Comments Thread For: Arum: Fury Will Attract The U.S. Fans Like George Foreman Did

[TheBigLug]

Wrong.
test samples taken between February and March in 2015, before Fury’s first bout with Klitschko, led to an investigation by UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) officials. The paper said that Fury and his cousin “then attended a meeting in September, when he was told the levels of the steroid found were higher than the body would naturally produce”.
He then fought Wlad in Nov.

I'm not even interested in arguing about this but needed to establish some facts here.

Fury first talked about his depression in articles as far back as 2011

[Redd Foxx]

Fury first talked about his depression in articles as far back as 2011

Let's just keep updating then.
And, as a guy who has suffered chronic depression, I'll say that substance abuse aggravates it to an extreme degree. If the baby boy has issues, he shouldn't be out partying with fans like he was when he got "injured" to delay the rematch. He strikes me as a phony.

[KillaMane26]

Fury can talk but if he don't have the right dance partner nobody outside of hardcore boxing fans will care! Not taking Wilder Rematch didnt help either smh

[Bobby Deez]

I don't see it happening. Save the sob story on the so called greatest comeback. You was out for doping, cuz.

[Adamsc151]

Not too sure about that Bob... George Foreman knocked people out and had power comparable to the likes of Joshua and Wilder, whereas Fury is more of a slick points winner.
Don't get me wrong, Fury's personality will attract fans at first but only purists will watch more than a handful of his fights without getting bored.

[Oshio]

Someone should please remind Arum that George Foreman did not fight the kind of opponents Fury is fighting now.

[StrangerInTown]

Foreman achieved so very much in an unimaginable and astounding career?

What, with 3 wins over Moorer, Norton and Frazier? Yeah, unimaginable there. How you can't be great with such a huge resume is anyone's guess.

You make Arum sound sane in this piece. Nothing what Foreman did was unimaginable in any way. Nor is he great.

Foreman won a legit Heavyweight title two decades after his initial retirement.
Enough Said.

[Sid-Knee]

Foreman won a legit Heavyweight title two decades after his initial retirement.
Enough Said.

He got dominated by a former Lightheavy in Moorer until he tired out and stood in front of him for too long late in the fight.

It's great he stuck it out and ended up winning the title back, but age is just a number. It's the wins that matter. And all George has is 3 good wins to his name. Sorry, but many fighters who have done that don't even come close to being called by the lofty descriptions that George has . And many have a lot more skill than George did too.

[OCPancho]

George was a Yankee gold medalist when it was worth something.
Fury is a foreigner who is not very exciting himself.
Sorry, peeps aren't going to fight for his $400 tickets .

[OCPancho]

He got dominated by a former Lightheavy in Moorer until he tired out and stood in front of him for too long late in the fight.

It's great he stuck it out and ended up winning the title back, but age is just a number. It's the wins that matter. And all George has is 3 good wins to his name. Sorry, but many fighters who have done that don't even come close to being called ATG's. And many have a lot more skill than George did too.

Of course you conveniently forgot he had the highest KO rate for a heavyweight champion that time.
And the man he ko'd was Joe Fkkn Frazier.

How many great wins did Marciano have ?
Jack Johnson ?