How lengthy have all of us been ready to see British heavyweight rivals Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua combat each other? Too lengthy, you could 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 ultimately obtained 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 in opposition to 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 all the time felt that AJ and Tyson would combat in some unspecified time in the future. 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, in some unspecified time in the future, they’re going to combat no matter what their physique of labor is, no matter how they arrive out of fights. I feel they each have nice fanbases, and so they each come from a beautiful nation with a beautiful historical past. We’ve had this excellent heavyweight renaissance, the UK being the epicenter of it, so I’ve all the time felt like they’ll combat in some unspecified time in the future. Mayweather-Pacquiao ultimately occurred. There have been rivalries for ten years, and ultimately, they occurred. I simply suppose it is sensible at one level.”
It would, in fact, 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 large as they’re, do get misplaced to time. I feel DuBoef is incorrect right here, and Fury and Joshua won’t ever combat. In the event that they have been going to combat, they’d have carried out so by now. All of us needed 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 means as Lewis-Bowe. Agree or disagree?
