Comments Thread For: Fury: I Came To ESPN To Make Wilder Rematch As Big As Possible

[champion4ever]

This is all BS/ with all those "homes" Khan/Crawford had, how many buys did it do? More than Fury/Wilder?

I think not, the rematch would have sold like crazy because of the personality of the fighters, and the compelling first matchup.

I am a huge fan of fury, as are many Americans at this point, he needs to be honest and just state that he didn't want the Wilder Smoke just yet, he wanted to earn a couple paychecks first.

That was well said! Good point!

[champion4ever]

Fury messed Wilder and the WBC around pretending he wanted the rematch whilst all along he was plotting to move to Top Rank and ESPN he had no intentions of rematching Wilder and now he’s fighting the 9th best heavyweight in Germany the 58th ranked Tom Scharwz it’s embarrassing

You are spot on! Fury never wanted the rematch. It was always a one and done deal with Tyson Fury.

Now he finds himself isolated and trapped by Top Rank. Bob Arum is not going give his career the push that it needs. He really has no use for him.

He said that his plans for Tyson Fury was to make him the next George Foreman. Market him into this Celebrity/TV personality and not a crossover, mainstream box office draw who can fight.

Who is he going to fight now that is going to justify his $100 mil contract with ESPN; No one? It's just like I said before and I am going to say it again. Bob didn't sign Fury in order to help Tyson Fury but to hurt The PBC, Al Haymon and Showtime.

[bronx7]

They are stalling regrouping setting up max payout but there will absolutely eventually be a rematch guaranteed

[Bronx2245]

Hate It or Love It, It's Gonna Be Lit! No Question! I think it'll be an ESPN PPV too!

[Corbett]

You are spot on! Fury never wanted the rematch. It was always a one and done deal with Tyson Fury.

Now he finds himself isolated and trapped by Top Rank. Bob Arum is not going give his career the push that it needs. He really has no use for him.

He said that his plans for Tyson Fury was to make him the next George Foreman. Market him into this Celebrity/TV personality and not a crossover, mainstream box office draw who can fight.

Who is he going to fight now that is going to justify his $100 mil contract with ESPN; No one? It's just like I said before and I am going to say it again. Bob didn't sign Fury in order to help Tyson Fury but to hurt The PBC, Al Haymon and Showtime.

Fury didn’t find himself trapped he locked himself away in the basement!!!

ESPN have made a huge mistake signing Fury he will prove to be a massive flop inside the ring and he was never a big ticket seller in the UK so I can’t see how he will sell well in the States.

For Bob Arum to compare Fury to George Foreman is laughable I’m not sure they understand how uninterested most of the UK public are in Furys career he has a very loyal and strong but very poor socio economic group online following but that doesn’t translate into ticket sales or PPV buys.

He ran away from the Wilder rematch and now will 100% disappoint ESPN and look terrible fighting nobodies.

[Buggy bear]

" I didn't come here to fight bums " and " money means nothing to me ". .. strange guy , very odd..

[champion4ever]

Fury didn’t find himself trapped he locked himself away in the basement!!!

ESPN have made a huge mistake signing Fury he will prove to be a massive flop inside the ring and he was never a big ticket seller in the UK so I can’t see how he will sell well in the States.

For Bob Arum to compare Fury to George Foreman is laughable I’m not sure they understand how uninterested most of the UK public are in Furys career he has a very loyal and strong but very poor socio economic group online following but that doesn’t translate into ticket sales or PPV buys.

He ran away from the Wilder rematch and now will 100% disappoint ESPN and look terrible fighting nobodies.

You are batting a thousand. I wholeheartedly agree.

[Eff Pandas]

Well there is the theory that Arum is great at building up fights that he can't make happen.

Problem for Fury is I believe he wants to have a rematch with Wilder, but idk that I can see it happening UNTIL his deal with TR is over.

[RoyJonesJrp4pno1]

" I didn't come here to fight bums " and " money means nothing to me ". .. strange guy , very odd..

Fury is hypocritical. Basically, he does the opposite of whatever he says.

[Eff Pandas]

For Bob Arum to compare Fury to George Foreman is laughable I’m not sure they understand how uninterested most of the UK public are in Furys career he has a very loyal and strong but very poor socio economic group online following but that doesn’t translate into ticket sales or PPV buys.

LOL yea I don't get that comparison at all.

But mainly I see the issue as Big George had a family friendly "Where's My Cheeseburger" angle to his popularity & Fury is living in a different era & has a different style to him where he's more likely to say something offensive to gay people or some ethnic group than he'll be talking about cheeseburgers.

Fury is no Big George in virtually anyway that I can pinpoint that would make him have the appeal of Big George. About the only comparisons to be made between them is they are both boxers, they are both HW's & they both like to talk a lot.