Emerging From The Surreal Pandemic: Boxing 2021 And Beyond

By Donn K Harris - 08/15/2021 - Comments

Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury, Deontay Wilder and the Psychology of The Virtual Void – Analysis by Donn K. Harris

VIRTUAL VISUALS

Had you been watching pandemic boxing matches in makeshift rings set up in parking lots, shoved between the walls of two non-descript buildings with 20 people in attendance? Or in what looks like a spare conference room in a radio station’s under-utilized office building? These fights looked like those old computerized simulation fights: robotic, in a vacuum, with weird artificial lighting that is like nothing ever seen in the real world, and in fights with that isolating ambience the KOs seemed to come quicker, as if without a crowd the hurt fighter had no will to get up. Last November the normally durable welterweight Kell Brook simply collapsed against Terrence Crawford in the 4^th Round after winning the first three; super-middleweight Edgar Berlanga was chasing opponents around the ring as they ran to escape the 1^st round, and they failed 16 times before someone finally survived; the awful Daniel Dubois-Joe Joyce heavyweight fight looked more like an experiment in Artificial Intelligence than real boxers in competition.

In December 2020, heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua, whose ability, desire, heart and toughness are the subject of conjecture and controversy, rendered mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev useless and finally knocked him out in the 9^th round of their passionless fight – did the Bulgarian even land a solid punch? It looked like a fight on a Hollywood sound stage, and Pulev seemed awestruck. Pulev’s promoter, the ancient Bob Arum, insisted that Pulev would easily knock out Joshua and once-and-for-all expose the popular champ for the pretender he is. Joshua is an easy target: handsome, poised, presenting as a model citizen – his baffling and overwhelming knockout loss in June 2019 to Andy Ruiz Jr. makes challengers salivate.

Emerging From The Surreal Pandemic: Boxing 2021 And Beyond

CLASS, CHARACTER AND LACK THEREOF

But Anthony Joshua has shown himself to be a class act. The night he lost to Andy Ruiz Jr. in 2019 at Madison Square Garden, clearly something was wrong: an illness, a psychological trauma in another part of his life, an allergic reaction, a problem with his young child …….. something. But not a word sounding like an excuse came from Joshua. He said: ‘I lost. Congratulations to Andy and his team. I’m going back to the gym to prepare for the rematch.’ Quietly, without cameras or fanfare, the boxer went into a spiritual shell, worked on his game, emerged to do the fight promos, endured the gloating of Ruiz, the derisive analysis by his rivals, his own promoter’s description of the defeat as humiliating. There was a Sylvester Stallone film (One Night) that had celebrities commenting on his public destruction ……. and on rematch fight night he walked into the Saudi arena as the challenger, endured the endless intros, and then dominated Ruiz for 11 of the 12 rounds – technically, defensively, at distance. Offering only a few offensive flurries, stopping the overweight and lethargic Ruiz at every turn with a steady jab and the right amount of movement, Joshua regained his championship belts. Yes, he is vulnerable, and yes, wild man Tyson Fury may very well mash AJ into a pureed puddle when they finally meet. In this case, however, Joshua unfolded a new strategic mentality that may serve him well in the future.

And what’s more: the man showed dignity and character. I watch boxing for that, as do many. But I’m still waiting for the real story behind that night in Madison Square Garden. I believe there’s something we don’t know. Anthony Joshua looked haunted from the moment we saw him on camera, distracted and troubled at the very least. His clinical victory over Ruiz in the rematch, called a Master Class by promoter Eddie Hearn (not sure that’s a good description from a promotional point-of-view), carried that new vulnerability; large unanswered questions remain.

Contrast Joshua’s display of character with the ravings of former champion Deontay Wilder after Tyson Fury dismantled him in their second fight: Wilder claims he drank spiked water, his long-time trainer was a traitor, the armored costume he wore when entering was too heavy and drained his energy, a conspiracy of officials showed leniency with Fury’s hand-wrap and glove-lacing and this allowed Fury to maneuver his hands to an illegal advantage ….. in one memorable interview Wilder invoked Biblical prophecy, told us that he was the anointed one and had been guided from a very young age by his grandmother toward his own divine greatness, and that his enemies would connive and bedevil to deny his ascent to the throne. It seemed that Wilder had been studying Samuel L. Jackson’s Ezekiel 25:17 monologue from Pulp Fiction for inflection and emphasis, perhaps preparing for his next career as a preacher or motivational speaker. It did him no good as a prize fighter.

