Promoter Eddie Hearn says he’s able to make a combat between the dethroned WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua subsequent if the Gypsy King doesn’t combat a rematch with undisputed champion Oleksandr Usyk.
Fury’s Fork within the Street: Humiliation or Extra Humiliation?
It’s a cultured transfer on Hearn’s half, tossing a bone to down and out Fury in his hour of want along with his profession on the lowest level after what Usyk did to him final weekend. It’s a troublesome choice for Fury.
He can take the sort provide by Hearn and get humiliated by Joshua in a possible knockout loss or face Usyk in a rematch and get humiliated by him. I see it as a easy alternative. Take the combat that may pay essentially the most, and that’s clearly the Joshua match.
If Fury lets his pleasure rule his actions, he’ll decline Hearn’s provide, combat Usyk, and lose once more. As soon as Fury loses that combat, the choice for the Joshua payday is probably going gone perpetually.
What we noticed final Saturday evening and in Fury’s earlier match towards Francis Ngannou is that he’s an outdated man now, light and washed, weak to virtually anyone within the division.
Hearn’s Motives: Savior or Opportunist?
It’s exhausting to know what Hearn’s motives are with this affair. Does he really feel sorry for Fury and care about his well-being, or is he trying to benefit from him being shot to bits and a simple goal for Joshua to evaporate with one in every of his right-hand bombs?
Joshua could make some huge cash preventing Fury proper now, nevertheless it gained’t be there if he faces Usyk once more and loses.
Fury (34-1-1, 24 KOs) might want to resolve rapidly if he desires to take the combat with Joshua whereas it’s nonetheless on the desk for him.
The Gypsy King Fury has a rematch clause for a second conflict with Usyk if he chooses to make use of it, which could not be the wisest transfer after his humiliation final Saturday evening in his 12-round cut up choice defeat in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hearn appears to be throwing a lifeline to the 35-year-old Fury by giving him a face-saving excuse to not take the rematch with Usyk (22-0, 14 KOs) by providing him an opportunity to combat Joshua.
“He’s able to combat anyone. He’d like to combat Oleksandr Usyk once more, he’d like to combat Tyson Fury, blissful to combat Filip Hrgovic, Daniel Dubois, Joseph Parker, Deontay Wilder. Anyone who desires it will possibly get it,” stated Eddie Hearn to Matchroom Boxing on Anthony Joshua being able to combat Tyson Fury subsequent if the rematch with Oleksandr Usyk doesn’t occur.
