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Surely Fury and Warren knew that this move jeopardises the wilder rematch and, probably, any future fight with Joshua? Interesting and disappointing at the same time!
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Well that sucks this is for sure going to take Fury out of the running for any fight with Wilder. Probably also takes him out of the running for a fight with Joshua as well. ESPN has nobody at heavyweight or Middleweight/Super Middleweight. Saunders is left out in the cold to fight bums as well. DAZN has all the Middleweight. Now it makes sense why he is moving to 168 not that Top Rank has much there either. Ramirez just moved up to 175 because Top Rank can't get him any relevant fights at 168.Comment
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Even though I would rather see Fury with Showtime or DAZN, so the fights with Wilder and AJ could happen, this makes the most sense for him financially.
Wilder and AJ have both been making a lot of money on Showtime and DAZN by fighting easier opponents than each other. Now Fury is going to do the same thing. Fury may take a few easy fights with Top Rank heavyweights before fighting AJ or Wilder.Comment
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Disappointing. I wonder how much ESPN played a role in this trying to get a big name heavyweight. Only decent in-house fighters would be Pulev and Rivas but ESPN may be content throwing any marginal opponent in there with Fury then hyping it up like only they can.
Question is where does Wilder go next as far as opponents? Have Brazeale and Whyte finalized terms? Is Kownacki a possibility? With the big 3 aligned to different promotional teams it not on makes things difficult for them to fight but also further dilutes the number of other opponents that they could fight without promotional conflicts.Comment
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It's no secret that Bob Arum does not like Al Haymon. Therefore, outside of a purse bid it's going to be very difficult to get this fight done because now it's two against one. Both Frank Warren and Bob Arum would team up in order to cut Al Haymon completely out of the picture unless Deontay Wilder allows them.Comment
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Fury had a right to do this....this is big money, and endless exposure to American sports fans.
Fury is a star in America, and he is going to get even bigger.
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In doing this now, with the Wilder rematch almost secure, it tells me that Fury is ducking the rematch, the same way he ducked Wladimir, Fury knows he could get ser hurt in a rematch, and that could hurt his ability to earn, in going to ESPN, which has no heavyweights, Fury can fight parade of overmatched opponents, make a ton of money, and easily transition into sports television.
The good news, is that Joshua/Wilder, just got alot more possible, not right away, but this year.Comment
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I wouldn't be shocked if some of this is is because Wilder/Fury 2 was going to destroy Crawford/Khan which was already announced on PPV and in NYC. Then Wilder/Fury was set for 2 dates 1 week after Crawford/Khan in NYC or 3 weeks after Crawford/Khan. If Wilder/Fury get's made it kills the Crawford ticket sales both fights that close in NY.
Now Arum kills the main competition to his PPV and takes a shot at Haymon who he hates like poison freezing Wilder out of fights. As fans it sucks we won't get this fight.Comment
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