It’s been a few days now since it was announced that Deontay Wilder had won his arbitration case and Tyson Fury was ordered to fight him by September 15th, and it’s taken me a few days to get my thoughts together on the situation.
Firstly let me start by saying that I, like many have no interest in seeing Fury Wilder 3. Fury for me won the first fight, he was fabulous in the second so a third offering I have little or no appetite for. Secondly, I don’t get the play here from Wilder, is he looking for one last pay day? Does he believe he can do what he failed to do in the first two fights and nail Fury to the canvas? Does he genuinely believe he beats Fury?
I’ll commend Wilder’s bravery if he does get the third fight, but I also will be fuming if we don’t get to see Fury and Joshua for all the belts anytime soon, we’ve been promised a formal announcement for weeks. Fury’s team has let him down and the whole boxing world too. Mr Toad from Wind In The Willows aka Frank Warren and walking skeleton Bob Arum have once again failed to deliver something they promised.
An awful lot of anger was directed towards Wilder on Monday when the story broke, but where is the anger towards Fury, Warren and Arum, if this was a result of Eddie Hearn not doing his due diligence there would be fucking uproar, and more nonsense about Joshua ducking Fury, and I guarantee the word dosser would be trending on Twitter right now. Fury seems to be untouchable in terms of criticism, and I don’t quite get why.
With that being said I don’t believe Tyson is totally to blame for what has happened, I think he’s partly responsible, but you can direct the majority of the blame towards Warren and Arum, something I’m happy to do, and I usually like to slate Hearn at any given opportunity too, but he’s been the driving force of the fight. The face offering fans an update, while it seems like Warren and Arum have done little or nothing to help get this done, maybe they knew the arbitration would go in favour of Wilder, who knows. But this is just another instance in a long line in boxing where we’re robbed of seeing a big fight with two fighters in their prime.
I personally don’t believe any blame can be labelled at Joshua in this case, if you can find any then please feel free to tell me, I’ll happily tell you what a fucking moron you are for doing so, you’ll probably finish your your argument with dosser, or bum which will tell me all I need to know!
I’m more annoyed that we’re probably not going to see this fight in August like we were all lead to believe, the fans have been fucked over again and that’s the worst bit about it, I wonder how many people had already booked flights to Saudi based on Tyson saying it’s on for August the 14th, the people who pay the boxers with their hard earned money have been badly let down.
There was a call for Fury to simply drop the WBC strap. But if he does that then the fight loses just a little sparkle, the green and gold belt not being on the line means it’s not undisputed, do you then go back to the drawing board in terms of splits and revenue, because Fury is then only bringing the Ring Magazine belt. Certainly something to ponder that could potentially push this fight further and further away.
Hopefully there is a resolution available. Hopefully we’ll see the undisputed heavyweight championship fight we’ve all wanted on August 14th. But if we don’t I think Joshua and Usyk is an intriguing, with Usyk’s skill comparable to Fury. I like that fight a whole lot more than I do Fury Wilder 3.
Cheers, The Fat Man.
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