Comments Thread For: Tyson Fury on Anthony Joshua's loss: 'Age doesn't wait for anybody'

[Boro]

Joshua fighting the first big puncher who has ability since Povetkin (Helenius can punch, he'd knock his head into the rafters but he doesn't have the wherewithal to land) and he immediately fell to pieces from that ramrod jab.

Truth is Eddie is one hell of snake oil merchant and plenty were buying.

[Roberto Vasquez]

Aj alway's avoided the best until Usyk.
Aj ducked Fury twice, that's why we got Chisora & don't forget Wilder in 18.
Last night proved the reason why being the challenger but the A-side for everything. Hearn sent back the Fury contract demanding A-side status & commercial control as its written into Ajs sponsorship contracts. Yet fanboy's claimed Fury was the difficult one. Sure sure sure

Just because someone loses it doesn't suddenly mean lies become true.

AJ has tried to fight Fury 3 times, and was literally still chasing him before this fight. Fury even agreed to a fight with AJ when he knew he was contracted to fight Wilder for 3rd time.

Same with Wilder - Widler ducked AJ (who had 3 belts) to fight Fury (big name, low risk because had been retired on 2 year PED ban). Wilder even said so on Youtube!

[Willow The Wisp]

Isn't 34-35 still considered "prime" years?

A very individual thing.

[Willow The Wisp]

Only by Promoter's like Hearn talking old heavyweights up.
Your phisical prime is 27-31, that's just facts yet when Aj boxed 4 38-41 year olds all this heavyweights get better with age bs began. They're spitting bubbles after 6 rounds unless you swim for 10 hrs at a time like Usyk.
Look at the greatest Ali mid 20s prime or Mike Tyson 19-23 prime, then muppets say Foreman! Yeah he beat a fat Light heavy in a multi belt era after loosing every round landing 1 punch.

I don't agree. A number of factors determine when a fighter becomes his best. Some peak at 21, others at 37.
This is what a study of history teaches.

[Willow The Wisp]

Just because someone loses it doesn't suddenly mean lies become true.

AJ has tried to fight Fury 3 times, and was literally still chasing him before this fight. Fury even agreed to a fight with AJ when he knew he was contracted to fight Wilder for 3rd time.

Same with Wilder - Widler ducked AJ (who had 3 belts) to fight Fury (big name, low risk because had been retired on 2 year PED ban). Wilder even said so on Youtube!

The whole concept of "Ducking" stories is highly suspect and largely BS. Everyone has these Ducking stories.

Those never ACTUALLY have anything to do with the fighters themselves. These are multi-million dollar deals that are hashed out by business representatives, and negotiations can be highly complex.

People posting their theories based on blog media tidbits or (largely) misinformation, do so for their own amusement; but even those who were present at the negotiation table often come away with divergent ideas about why the negotiations failed to produce a fight.

People don't even decide to become fighters if they possess ANY reluctance to test themselves against the best.

Duh.

[Roberto Vasquez]

The whole concept of "Ducking" stories is highly suspect and largely BS. Everyone has these Ducking stories.

Those never ACTUALLY have anything to do with the fighters themselves. These are multi-million dollar deals that are hashed out by business representatives, and negotiations can be highly complex.

People posting their theories based on blog media tidbits or (largely) misinformation, do so for their own amusement; but even those who were present at the negotiation table often come away with divergent ideas about why the negotiations failed to produce a fight.

People don't even decide to become fighters if they possess ANY reluctance to test themselves against the best.

Duh.

To some extent. It's fighter's fans who are the greatest enablers of the promoters though. They make the excuses for them. Often using their wallet!

Also Tyson Fury saying "I will never fight Joshua" multiple times - does rather sound like it comes from the fighter.

And when you look at a fighter's overall record - it becomes clear who is fighting the highest level opposition and who is taking risks and who is choosing to fight MMA fighters rather than fight for undisputed. *And* who is "retiring" to avoid contracted rematches...

If a fighter wants a fight - they will get it. See Nathan Cleverly when he wanted Kovalev - despite being advised to avoid him.

[elfag]

The whole concept of "Ducking" stories is highly suspect and largely BS. Everyone has these Ducking stories.

Those never ACTUALLY have anything to do with the fighters themselves. These are multi-million dollar deals that are hashed out by business representatives, and negotiations can be highly complex.

People posting their theories based on blog media tidbits or (largely) misinformation, do so for their own amusement; but even those who were present at the negotiation table often come away with divergent ideas about why the negotiations failed to produce a fight.

People don't even decide to become fighters if they possess ANY reluctance to test themselves against the best.

Duh.

Well yeah Fury tried to fight AJ atleast that one time and Wilder dragged him into court for the 3rd match. They were arguing over if Wilder had rights to the 2nd rematch or if enough time elapsed like a year or something blah blah blah. So Fury ended up fighting him a 3rd time.

[Liondw]

I wish I was 34, that's young.

But yeah, maybe Joshua is an old 34, had quite a few battles in the ring, sparring included.

With his money, he might be wondering why get out of bed to go train hard.

He probably takes a rematch to try one more time.