They’ll be a fake injury and a further postponment.
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Deontay Wilder vs Tyson Fury 2 Press Conference tonight 10pm - so go and grad some food & drink and put ya feet up fight fans. It’s gonna be FIRE.
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This’ll be the fight we’re all looking forward to. Not the boxing match itself
Pantomime season never ending here. So boring after all these years that boxing still goes down this route.
Massive bidding war going on between BT & Sky to win the right to broadcast this fight you know. Fury has gigantic balls to fight Wilder unlike Joshua who needs to man up.
You do realise it was Wilder who turned down the £80m to fight Joshua don’t you?
Wilder got his advice from Al which could in the end pay dividends.
But it won’t because he didn’t even earn close to what Hearn was offering him for the Breazeale right.
He turned down £80m and a chance to become undisputed heavyweight champion.
That’s not on AJ.
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Do you reckon AJ could take Wilder?
It’ll be interesting. I don’t think there’d be a “favourite”, per se
I think he obliterates him. Wilder has the equaliser in his power but I don’t think they fight goes on long enough for Wilder to get that opening.
AJ can box, brawl and has power and good speed.
I’ve seen enough of Wilder to know that AJ beats him quite soundly.
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What about Fury v AJ?
Imo it’s an absolute miracle Wilder hasn’t been taken out so far in his career. AJ finishes him and he knows it.
@DavidHillier I actually think AJ does him too. Fury’s chin is there for the taking which has been somewhat hidden in the sand following that 12th round against Wilder.
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It’s a who lands first type of fight. AJ could have him down 6 times or win every round but if Wilder lands its over though.
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Tbf AJs chin is now susceptible after Ruiz.
I always believed AJ to be the best finisher in the division but after not putting Ruiz away in the rematch think a question mark hangs over him now on this.
I personally haven’t read too much into that fight. There was a lot on the line in that fight for AJ though imo. I think he knew a low risk approach against Ruiz’s counters to get the win was the safest bet to protect his status as boxing’s cash cow. A loss would have been simply detrimental.
Ruiz on his side showed that he was either there for the payday in the embarrasing condition he turned up in, or he believed his hype too much from the first victory. The 2 things married together into being a pretty crap fight. That said I think AJ did just do what he had to do.
I agree his chin is susceptible though! Not many of the bigger heavyweights out there right now have heavy chins, which I guess makes it more exciting to ponder these matchups.
He wanted to stick and move against Ruiz because he knew Ruiz gets the better of him in exchanging.
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He didn’t have to. Far safer to get the win on points and not expose himself to Ruiz by trying to knock him out. With that much riding on the line, he did the mature and sensible thing with the tactics he employed imo.
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I think anybody who chooses tk criticise AJ for the Ruiz rematch isn’t being fair on him.
It takes an incredible amount of mental strength it takes to lose convincingly in a big bout and lose everything, and a tonne of credibility to and then to come back and immediately rematch that person and win back the title with a convincing points decision.
AJ’s performance against Ruiz was everything it needed to be. But people wanted him to try and beat the better and quicker inside fighter at his own game.
You only have to watch how AJ fairs against shorter fighters to know he has troubles fighting shorter men on the inside as most big men would.
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AJ-Ruiz series were kind of an obese version of Duran-Leonard series
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