Comments Thread For: Arum Expects Fury To Become Undisputed Champ and Mega-Star

[tonysoprano]

I guess old Bob doesn't know when Fury won the title, his big mouth caused such a public backlash there was a threat to boycott an awards ceremony because Fury had been nominated.

His mental breakdown followed the mauling he got by the mainstream media when they realised what a douchbag he actually is.

[just the facts]

Bob quit bullshitting us. If that was true then you would have never sabotaged the Wilder/Fury rematch in the first place. The fact is you are setting Fury up to fail and the sad thing is that he doesn't even realize it.

Never thought of that angle. Good point.

[champion4ever]

Never thought of that angle. Good point.

The question is what are his plans for Fury now after he sabotaged the Wilder rematch? He has no title belts to offer him and no crossover box office Heavyweight contenders. Wilder won't be fighting on ESPN anytime soon and neither is Joshua. So I posed the question again what are his plans for him after Wilder?

[champion4ever]

I think Fury will be fine. It’s Bob, and more importantly his relationship with ESPN that’s being setup to fail. Because I imagine ESPN is putting up a lot of the money for Fury’s deal. And I just don’t see how they’re gonna get any kinda return on it. Fury can yap and sell all he wants. The average casual fan is gonna think he’s boring in the ring. Fury and AJ are contractually tied to competing networks with huge contracts. And I don’t think AJ-Fury is big enough yet to do a joint promotion and have both sides make a huge amount of money splitting everything 50/50. Wilder is the most flexible of the three. But there’s really no need for him to run over to ESPN for less than a fortune. Especially when it’s ESPN that is gonna need him far more than he needs them.

I agree and this talk about him doing late night talk shows with Jimmy Kimmel and wanting the public at large to know him, to take care for him, listen to his story is absurd. How is that going to put meat in the seats when he fights? He has to put on crowd pleasing performances in the boxing ring in order to captivate the boxing audience.

[1hourRun]

I realised that we could do for him what we did for George Foreman.

George Foreman actually failed twice in his attempt at winning gold upon his return to the sport of boxing under Top-Rank vs. the prime young Americans in Evander 'Real Deal' Holyfield for the IBF, WBA, WBC HW titles and the WBO against the 'Duke' Tommy Morrison.

It was Foreman's hard work ethic, determination and awesome power that made him legendary that fateful night in November the 5th 1994 vs. the undefeated Michael Moore.

Tyson has nothing in common with big George, other than depression, obesecity, failure to win the WBC title on his return and going bald. Even now in Tyson Fury's prime he can't punch half as hard as 45 year old Big-George Foreman to save his life. Foreman was the goods, Tyson is a snide Gypsy door to door salesman -- no thanks Bob.

[Eff Pandas]

Fury could 100% become undisputed. I don't envision him becoming a mega star doe.

I dig Fury's boxing ability & I think he's doing sh^t in the ring you'll virtually never see a super HW do in the ring let alone as much as Fury can do it. But most mfers ain't into all that type of stuff & the crossover appeal of a slick & crafty HW who looks 42 years old without one punch KO power isn't good lets be real.

[Eff Pandas]

It’s Bob, and more importantly his relationship with ESPN that’s being setup to fail. Because I imagine ESPN is putting up a lot of the money for Fury’s deal. And I just don’t see how they’re gonna get any kinda return on it. Fury can yap and sell all he wants. The average casual fan is gonna think he’s boring in the ring.

Idk that Bob would make a deal that'd put him THAT at risk to fail with ESPN. Unless things are going south behind the scenes already & he gots to make a pass/fail move, but the restructuring of the ESPN deal to a better deal + them throwing him more money for Fury would have me thinking he's in good shape with ESPN for now.

But I am curious how Bob see that he can make this Fury thing some big W for ESPN. I just don't see it. He's either gotta make the Wilder rematch, the Joshua fight or make Fury some sorta George Foreman folk hero type mfer.

None of those options seem that likely to me

Wilder seems locked in with Showtime or DAZN if they offer him a deal he can't refuse at some point for Joshua. Joshua is obviously the money guy in the division so everyone is gonna need to come to him or ESPN or Showtime is gonna need to offer him a sh^tton of money to acquire his services if DAZN drops the ball at some point. And making a guy who's got mental issues & will use gay slurs or say controversial sh^t in general into some 2019 version of Foreman seems like it could be the biggest longshot to happen honestly.

[Oshio]

By fighting guys like Schwarz where there is a fighter like Josh? Well, to dream is free. You don't subscribe to dream

[Tutsa]

Government bud

Atleast bobs smoking that hydro weed . Ever interview he goes into a cosmic universe like khan vs bud where going to be talked about my great grand children. Just go already old man

[Motorcity Cobra]

Nobody will buy it either. It shouldn't even be an undercard fight on a PPV let alone a main event.

🗣️ Asked Frank Warren about criticism of Fury vs Schwarz being on PPV: “Tyson’s certainly in the league now – after his performance against Wilder – where most, if not all, of his fights are now on PPV. That’s where he’s at now. Same as Anthony Joshua. That’s where he’s at.”

— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) May 13, 2019