Emerging From The Surreal Pandemic: Boxing 2021 And Beyond

In prior writings I have praised Wilder as a man of goodwill and authentic spirituality. His love and devotion to his daughter born with spina bifida; the consistent attention to his family and community; the graciousness he showed tough opponent Luis Ortiz, to whom he gave a second fight, helping the Cuban with a payday for his own daughter’s medical issues, despite the real risk Ortiz presented in the ring; his prior respect for Tyson Fury before and after their first fight draw …. I take none of that back. These were his actions and I admired them and credit him. Defeat may have rewired him; someone may have gotten into his soul (Don King?) and planted the seeds of conspiracy and blame; or he may need this as an injection of confidence. ‘I’m so good they have to cheat to beat me,’ Wilder insists. The fight didn’t require an infusion of this circus-like foolishness, and certainly not at the cost to Wilder’s own reputation and legacy. Fury refused a third fight back in December 2020 and claims that Wilder’s team missed a contract deadline. With all the speculation leaning toward a Fury-Joshua two-fight battle to begin this summer, Wilder prevailed in court, and Fury-Wilder III, after a delay when Fury tested positive for COVID-19, will be held in Las Vegas in October. Joshua will fight former Undisputed Cruiserweight Champion and #1 WBO contender Olexandr Usyk on September 25 in London.

Deontay Wilder seems to be the current winner in this juvenile drama. Despite his histrionics and unfounded accusations, he forced Fury into a third fight. Interestingly, Wilder’s defeat, while complete and at times frightening, escaped the humiliating label that was put on Joshua’s loss to Andy Ruiz. Ruiz is not Fury – that may be part of it. But Wilder looked as addled, as helpless and even more dominated than Joshua; bleeding from ear and mouth, stumbling around on colt-like legs, bullied by the aggressive, massive presence of the otherworldly Tyson Fury, who in Round 6 actually licked blood and sweat from Wilder’s shoulder with a darting, flicking, almost Satanic tongue action that defies any human explanation …….. still, most observers and analysts would have said at the time that Joshua’s was the more personally damaging defeat. I don’t exactly disagree, although explaining it is difficult. Wilder seems crazy now, Joshua honorable but ………. soft? Is it that Joshua fell from a more exalted place? That Wilder was seen as a gritty Alabaman for whom getting whupped was less of a comeuppance?

Emerging From The Surreal Pandemic: Boxing 2021 And Beyond

Joshua’s defeat of Pulev was a step toward a new style that holds some power and presence, but the Bulgarian was wooden and showed no sign of being able to hurt Joshua. Tyson Fury would still be a huge favorite against his fellow Brit, as Joshua’s main weapon – a crushing right hand – is considered less lethal than the Deontay Wilder punch that floored Fury in their first fight, and from which Fury rose, steadied himself, and fought to the end of the fight and the strangely satisfying draw.

In that fight, most everyone, myself included, believes Fury outpointed Wilder. I scored it 9-3 in rounds, 115-111 in points, giving Wilder only rounds 2, 9 and 12. And in Round 12, after getting up from the 1-2 punch that would have sent any other human being on this planet into a coma, with more than a minute to go Fury seemed to win the remainder of the round. The knockdown still gives the round 10-8 to Wilder to create the draw, but Fury’s rise has evoked Biblical references to Lazarus and the Resurrection.

In the second fight, Fury’s dominance was apparent from the opening bell. Word is that Wilder looks fantastic in the gym under friend and new trainer Malik Scott, and that he has diversified his arsenal, but Wilder’s unhinged response to his loss does not inspire confidence. If boxing had a conduct-unbecoming clause in its contracts, Fury would not have to fight Wilder again. Fury could have personally refused the fight based on Wilder’s defamation of his character, citing the loss of endorsements and future earning power he suffered because of Wilder’s reckless and malicious accusations, and possibly gotten a court to listen to a legitimate argument about a third fight’s effect on his economic future.

