Comments Thread For: Arum: Fury-Joshua is Biggest Heavyweight Fight Since Ali-Frazier 1

[PeterinMI]

Bob is Over the top

Look, it is a good fight. I agree. On the other hand to call it the biggest heavyweight fight since Ali vs Frazier 1 or even in the last 10 years is just silly talk. Heck, I would argue Fury / Wilder 2 was a bigger fight.

[tonysoprano]

I think it's a bigger fight in the UK or maybe Europe than it is in the States.

I can't believe Bowe/Holy Tyson/Holy or even Tyson/Spinks wasn't a bigger deal than this. Let's face it most US fans couldn't give a **** about 2 UK HW's.

[Max-Power]

It really isn’t aj sucks this fight really won’t be that good

[Bronx2245]

Yes over time Thriller and Manila is probably the biggest fight in combat sports history 'And it was because of pure competition at the highest level, no gimmicks or acting was needed to build the fight'

Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier where fighting for something more than materialistic gain or even World Titles 'I am not even sure that I can put into words exactly what they where fighting for, but it was something primordial'.

I don't think you see that in boxing anymore, or very rarely for a combination of reasons. Fighters at top level are sometimes business men, and everyone wants to give the appearance that they really care about fighters 'It is like people in the sport of boxing are afraid of how far these competitors can push themselves' Fair enough, that is alright it is not a bad thing to care for fighters not at all.

You only have to think back to Wilder vs Fury II, all the people ****ing on as if it was the most brutal gruesome fight in the history of boxing 'Don't you ever dare watch the fight alone if you are new to the sport'.

I don't think Wilder vs Fury II should of been stopped, this week in numerous posts 'I have made this clear'. Sometimes at a certain level in this sport, when to competitors collided 'You just have to let the fight go'.

Because that is what some fighters like Deontay Wilder train for, he may be the most technically gifted 'But he does have that primordial attitude inside, the same thing you saw in both fighters during the Thriller in Manila'.

I assume you meant to say "he may NOT be the most technically gifted..." Wilder's biggest problem was he thought he WAS as big as Muhammad Ali! He thought the African-American community should be rallying around him, like they were for Ali.! That's crazy! His ego overshadowed his talent level, and his activism was nowhere near Muhammad Ali! Wilder, like many others, don't understand their place in history!

For those who give a F...

The Ghost Sport
by Paul Beston

https://www.city-journal.org/html/ghost-sport-13402.html

[archiemoore1]

That statement is disrespectful to guys like Larry Holmes, Mike Tyson, Holyfield, Bowe, Lennox Lewis, Klitschko brothers. Joshua already got rocked before. What has he done since then? Fight scared in a rematch against Andy when Andy was way out of shape, and then beat Kubrat Pulev? Since beating big Klit in 2015, Tyson Fury has whipped Wilder twice, sandwiched between names like Sefer Seferi, Francesco Pianeta, Tom Schwarz and Otto wallin. Who the f..k are these ppl? I like both guys but honestly, they've each fought only a few recognizable name fighters in their entire careers

[Bronx2245]

I think it's a bigger fight in the UK or maybe Europe than it is in the States.

I can't believe Bowe/Holy Tyson/Holy or even Tyson/Spinks wasn't a bigger deal than this. Let's face it most US fans couldn't give a **** about 2 UK HW's.

If Joshua had not been embarrassed in Madison Square Garden, by the fattest man in boxing, they might have!

[tonysoprano]

TBH Arum is probably high, he just says random **** to sell his fights. It wasn't long ago he was saying Loma was the greatest fighter of all time, he seems to have calmed down on that now.

[REDEEMER]

When will people on here learn that life doesn’t revolve around America. Bring the biggest fight in America is a different statement to the biggest fight.

I don’t disagree that Joshua wilder may have been even bigger, but it will do a minimum 2 mil Ppv in the uk, maybe much higher and will be watched significantly across the world.

The fight hasn’t even happened yet but the thread alone shows why it’s going to blow every fight out of the water with everyone talking about it ? The hype and media blitz this is going to receive is going to be crazy . I can tell the majority on here are just delusional. Billions of more people on the planet with global access on current technologies of computers, devices , etc , but the fight with two prime guys won’t be the biggest ?

One day I hope boxing fans get smarter but that’s a big ask.

[Fighter78]

Arum should be tossed straight into hell the second he passes away for comparing a complete BUM like fury to either Ali or Frazier

[Fighter78]

I think it's a bigger fight in the UK or maybe Europe than it is in the States.

I can't believe Bowe/Holy Tyson/Holy or even Tyson/Spinks wasn't a bigger deal than this. Let's face it most US fans couldn't give a **** about 2 UK HW's.

I agree....Tyson fury wont be able to draw flies over here and not enough people over here have seen Anthony Joshua enough to care about him honestly........the fight would do much better over there in weak UK land where in some corner of the peoples deficient brains they actually think Tyson fury is a good fighter.