Comments Thread For: Joshua Would Take Less Pay To Stage Fury Fight in UK

[Tails]

Fury and Joshua are both from the UK so I would imagine it should be made there just due to scale of the event and hometown fans.

As much as I would enjoy a megafight of that size being held here in the states it most deservedly belongs in the UK.

[Armchairhero]

American heavyweights are non-existent because American big men have the option to go to football and basketball, two sports which pay infinitely more than boxing and come with a bachelors degree since you have to go through university. Not just the money from contracts but a lot more money from sponsors as well. A 6’4-6’7 athlete in the USA is a forward in basketball and a defensive or offensive end in football. A 6’1-6’3 is a guard in basketball and a myriad of positions in football. All over 200lbs. Mike Tyson was built like an offensive back in football.
British big men really have no other option save maybe rugby but rugby players are not as tall as both American big men sports.
You’ll probably never see American heavyweights at the pre 2000 levels again. Anything that was light heavyweight and up is now in football or basketball, particularly black Americans who are the majority of both sports. Why take a chance at boxing and maybe make a couple of mil at the championship level of you get that far when you can make hundreds of mil in football, basketball, and certainly even baseball which pays better than them all.

Yeh only in America are there other sports, the rest of the world have no options as they don’t play men’s netball or handegg ball....

[TMLT87]

I don’t think you’ll ever see any great American representation in the light heavyweight on up divisions. Anyone 175 and higher is really going to the most popular sports in the USA.

I suppose using this logic everyone below 175 in the rest of the world is going to soccer, no?

[Oldskoolg]

I suppose using this logic everyone below 175 in the rest of the world is going to soccer, no?

Ok let’s speak about this logically as to not feel slighted personally as a think a hand full of you younger more full of piss and vinegar lads are. I’m not talking about the rest of the world, I’m talking about the USA. The USA had a distinct culture that makes it the USA. I have lived in the U.K. and the USA. I cannot speak about the reat of the world. I’m unconcerned about the rest of the world. I can speak about the U.K. and the USA. What I told you is the reality of the situation. If you and a few others just want to argue for the sake of arguing than so be it. Have yourself a great day.

[Oldskoolg]

Lol..... HW boxing is dead in America.

You do understand that Tyson Fury and I are from GM? I’m really not getting your troll attempts but may you love a thousand lives young man.

[Armchairhero]

Do Americans as kids have punch ups?, I’m generally curious as it was part of growing up on our council estates. Can you have punch ups when you all have guns for example...

Our young kids are now soft like you Americans, as they have took to stabbing each other rather than fight it out

[Inspired]

why are the third world americans on here acting like anyone was thinking of them in the context here?
aj vs fury is either in the uk or the middle east.

american HW boxing is dead right now. when wilder was wbc champ and miller was making noise, it had something.
since then even al haymon has let go of yoka and ajagba.

eddie is focusing on the hispanic audience now..i think he realised the blacks over there are broke and not worth promoting.
**** he even let go of anthony sims jr and hunter..and i liked both those guys over the 4ft mexicans and uzbeks he's promoting these days.
murica is dead..eddie can't do **** there..too many broke black people hating all the time and not supporting.

[Kezzer]

Doesn't change he fact that Eddie said he was taking over boxing in America two years ago, and since Joshua had a panic attack in New York and quit against Unranked Andy Ruiz he refuses to go back.

Refuses to go back? What you talking about?

He got his biggest ever payday in His last fight and was always planning to fight back in the uk (well documented before even his us fight) afterwards. I’m sure he will fight again in America but clearly makes sense against an America or more American fan base known name?

Hunter, Ortiz or wilder are the three obvious ones but I doubt either are near the front of the list to be honest with fury or usyk likely next.

[Marchegiano]

It should be in London. I hope there's a lot of pageantry too. Some invoking history and such.

[BodyBagz]

AJ has drawn a line in the sand