In any event, be on the alert for something strange to happen in Fury-Wilder III – a weird foul, a controversial call, a long or short count on a knockdown, a clock or mechanical malfunction, bad rule interpretation, a crowd disruption, divine intervention …….. Wilder, in the extended period following the second fight, has become the Zab Judah of this era. The referee should get a combat pay stipend, as there may be extreme corner activity, loud and physical fan reactions, and possibly an attempt to avenge the wipeout and alleged foul play from the second fight, and that would include resentment on the part of Fury fans for Wilder’s accusations of conspiratorial shenanigans against their fighter. My prediction: Unanimous decision for Fury, with one round in which Wilder almost puts Fury away but falls short, and a rule controversy that Wilder spouts for the rest of his life.

VIRTUAL VIOLENCE

In retrospect, pandemic boxing in a vacuum was weird and less than fully satisfying. It may play into some of what Anthony Joshua needs in the future – less distraction and a reduction in immediate scrutiny. He seemed comfortable and confident as he walked into the empty sound stage for the Pulev fight. Can his team temper the raucous environment now that crowds will be returning? Is Anthony Joshua that fragile?

Emerging From The Surreal Pandemic: Boxing 2021 And Beyond

These pandemic fights gave us camera angles that were shot way too close, probably designed to minimize the look of emptiness and the echo of the parking lots and maintenance shafts that served as venues; again, they looked like the old computer-simulated “fights.” I remember seeing “Ali” and “Marciano” go after it in virtual space with “Ali” declared the winner. It didn’t matter: the simulations give you no sense of who was physically dominant, who was beginning to crumble, where the ebb and flow was taking the fighters. There was a similar lack of flow in the pandemic flights. Perhaps with a full arena the crowd amplifies the action for us, and we’re a little flat without it. The commentators often came off as near-hysterical doing pandemic fights, over-compensating for an incomplete product.

Tyson Fury continues to spew engaging nonsense, although it is clear his disdain for Joshua is real. I don’t see him as resentful of the public adulation heaped on Joshua, which would be an obvious motivation. There is nothing obvious about the emotional world of Tyson Fury. When the determined Swede Otto Wallin, giving Fury a surprising challenge and opening up a cut above Fury’s eye, smudged the injury and the eye with the thumb of his glove mid-fight as the referee was separating them, Fury said nothing, and at the end of the fight praised Wallin and offered condolences for the Swede’s recently departed father. Fury wants to see fire in people, does not understand a measured approach to anything, let alone the fight game.

Before their championship fight in Germany, when Fury was a challenger, a heavy underdog in the champion’s home country at the time, he ridiculed Vladimir Klitschko, heavyweight champ for a decade at that point, as boring and a detriment to boxing, promising to rid the sport of Vladimir and his similarly buttoned-down older brother Vitali. Fury puts Anthony Joshua in that category – photogenic, but too measured and careful, devoid of personality or individuality, and for that reason not championship-worthy, despite their previous accomplishments.

Hopefully we’ll get to see Fury-Joshua in 2022 to make some sense out of the uneven heavyweight division. There are many obstacles to clarity besides Deontay Wilder – the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk is lightning fast and tricky, and could possibly confound the sometimes unimaginative Joshua. There is also Dillian Whyte, demanding of a title shot, erratic and dangerous; a few unknowns and head-scratchers with pieces of belts: Mahmoud Charr (champ in recess), Trevor Bryan (regular), the massive Finn Robert Helenius (something called a Golden Belt), an interim championship tag inexplicably given to Daniel DuBois, last seen taking a 10-count, blinking frantically as he knelt in the center of the ring and suffered his first loss at the hands of Joe Joyce, whose rise to prominence is baffling. Slow, plodding, standing straight up to make an enticing 6’5” target, Joyce’s best asset appears to be his chin, never a good sign.

Emerging From The Surreal Pandemic: Boxing 2021 And Beyond

THE ERRATIC PSYCHOLOGY OF THE VOID

Still, the key factor in the near-future of the heavyweight division is the psychological shadow cast by or on or within Anthony Joshua. He seems vulnerable, both physically and psychically; we saw him decompensate the night in New York when a single third round punch concussed him and left him in a daze that Andy Ruiz ultimately exploited.

