Tyson Fury does not expect to face Anthony Joshua in his next fight after Deontay Wilder requested $20m to step aside and allow their bout to go ahead. Fury, 32, agreed to face Joshua, 31, in a highly-anticipated fight in August. But Wilder's team forced an arbitration hearing which concluded he had a contractual right to face Fury for a third time and by 15 September. Fury said Wilder "asked for $20m (£14m) to move over", and added: "Looks like I will have to crack his skull again."
Josh Taylor's fighting Jose Ramirez on Saturday for the WBC, WBA, IBF and WBO light-welterweight titles in Las Vegas. No UK channel has picked it up. The rest of the bill doesn't look that great, admittedly: https://boxrec.com/en/event/829276 As for UK bills, there's some **** in a car park on Friday: https://boxrec.com/en/event/831875 Then there's some more **** on Saturday in Coventry on Channel 5: https://boxrec.com/en/event/828901 Eggington's fights are quite watchable, even if a lot of them end with him getting smashed all over the place.
It’s going to have to happen very quickly otherwise Usyk is going to a forced mandatory on Joshua, they’ve set a 48 hr deadline I think.
It’s going to end with Wilder getting a deal to fight the winner for all the belts in a payday that’s bigger than he’ll ever deserve.
It’s not looking that way unless something changes really quickly. The WBO have Usyk as the next mandatory for their belt anyway, so that’d mean the winner would be stripped of that title if Wilder was given that carrot, and it’d no longer be a unified championship fight. It’s a mess and the Fury camp have ****ed this clean up, they should have paid off Wilder before they did the deal, as they knew he had a rematch clause, which the courts have now enforced.
Fury won’t lose unless he gets screwed by the judges. I think the fight should have been in the U.K. like, no need for him to fight Wilder in the US again other than Bob Arum. Joshua will probably have too much for Usyk like but that’s the fight I’d expect to be closer out of the two.
This should be ****. 1pm card start is different for anything that you can get coverage of over here, though.
I hope he lives to see how much money he's made out of letting an ex world champion beat the **** out of him. I suspect many of the viewers will be disappointed if he does, as that's probably what most watching will want to see.
