Fans are the victims but Wilder shouldn’t be blamed for taking Fury chance
What a mess, and once more the fans are the victims.
The fight they wanted between Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua has been stolen from them by lawyers and inept management.
It beggars belief that the parties were talking about a Fury/Joshua fight in Saudi Arabia when Deontay Wilder ’s legal pursuit of Fury was in the works.
It’s bizarre that Fury should complain about a lack of movement in the talks with Joshua when he had this hanging over him.
No one told the fans that there was any issue. They thought the delay was all about terms and conditions between Fury and fellow Brit Joshua.
This is a huge negative for Fury, who was always the target for Wilder.
And you can’t blame Wilder. Who knows what the next 12 months will look like? Travel restrictions and lockdown could be back in play at the drop of a new Covid variant.
There are just too many imponderables for Wilder to let this opportunity slide.
This is not a vendetta on his part. This is business. We have a contract. Let’s go.
No fighter wants to take step-aside money. You’re a prize fighter. You want to earn your money and your reputation in the ring. How Fury (left) responds to this whole farrago is the question? His people engaged in a mediation process in order not to face Wilder. Now he has to.
He is going to Las Vegas in July under sufferance as it were, ordered by a judge to fight an opponent he thought he had left far behind.
Fury does not take well to abiding by the will of others. That might annoy and frustrate him.
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He was so much on the top of his game in that second fight that he gave Wilder no chance. In the first he gave Wilder a window and by some miracle he survived.
Wilder has changed trainers. He is now working with Malik Scott. Having watched them on the pads, I don’t see a significant change technically.
The question is can he respond to what was a traumatic battering? He was overwhelmed in that second fight after being on the edge of victory in the first.
But he goes into the third buoyed by a legal win that might just give him the momentum he needs to pull off a famous victory. I wouldn’t bet against it. Wilder, more than anyone, can still end a fight with one punch.
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