Joshua is thoughtful, polite and empathetic. When asked about Jerrell “Big Baby” Miller after the Brooklynite – just before his fight with Joshua – tested positive for three different steroids, Joshua said: ‘You don’t kick a man when he’s down.’

“Big Baby” was about to take that illegally-pumped-up body into the ring against Joshua, with the potential of causing life-altering physical damage. In the pre-fight build-up, Miller trash-talked Joshua in profane and demeaning ways, made weird innuendoes about Joshua’s mother, and he shoved the champion hard during the traditional face-off. Joshua should have walked out the way Oscar de la Hoya did when the Nicaraguan Ricardo Mayorga let loose with a tirade against Mexicans and made a crude comment about Oscar’s wife. The proud Mexican fighter stood, signaled his entourage, and said to the shocked Mayorga as he departed, in Spanish: You went too far now. You insulted the two things (dos cosas!) most important to me: my country and my wife. I’m going to knock you out. And two nights later he did, spectacularly, and resisted the temptation to stand over the fallen loser, gloating.

But none of this is Anthony Joshua. Through it all, Joshua did not disparage “Big Baby” publicly even after the disgraced blowhard was pulled from the fight. Is that restraint, class, or too much respect for a vile operator who was ready to cheat you out of your hard-earned championships, possibly cripple you for life, and insinuated ugly things about your mother?

That’s the fight ultimately won by Andy Ruiz, who had called Eddie Hearn after Miller’s removal and said, ‘I’m your man.’ He was, and Andy Ruiz became immortal that night. We’re fortunate it wasn’t “Big Baby” Miller; boxing has enough baggage to overcome. I was born in Brooklyn; the man doesn’t represent anything I want to endorse.

Boxing has many glaring flaws: too many champions, many unworthy, with “interim” and “franchise” titles adding more confusion; inexplicable scoring differences within the same bout; and promoter-driven matches that take years to develop. There are also more than a few truly unlikeable characters, historical and current – Jarrell “Big Baby” Miller, the 310-pound loudmouth, his Brooklyn faux-tough guy bravado hiding a chemically-infused coward; Antonio Margarito and his Plaster of Paris glove inserts, used in an unknown number of fights before he was caught; the imploding end to the sad career of bitter British heavyweight David Price. But then it has compelling stories like Tyson Fury’s transformation from suicidal depression to mentally tough world champion; Andy Ruiz’ unlikely ascension to the throne, and his quick return to the court jester role; the current lightweight quintet of Teofimo Lopez, Vasily Lomachenko, Devon Haney, Ryan Garcia and Gervonta Davis promising years of fascinating bouts and personal, very public growth from boys into men with their fathers playing large roles, Floyd Mayweather filling that role capably for Gervonta Davis, whose personal – along with pugilistic – growth under Mayweather’s tutelage is unmistakable; Daniel “Miracle Man” Jacobs’ recovery from cancer and the fatherhood he displays interacting with his son in the ring at the end of his fights:

C’mon Nate, we’re going to tell Triple G, good fight.

He won, huh, Dad?

Yes, he did. But we fought good too. You always say, good fight.

………… and through it all, the most fascinating question in the sport remains:

Is Anthony Joshua too cerebral and mannered to beat Tyson Fury, the shark who tastes human blood recreationally, whose heat-seeking sonar zeroes in on the hidden recesses in his opponents’ psyches?

Emerging From The Surreal Pandemic: Boxing 2021 And Beyond

BACK TO THE FUTURE

Crowds have returned and fighters no longer need to master the strange world of near-silence and echoing emptiness and lighting experiments in the void. The pandemic gave us a world where Joshua vs. Pulev didn’t seem any less skilled or dramatic than virtual Ali vs. Marciano. Let’s hope no one has the idea to produce George Foreman 1973 vs. George Foreman 1990, or Joe Frazier vs. Mike Tyson. Some things were never meant to happen, fights without crowds and avatar boxing among them. Now Spence-Crawford, Fury-Joshua, Haney-Lopez, Beterbiev or Benavidez-Canelo, Gervonta Davis-Ryan Garcia, Inoue-Donaire 2 ……… that’s the way to emerge from the void. There are seven phenomenal fights here – how many will see their way to the ring by summer 2023? These should be our measuring sticks telling us about the health of the sport.

