Comments Thread For: Photos: Povetkin Derails Matchroom Debut of Hughie Fury

[Idunnoshet]

I feel like this match-up was designed to build up Povetkin rather than Hughie in the first place. Hearn must now plan to match Povetkin against one of his main guys like Whyte or Usyk

Good point .
I can see Hearn doing that for Usyk .
Not so much for Whyte after the PED fiasco .

[giant_king]

I want be surprise if Alex PED testing comes back positive later on but then again maybe he bought himself a top of the line chemist this time and beats it lol

[DFM]

Povetkin vs. Pulev make it happen.

[Roberto Vasquez]

David price vs hughie “Ali” fury coming up

Haha that's what I want to see! I can't think of any other fight that would sell now

[trippers1]

Hearn will just use hughie like a dave allen/ chisora type of guy jist keep putting them on cards against high ranked people wouldnt be surprised to see usyk v fury at some point to get him used to the size/awkwardness that someone like tyson would provide

[MulaKO]

All of a sudden Hughie is this big threat

Lmfao

[_Rexy_]

I feel like this match-up was designed to build up Povetkin rather than Hughie in the first place. Hearn must now plan to match Povetkin against one of his main guys like Whyte or Usyk

They probably wanted to build Hughie up to fight Usyk. Now they're stuck with Povetkin's old ass

[JakeTheBoxer]

They probably wanted to build Hughie up to fight Usyk. Now they're stuck with Povetkin's old ass

They must be morons if they believed Hughie could beat Povetkin.

[GFunk23]

Hughie has some skills but he lacks the power and/or the aggressiveness needed in the pros. It doesn’t seem like he tries to really hurt people and is content jabbing off the back foot for 12 rounds which won’t win fights against good opponents. I didn’t think he could beat Povetkin.
I only saw the last 4 rounds but Povetkin won all 4

[WarMaidana]

I feel like this match-up was designed to build up Povetkin rather than Hughie in the first place. Hearn must now plan to match Povetkin against one of his main guys like Whyte or Usyk

that's a good point, never thought about that