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I agree with this article in general
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mo...-for-undisputed-heavyweight-title/ar-AA198Sbd
Fury can't just do what's right and box. He has to try to control things before the outset and make unreasonable demands.
"How much more serious could Usyk have shown himself to be when he accepted the smaller half of a 70-30 revenue split? That's practically unheard of. Go back to 1971 when Muhammad Ali, who in his career was 100 times more popular and well known than Fury will ever be, agreed to a 50-50 split to fight Joe Frazier in New York on March 8, 1971. That remains perhaps the most iconic bout in boxing history, but it wouldn't have happened had Ali made grotesque financial demands."
Indeed. Fury is no Muhammad Ali on a global cultural or societal level. Not even a fraction of the icon that was Ali.
Add to that boxing isn't even the prevailing combat sport in this era, and it's widely known there are plenty of guys walking around who are 5"8 170 Ibs who could take Fury down, break his skinny legs and there's nothing he could do about it. And yet he is acting like he is considered "the baddest man walking the earth".
He needs to take a reality check, check his ego and take these fights rather than taking easy meaningless bouts with his mates like the Chisora 'trilogy'.
Sleeping Fury
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mo...-for-undisputed-heavyweight-title/ar-AA198Sbd
Fury can't just do what's right and box. He has to try to control things before the outset and make unreasonable demands.
"How much more serious could Usyk have shown himself to be when he accepted the smaller half of a 70-30 revenue split? That's practically unheard of. Go back to 1971 when Muhammad Ali, who in his career was 100 times more popular and well known than Fury will ever be, agreed to a 50-50 split to fight Joe Frazier in New York on March 8, 1971. That remains perhaps the most iconic bout in boxing history, but it wouldn't have happened had Ali made grotesque financial demands."
Indeed. Fury is no Muhammad Ali on a global cultural or societal level. Not even a fraction of the icon that was Ali.
Add to that boxing isn't even the prevailing combat sport in this era, and it's widely known there are plenty of guys walking around who are 5"8 170 Ibs who could take Fury down, break his skinny legs and there's nothing he could do about it. And yet he is acting like he is considered "the baddest man walking the earth".
He needs to take a reality check, check his ego and take these fights rather than taking easy meaningless bouts with his mates like the Chisora 'trilogy'.
Sleeping Fury