How lengthy have all of us been ready to see British heavyweight rivals Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua combat each other? Too lengthy, you might effectively say. However the combat WILL nonetheless occur; it has to occur, says High Rank’s Todd DuBoef. And, as we waited for Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao to combat and finally bought it (in what, let’s not neglect, turned out to be one huge borefest of a combat when it lastly got here round), so would be the case with Joshua towards Fury.
So says DuBoef, anyway. Some rivalries take a heck of a very long time to get settled, DuBoef put forth in talking with Sky Sports activities. Joshua and Fury are “like Batman and Robin” in a lot as they “go collectively.” And, DuBoef argues, it doesn’t matter what occurs within the upcoming combat or fights of Joshua and Fury, the 2 males will get it on earlier than they retire.
“I at all times felt that AJ and Tyson would combat sooner or later. In some unspecified time in the future. Win, lose, or no matter,” DuBoef mentioned. “It’s like Batman and Robin. They go collectively. I simply really feel like, sooner or later, they will combat no matter what their physique of labor is, no matter how they arrive out of fights. I feel they each have nice fanbases, they usually each come from an exquisite nation with an exquisite historical past. We’ve had this excellent heavyweight renaissance, the UK being the epicenter of it, so I’ve at all times felt like they’ll combat sooner or later. Mayweather-Pacquiao finally occurred. There have been rivalries for ten years, and finally, they occurred. I simply suppose it is smart at one level.”
It can, after all, be an actual disgrace if Fury and Joshua by no means do combat one another. However we’ve seen ‘should see’ fights fail to occur earlier than, what with Lennox Lewis and Riddick Bowe cicling one another for years solely to by no means combat a professional rematch of their Olympic bout. Some fights, as huge as they’re, do get misplaced to time. I feel DuBoef is improper right here, and Fury and Joshua won’t ever combat. In the event that they have been going to combat, they’d have finished so by now. All of us wished to see Joshua combat Deontay Wilder, however that combat did not occur as Fury beat Wilder after which Joseph Parker. Usyk beats Fury once more of their rematch, for my part, and Fury then walks away.
Fury-Joshua is destined to go the identical manner as Lewis-Bowe. Agree or disagree?
