The “Lineal” heavyweight champion of the world is a bit of a cunt.
As I’ve said before, I’ve long been an admirer of Tyson Fury down the years.
His three fights with Deontay Wilder and his dismantling of long reigning Ukrainian cyborg – Wladimir Klitschko (who wasn’t as hard as his older brother I must add) were fantastic.
His slide into personal problems and the resultant ballooning to 30 odd stone in weight, before shedding said weight and recapturing the world championship, was truly inspirational stuff.
However – Tyson Fury – like many a self promoter, has repeatedly told us that he is quite literally the greatest ever. What’s worse is that so many nodding dogs and experts in the media happen to agree with his delusions.
He isn’t one of the greatest ever because he hasn’t been involved at any where near the levels that other past champions have fought at. He has fought a couple of half decent dangerous opponents and that’s about it. Hardly Frazier Foreman and Norton though is it.
It is my perception, that he has repeatedly ducked worthy opponents and has chose to partake in lesser fights against opponents that he thought he could beat easily.
Fair enough, the fella wants to earn a few quid and avoid injury, but his latest escapade last night, an “exhibition” bout against big punching MMA heavyweight champion, one Francis Ngannou in the soulless boxing back water of Saudi fucking Arabia, was a bad joke very nearly gone wrong.
With a unification fight apparently pencilled in against Ukrainian champion Oleksandr Usyk (who was sat looking mortified ringside) for late December – Fury decides to almost embarrass himself, the sport of boxing and ruin any chance of the fight actually happening.
As it is – the dodgy judges made sure that the “correct” result was the obvious outcome, allegedly..
Tyson Fury can’t even be bothered to keep himself in any semblance of shape and his physical appearance last night was akin to an overweight beached whale in a pair of shorts.
Fury is getting older, his punch resistance is waning and his lack of conditioning was always going to catch up with him. Last night it did.
Fair play to the gentleman and athlete that is Francis Ngannou. The fella is two years older than Fury and has never boxed professionally before yet almost, and probably should have, became Lineal heavyweight champion of the boxing world.
He took his (pre determined) defeat in good spirit to be fair to the man.
Fury by comparison – looked depressed afterwards and came out with some of the worst crap imaginable
“Francis was better than we thought he would be”
No fucking shit Tyson!
If this unification fight happens then I’ll be very surprised. Although obviously I hope it does.
Tyson had a 12 week training camp apparently.
Yes 12 weeks of kebabs, beak and Fosters.
PS: I’d genuinely like Fury to start taking the heavyweight championship seriously, get himself back into shape, take on all comers, whup em and prove me wrong.
BBC News
Sorry for the Al Beeb link. I couldn’t be bothered finding another.
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