Comments Thread for: Tyson Fury signs ESPN fight deal worth reported £80m

[_original_]

there's always an asterisk though. Lomachenko has an exclusive contract with Top Rank/ESPN but he's fought on Showtime.

Lol way before the ESPN deal, right after he lost to Salido.

[SN!PER]

ESPN deal is to keep Fury's money coming regardless if he wins or loses.

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Damn, Fury just got paid. No wonder he could afford to give away his Wilder purse to charity.

[Szef]

So in the end, Fury is just like any other fighter out there, he's all about money.

Who the fck will he fight now? Pulev? Rivas?

Can't blame him obviously but still it's a little disappointing

[_Rexy_]

Yeah in 2014 or whatever when he was a 1-1 prospect.

Has he been on Showtime since the TR/ESPN deal started?

Isn't that deal only 8 months old?

and off the top of my head (I remember watching it, just not what station) Wasn't Parker/Whyte on Showtime?

[Ray*]

So in the end, Fury is just like any other fighter out there, he's all about money.

Who the fck will he fight now? Pulev? Rivas?

Can't blame him obviously but still it's a little disappointing

Yeah don't blame him, all fighters are all about the money. Some just like to pretend as if it doesn't matter to them. No one wants to be getting hit in the head for peanuts.

[Tom Cruise]

Isn't that deal only 8 months old?

and off the top of my head (I remember watching it, just not what station) Wasn't Parker/Whyte on Showtime?

You aren’t filling me with confidence with your examples of TR fighters fighting on Sho my man

Arum doesn’t like his major stars playing with anyone else. Always been that way. Fury, at approx $20mill a fight, is now one of his major stars.

At the very least you have to acknowledge this makes the Wilder fight much more difficult to make.

[Tom Cruise]

So in the end, Fury is just like any other fighter out there, he's all about money.

Who the fck will he fight now? Pulev? Rivas?

Can't blame him obviously but still it's a little disappointing

Yep that’s how I feel. I can’t blame Fury for doing what every other fighter has done, but it could have ****ed the division for the foreseeable future.

If the major fights do happen they will be after long drawn out negotiations, and likely with plenty of filler fights in between to make sure the networks get their due.

This was already the case with Wilder vs AJ, now we can add Fury to that mix as well.

[_Rexy_]

You aren’t filling me with confidence with your examples of TR fighters fighting on Sho my man

Arum doesn’t like his major stars playing with anyone else. Always been that way. Fury, at approx $20mill a fight, is now one of his major stars.

At the very least you have to acknowledge this makes the Wilder fight much more difficult to make.

Arum doesn't like his major stars playing with others, but Arum also has the following Heavyweights: Pulev, Jennings and Rivas.

Gonna need to do some cross promotional thing for his 5 fights considering he doesn't even have 5 fighters.

[R_Walken]

Im a Fury fan but you cant take this news as anything other then he didn’t really want that rematch. Because if he did and was confident of winning and not getting bombed out he would signed after have after a May rematch with Wilder

Dont hate a fighter getting paid , But’s it’s wack for fans that the Top 3 HW will all now be on different platforms with basically no chance of fighting each other anytime soon.