope he builds his confidence back and does it. But you need to realize that to become WBC mandatory, he has to fight Wilder or Ruiz and that as a mandatory he probably doesn't even get 40%. Also, WBC aren't known to be enforcing their mandatories too much and if Tyson is unified, he has to go through the rest of the sanctioning bodies before WBC.

My guess is Eddie/AJ plans to avoid Fury and look for any belts that will get vacated. If he does get one, then we'll start all over again with who's the A-side and B-side and I do not see that fight happening anytime soon.

All that assumes that Fury fights Usyk. It's still a big assumption. They've said they've signed, it's happening. That's a long way from the fight actually taking place.

As for AJ avoiding Fury since the Usyk fights... the second Usyk fight was only just over a year ago!

When Fury talked about AJ it was purely to deflect from him fighting Chisora, as everyone in the industry said he would. And then to deflect from fighting Ngannou as everyone knew he would.

I'm not saying AJ was trying to make a Fury fight. After back to back losses he would have been ****** to go for that quick turnaround in the biggest fight of his career. He was after rebuild fights, and then Wilder - and it seems they had agreed to fight.

But Fury was certainly not trying to make an AJ fight. I would have thought that was obvious to everyone now.

[Zelda]

All that assumes that Fury fights Usyk. It's still a big assumption. They've said they've signed, it's happening. That's a long way from the fight actually taking place.

As for AJ avoiding Fury since the Usyk fights... the second Usyk fight was only just over a year ago!

When Fury talked about AJ it was purely to deflect from him fighting Chisora, as everyone in the industry said he would. And then to deflect from fighting Ngannou as everyone knew he would.

I'm not saying AJ was trying to make a Fury fight. After back to back losses he would have been ****** to go for that quick turnaround in the biggest fight of his career. He was after rebuild fights, and then Wilder - and it seems they had agreed to fight.

But Fury was certainly not trying to make an AJ fight. I would have thought that was obvious to everyone now.

That's a mix of half-facts and heavily opinionated.

It is probably right that AJ did not fancy taking the Fury fight immediately after two losses to Usyk. That would probably have hurt his career a lot more. I can understand that, but then that is exactly what they should say. Don't say the offer was not there or just to deflect or this or that. Fury did send an offer to Joshua, which probably was because he had no other big offer at that time and AJ looked like an easy picking, but it was a legit offer that team AJ refused.

Another offer was made for Sept. prior to Fury getting the Ngannou offer from Saudi when they were looking at Ruiz or Zhang fights. Fury fighting Chisora was more of a backup plan that every serious promoter (or any event handler) keeps. However, a backup plan is activated when the front-end plan fails. Much like AJ-Helenius was easy to make after Whyte tested positive because it was nearly negotiated even when they were dealing with Whyte.

[Madison Boxing]

yea hes on the way down (or simply was overhyped in the first place) but joshua is still a better opponent than whyte, chisora and an MMA fighter