The talent is prodigious, the characters compelling. The promoters need to think about legacy first, then dollars, as there’s enough of the latter to keep everyone in steak and champagne; the sanctioning bodies need to create legitimate rankings and the State Commissions professionalize the stable of judges, as they have with the excellent referees at the top level; there needs to be a standard contract clause that curbs the outrageous slander of a Deontay Wilder, whose ravings hurt the sport. The Gypsy King should have considered the defamation angle, maybe shut up Adrien Broner too as a side benefit.

The pandemic is under enough control to bring back mega-events. The strengths and flaws of the sport are clear, and a time of greatness may be upon us if the latter can be addressed. But the last few steps from very good to great are always the most difficult, and coming out of the pandemic is both added fuel and added baggage. It’s up in the air which is the stronger force, and how far the sport’s current leadership can take this fascinating wave of athletic talent and human drama.

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54 thoughts on “Emerging From The Surreal Pandemic: Boxing 2021 And Beyond”

Anonymous

08/25/2021 at 5:14 am

Deontay Wilder is royalty in boxing. Teddy atlas, Larry merchant, they’re jealous of Deontay Wilders singularity unique charismatic athletic superstars style.
Anonymous

08/25/2021 at 5:09 am

All of you pandering sycaphants quit covering for this cowardly, incompetent phoney baloney belt holder. Both fury and Anthony Joshua.
Anonymous

08/25/2021 at 5:06 am

Get onto the ring or pay compensation on October 9 the.
Anonymous

08/25/2021 at 5:03 am

Scared is what you are. Anthony Joshua, fury, Whyte, scared of losing, fear of failure.
Anonymous

08/25/2021 at 5:01 am

Deontay Wilder is so intimidating none of the belt holders will dare enter the ring with him. Deontay Wilder has to sue them and they still run like roaches.
Anonymous

08/25/2021 at 4:58 am

Anthony Joshua did not offer Deontay Wilder a 150 million dollar contract. It was a multiple contact offer. First of all he had to sign with Eddie Hearn, then he’d have to fight Dillian Whyte first then another z then maybe fight Anthony Joshua. These Winnie’s aren’t going to honor their contracts.
Anonymous

08/25/2021 at 4:54 am

Force these phoney baloney belt holders to fight Deontay Wilder now
Anonymous

08/25/2021 at 4:52 am

What’s going to be your excuse now?
Anonymous

08/25/2021 at 4:51 am

Phoney baloney belt holder fury cheated in both cases. By not holding Deontay Wilders opponent accountable for the fight delay year title defense limit you all have pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit fraud.
Anonymous

08/22/2021 at 8:17 am

Big baby Miller was savaged and villanised . When he failed his drug test , it effected his career ,, when Dillian Whyte and fury fail their tests the whole issue is glossed over and swept under the carpet . They’re given a post fight medical exemption form by a doctor’s post dated prescription for low testosterone levels talking about , ” I have erectile disfunction .”
Anonymous

08/22/2021 at 7:49 am

Don k Harris is from the city so he probably know boxing well . Some of those guys very much impress me when they watch a fight they see things I couldn’t see . New York is known for people that ” didn’t see anything ” , you could be lying dead in the street and they’ll step right over you and keep on walking . Doesn’t bother them a bit .
Don , ” is from New York , don didn’t see a thing , don doesn’t know what you’re talking about , hey forgot about it . ”
Badda be badda boom !
Anonymous

08/22/2021 at 3:31 am

This guy fury is swinging away bare knuckle with metal loaded gloves .
Anonymous

08/22/2021 at 3:29 am

Most of you fans have seen it too but you pretend ignorance when you aught to be angry .
Anonymous

08/22/2021 at 3:25 am

These wanna be journalist remove expulsitory
evidence from the boxing fans in the form of photos and videos instead of investigating reporting .
Does anybody want to see a photo of an eggweight in the left glove of Tyson in the second fight when fury supposedly manhandled Deontay Wilder ?
I have access to it .
- Anonymous
  
  08/22/2021 at 3:27 am
  
  And so do virtually all of these journalist and reporters except they hide them from you .
Anonymous

