And here I thought Furocity was a fitness program. It's his energy drink. I'll be damned. That's where it belongs at this point, in the bargain bin. Until he fights Usyk and/or AJ. But 3 pounds per case sounds like a steal.
Proper fucked his brand.
I don't question Wilder's power but I do think those one-punch KOs will be much more difficult to pull off against the most elite and durable fighters in the division. As you said that's been shown historically. Fury was able to survive if only by the skin of his teeth. Yeah, the biggest punchers' KO percentages do drop when fighting the top guys consistently and toward the end of their careers. No puncher, regardless of how ridiculous their power might be, is running the table against elite opponent after elite opponent every time out. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called a puncher's chance it'd be a game of Duck Hunt.
This stuff has already been covered inside the thread over the last week. The 70/30 offer was never genuine. It was designed to be refused. He bluffed. Fury never intended to fight Usyk in the first place and there's a mountain of evidence to support it. We know about the rematch clause as well. Fury did request it, Team Usyk agreed, and then Fury moved the goalposts again demanding that it be removed (allegedly with Warren ultimately convincing Fury to leave it in). If it sounds like a game of musical chairs that's because it was. Fighters that are serious about making big fights happen don't play them. When Fury declined the Saudi's offer, which was guaranteed to be extremely lucrative, it was a big tip-off that he wasn't actually interested in fighting Usyk. Remember, Fury's 70/30 bluff came after the fight was to be moved to the UK where far less money was on the table.
No, that makes no sense. Fury wouldn't have fought Usyk for any amount. Hearn is wrong. If it was just about the money then Fury would've accepted the Saudi's offer. Usyk accepted his offer immediately. Fury turned down what was thought to be the biggest offer ever made in the history of the sport in terms of guaranteed pay (rumored to be around $100 million).
I don't want to ever hear him talk about being a "real fighting man" again. As you said Usyk is half his size and isn't even considered a puncher. It's a very bad look for Fury. King of the Gypsies my ass.
Why would they want to advertise the fact that Usyk beat their marquee fighter consecutively? Plus it's not news. Anyone that follows boxing even casually already knows it. I've also never heard anyone say that Usyk was insanely popular in the UK. More popular since beating Joshua twice, sure, but that's to be expected.
A fighter being two inches shorter and around 30 pounds lighter than advertised here isn't semantics. Fury is a huge guy with skills but so is AJ. He's just not as big or skilled as Fury. It was a long time ago that Cunningham dropped Fury but he's never had the best chin. His recovery is what's special. Added weight can help fighters take punches better but not necessarily. If that fighter never had much of a chin in the first place then it may not help. But, since you mentioned Ruiz as evidence of heavier fighters taking damage better, know that the heavy version of Ruiz was dropped by AJ. That didn't happen to a much lighter Usyk despite going 24 rounds against the same guy.
