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Sam Jones has SLAMMED internet trolls who predicted “baby” Daniel Dubois would KO his client Joe Joyce. Ranting to Queensberry Promotions ‘Lockdown Lowdown’, the Derby man fumed: “Joe has beaten Majidov, Tony Yoka, Frazer Clarke, Filip Hrgovic. He’s done all of them in the amateurs.
For Tyson Fury co-trainer Andy Lee, the WBC heavyweight champion can go down as one of the greatest fighters who ever laced up a pair of gloves in the sport’s glamour division. Lee believes Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs), who is coming fresh off a resounding victory over Deontay Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) in February, is on a path to surpass some of the best boxers in history.
Eddie Hearn, promoter for IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, says that he wants to enter into a deal with WBC champion Tyson Fury with a clean slate. Right now Fury is contractually obligated to move forward with a trilogy fight against Deontay Wilder.
Tyson Fury added some trash talk while delivering a positive message to his 3.7 million Instagram followers Tuesday. Fury offered details about his daily workouts, explained how that intense training has helped him both physically and mentally during the COVID-19 pandemic and made a prediction for his third fight against Deontay Wilder in a short video posted to his Instagram account.
Bob Arum remains hopeful that the third Tyson Fury-Deontay Wilder fight can happen in November or December. Fury’s co-promoter is a lot less optimistic about Fury-Wilder III taking place in the United States, where their first two fights were held. Arum told BoxingScene.com on Tuesday that their third WBC heavyweight championship match “probably” will be staged outside of the U.S. because COVID-19 restrictions could prevent crowds from attending sporting events there through the end of this year.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury explains that the majority of the sport had written him off, before and after his career-changing victory over Wladimir Klitschko in November of 2015.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, 31-years-old, has vowed to dominate the division in the same manner as Wladimir Klitschko. Fury catapulted his standing in the world scene in November fo 2015, after traveling to Germany to shock Klitschko by way of a twelve round unanimous decision to capture the unified crown.
Top Rank's CEO Bob Arum, who co-promotes WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, has shot down circulating reports that Deontay Wilder revealed that he wants a step-aside fee of $10 million - in order to move away from a contracted trilogy fight. Fury captured the WBC world title in February, when he stopped Wilder in the seventh round at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Bob Arum isn’t the least bit surprised George Foreman reached out to Deontay Wilder after Tyson Fury defeated Wilder in their heavyweight championship rematch. Arum remembers how tough it was for Foreman after Muhammad Ali knocked him out in the eighth round of “The Rumble In the Jungle.” The previously unbeaten knockout artist was a 4-1 favorite to beat Ali in Zaire.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury says he was fully confident of taking down Deontay Wilder after dealing with his feared power for twelve rounds in their December 2018 encounter. The contest, which saw Fury go down twice and nearly stopped in the twelfth, ended in a controversial twelve round split draw.