08/22/2021 at 12:46 am

All of that media hype is a smokescreen . Slim is what fury is , those old pictures on utube are the same old crap stories fury is known for . He has been training for over a year , back to back training camps .
And he still doesn’t make the grade .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 9:50 pm

Ha ha ha ha ha
- Anonymous
  
  08/21/2021 at 11:50 pm
  
  Yes Tyson Fury is the fake champion and Deontay Wilder is the people’s champion .
- Anonymous
  
  08/21/2021 at 11:51 pm
  
  Amen
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 9:46 pm

Deontay Wilder won both fights against fury . What you talking about ? And all of you boxing fans , you want a phony champion ? Then you must want fury to cheat again and you would be okay with that .
To thyn own self be true , one you start lying to yourself you never really will have know where you stand .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 9:00 pm

Act like none of you saw the loaded gloves padding removal and flopping around all over the place .
” Oh Jes , I have to go with fury because he really manhandled Deontay Wilder .”
Horse Dunn , bribed judges , referee’s , spiked water , holding , neck wrenching, tripping , rabbit punching , shutting off the camera and no investigation .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 7:06 pm

Donn k Harris wants to keep his job , that is why he pretends he can’t see .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 7:04 pm

Everybody wants to see the trilogy between Deontay Wilder vs fury .
This fury is the intruder , if he dares to enter the ring with Deontay Wilder , and if he doesn’t , he will pay with his assets , he will be the dirtiest fighter ever . Count on inside cooperation , same as last time . Steroids , cocaine , crank , and every dirty tactic in the book . Even new levels of treachery . Why? Because fury can’t fight , he is slow.,. pillow fisted , glass jawed and plagued with a bunch of injuries .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 4:54 pm

All the trash talk Dillian Whyte has done , I hope he gets a fight with Deontay Wilder , if he shows up he’ll get a well deserved thrashing .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 4:52 pm

If fury wouldn’t have loaded gloves , he wouldn’t have to be running like Usain bolt run cockroach run .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 4:50 pm

Just think about all that time and money the Nazi propaganda machine lost and wasted pretending to fight a j and running from Deontay Wilder . And let’s not forget all the payola to utubers and the cost of airtime , the main stream Media talking trash about Deontay Wilder. Excuses , excuses , excuses , get into the ring and get it over with fury .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 4:44 pm

It was because of me that Max ( blind as a bat ) Kellermen lost his job and got fired .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 5:56 am

Will fury do as Max Shmelling did and face his better opponent in the middle of the ring , man to man , fair and square and take his well deserved ass whooping ?
Will the Nazi propaganda machine be able to salvage what little credibility they have left by once again cowardly pulling out from the Deontay Wilder fight ?
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 5:45 am

Will Deontay Wilder , a Canastonia New York international boxing Hall of famer 10 title defense in five years , who plays piano in his father’s church choir defeat the villainous fury who was banned from boxing in the UK my the British boxing board of control forever for cheating tactics again and again and again ?
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 5:33 am

Will Deontay Wilder be able to do what joe lewis did against max Shmelling and singlehandedly crush the Nazi propaganda machine with a crushing final blow that changed the course of history and ushered in a new era of industry and prosperity for the United States Of America ?
Tick tock, tick tock only time will tell .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 5:27 am

And the rest is his-story .
Will the Hitler sympathizing Nazi propaganda machine be allowed to continue it’s antisemitism ?
Can the allies hold back the skewed media misinformation propaganda machine ?
Will freedom reign from sea to shining sea ?
Will Deontay Wilder succeed in his representation of truth , justice and the American way ?
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 5:14 am

The skin head Nazi gesture salute in the post second Deontay Wilder fight interview by fury was the precursor to the release of the famous portrait of a plantation owner during humiliation of a,” black Buck ” picturing the public licking of blood from the neck of a slave during torture . The photos of fury’s loaded gloves flooded the internet leaving no doubt that both fights between Deontay Wilder and fury were fixed fights obviously overtly audatiously conclusively .
Anonymous

08/21/2021 at 4:53 am

Six weeks till the Deontay Wilder vs Tyson chicken trilogy and fury has decided that he should begin training because two years ago he signed up for the fight and he hasn’t had enough time to prepare for a bum .
Anonymous

