Comments Thread For: Frank Warren: Joshua Should Vacate Belts, Get It On With Fury

[Shadoww702]

Unifications trump mandatories.

Not with the IBF

[Roberto Vasquez]

Sure, why would Fury want to fight Joshua without all the belts as a reward?

[factsarenice]

Just a thought.

Too bad Warren is as full of crap as Arum. At least Haymon doesn't utter ******ity but then again, his think tank did come up with "the other side of the street" and numerous other nonsense excuses.

So I'm thinking yeah, every time a promoter talks nonsense they should be hit with a Taser. Better yet, have a trained group of BS detectors with plastic wiffle ball bats ready to shin the next BSer. Nothing drastic just sting enough to make them hop around will do.

Just getting it out there while a man can still dream. A man can still dream...no?

[Corelone]

So now they’re talking back in England again? I thought Fury was American now. It makes sense but I was hoping we can claim Fury for the next few fights.

Fury said AJ would have to come to America and Warren said, it would have to be somewhere outside of the UK. Now its all UK to hear Warren talk, but Fury calls the shots.

[Monty Fisto]

So now they’re talking back in England again? I thought Fury was American now. It makes sense but I was hoping we can claim Fury for the next few fights.

Fury lives in Morecambe, Lancashire. He intermittently works in the US since he signed a big deal with ESPN. He is not American. With all the belts held by English fighters, an English fight obviously has appeal. Unless the US offers more money than anywhere else, there is little reason to have the fight in the US, beyond the ESPN tie. Of course, should Fury rematch Wilder, and have another fight before unification, then the ESPN deal will be over.

Wembley stadium in front of 90,000 fans would be the most memorable way to stage it.

[Southpaw010]

Frank Warren is a hypocrite. The same guy in the lead up to this fight saying how dumb Eddie Hearn was for calling for the winner to fight AJ with Warren saying they are doing it 3 times and the winner can't just fight whoever they want. AJ fight your Mando's in 2020 then we have a complete unification with the winner of Fury/Wilder 3 and whoever has the other 3 belts at that point.

[P4Pdunny]

Warren is such a hypocrite

[Combat Talk Radio]

Unifications trump mandatories.

Not with the IBF

Exactly. It's all about the orgs and what they want to do. Which is why I said a lot of money will have to change hands for it to happen. Possible, yes. But VERY difficult.

We don't know how WBC will handle the Whyte situation given how long he's been waiting for a shot, either.

It seemed like it was easier with the other four (WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO) to work towards unification, where WBC has always just been off the side doing its own thing. I was surprised WBC approved Spence/Porter, frankly; probably only because Thurman was injured.

That's why part of me wishes we could go back to the way it used to be where Ring and lineal were the only two that really mattered to determine who "the guy" is. The alphabet orgs make it way too hard for things to happen.

[OldTerry]

Fury lives in Morecambe, Lancashire. He intermittently works in the US since he signed a big deal with ESPN. He is not American. With all the belts held by English fighters, an English fight obviously has appeal. Unless the US offers more money than anywhere else, there is little reason to have the fight in the US, beyond the ESPN tie. Of course, should Fury rematch Wilder, and have another fight before unification, then the ESPN deal will be over.

Wembley stadium in front of 90,000 fans would be the most memorable way to stage it.

Absolutely correct. The driving force behind where a Fury/Joshua fight takes place is the money to be made. The best choice for this fight is obviously the UK. If Fury wins then maybe the best choice (moneywise) for his next fight would be in the USA.

[BigZ44]

Shut up fish eyes, it doesn't mean nearly as much if it's not for the undisputed HW championship of the world