08/20/2021 at 4:58 am

You could always bet against your self , fury , Deontay Wilder hits you once and you’ll fall over knocked out . In that way you may retire healthy , wealthy and alive .
Anonymous

08/20/2021 at 4:51 am

Deontay Wilder is probably going to target the reopening of unhealed delicate tissue of the eye . Let’s not forget the cancerous tumor on your liver . Eye , liver eye., liver , over and over again until fury is a slouched over bloody mess .
Anonymous

08/20/2021 at 4:45 am

As much as christians want to go to heaven to be seated next to Jesus as the preachers say , fury wants to live . So he will force Deontay Wilder to sue again and be stripped of the belt again and beg for mercy from the court when Deontay Wilders legal team go after damages .
Anonymous

08/20/2021 at 4:36 am

There’s nothing fury can do except step into the ring and get clobbered . The skills set of Deontay Wilder was always far superior to his opponent , the pillow fisted , glass jawed eastern block refuge .
Anonymous

08/20/2021 at 4:21 am

The two years of back to back training camps haven’t been enough , perhaps fury should postpone the trilogy for another year or so .
Anonymous

08/20/2021 at 4:18 am

Deontay Wilder has not been able to receive equal protection and treatment within the law . Loudmouth fury is spouting out at the mouth , crowing from the rooftops about an early knock out of Deontay Wilder . How is he going to do that without loaded gloves ?
Anonymous

08/19/2021 at 7:11 pm

What will happen when fury pulls out of the fight again ?
Is Dillian Whyte prepared for a first round knockout ?
Anonymous

08/19/2021 at 7:09 pm

If the photos shoe foreign objects in the loaded gloves again , will there be an investigation ?
Will fury be allowed to fight bare knuckle again ?
Anonymous

08/19/2021 at 7:03 pm

I saw an interview with fury and he said that his child is fine and he will be at the fight .
Do you think that fury is lying again ?
Will fury come up with another excuse again ?
Will fury be allowed to fight with out passing the drug test again ?
Will fury be randomly tested for performance enhancing drugs ?
Will Mark Brealand have the nerve to show up at ring side ?
Anonymous

08/19/2021 at 4:41 am

What’s your next excuse ? Master of excuses
Anonymous

08/19/2021 at 2:57 am

American fighters are the best now . This can change because of young developing talent worldwide . All of the belts belong here , run if you want cockroach ,. It none of you can hide anywhere in the world .
Anonymous

08/18/2021 at 8:19 pm

The bible talks about people who have eyes and cannot see . You’re brain won’t let you see . You’re sick , calcified pineal gland .
Anonymous

08/18/2021 at 7:34 pm

Brian London and sir Henry Cooper brought honor to the UK . Instead of the chegrim loss of face and humiliation of this fury .
Anonymous

08/18/2021 at 7:20 pm

The European media is shamefully supporting fury’s fakery , it’s so unlike the glorious unpresentable historical legacy linked to the united kingdom . The whole affair stains the impeccable honor of the esteemed hard earned British spotless integrity .
Anonymous

08/18/2021 at 7:14 pm

What a national treasure Deontay Wilder is . Undervalued like no other . Thank God for blessing the United States Of America with this unparalleled and peerless athlete .
Anonymous

08/18/2021 at 7:10 pm

Deontay Wilder barely weighs the bare minimum to qualify as a heavyweight and vertically all of the manufactured champions are afraid of fighting Deontay Wilder .
Anonymous

08/16/2021 at 8:01 pm

Deontay Wilder is clearly the classier fighter . Deontay Wilder has more courage , fury won’t fight Luis Ortiz neither will Anthony Joshua
Anonymous

08/16/2021 at 7:58 pm

Donn Harris blows boxing but he will lose his job if he doesn’t do what he is told , and received a bonus for.trashing Deontay Wilder .
Anonymous

08/16/2021 at 7:55 pm

Deontay Wilder is the best heavyweight champion that ever lived without question .
Anonymous

08/16/2021 at 5:03 pm

Anthony Joshua wants to fight Deontay Wilder as soon as possible .
- Anonymous
  
  08/24/2021 at 10:22 pm
  
  Everyone knows Tyson cheated in both cases.

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