That’s what I’m confident in. >> Behind closed doors, though, the whole picture is tangled and complicated. And combat sports pundit Simon Jordan is pointing the finger straight at Turkey Alalshik as the man stirring up the confusion. >> It’s ironic, Paul, isn’t it? I mean, I look at it and say Turkey gets everyone playing against one another, creates a big load of disruption and then says I’m going to bring peace talks to the four.
I mean, what do you expect to come out of that sort of conversation just everyone gets a few more quid? I think ultimately that’s what it looks like, doesn’t it? From from the inside out, shall we say, rather than the outside in. From the outside in, what we’re seeing is the best fights happening and these promoters finally working together.
But now there’s been a little bit of a bond dropped in with with Dana White and and I’m not saying he’s the disruptor. the system and and the model that he has that’s going to be the disruptor and the fact that he’s signing fighters that were with previous organizations Alec Connor Ben and but as you just said yourself you know Ruben >> the venue itself has become a lightning rod for questions with no real answers on the table and plenty of observers reckon the ultimate decision rests entirely with Alalshik >> framing it in with bit a bit more nuance
you know you look back to when Bruno fought Lennox Lewis for the world title to some extent well not to some extent that was in that was in a British ring The scale of this fight is judged or challenged by the economics that the fighters want. We know that we can get 90,000 fans into Wembley Stadium, 100,000 if they’ll take it to watch Fury versus Joshua.
If you had a stadium in the UK that had 150,000 fans, they would fill it to watch this particular fight because it’s a crossover fight. The problem is is gates inside stadiums don’t pay the bills that the fighters would want. If you kind of want 50, 60, 70 million a fighter, which is what we’re being suggested these fighters want, then you’ve got to factor in not the gate receipts, but where best that the person that’s putting the money up wants to fight.
So, you got to ask yourself where does Turkey want it? Taking a swing at Hearn for acting like the biggest name in the room. Simon Jordan argues the promoter needs a reality check, insisting only Turkey allow carries the financial muscle to blow this fight up into the blockbuster it deserves to be. >> Why does he want this fight? Because he’s the money in the room.
He’s the one that’s creating the outcome because if Frank and Eddie are doing it, it has a certain scale and they’re not going to break the budget economically just to make a fight happen for Tyson Fury and for for Anthony Joshua. My view is is that wherever Turkey decides despite Eddie’s load of old contract that determines where it’s going to be? Who determines where it’s going to be is Turkey shake and what he wants.
Now, if he thinks there’s a better audience for him to get some blowback for what he’s doing with TKO in America, then he’ll put it in America. If he thinks it’s better for Riad season to keep the spotlight on what’s happening in that part of the world, he’ll put it in uh in the Middle East. If he thinks somehow that he owes a debt to British boxing and by doing this, he creates an outcome.
For his part, Hearn openly admits that Alalshik controls the money and holds the final word on this heavyweight spectacle. Even so, the promoter is fighting tooth and nail to drag the mega event onto home turf in the UK. His pitch leans on recent proof of concept, reminding everyone that his team already pulled off the enormous Chris Eubank Jr.
versus Connor Ben Grudge match on British soil. He’s got to find a way to make it workish, you know, we know that it’s a blockbuster event in terms of its numbers. Um I I would love to see this fight in the UK, you know, and I think he would too. So if there’s a way for it to be done, I think that would be everybody’s preference.
and just doing it in Cardiff. What the Principality Stadium with the roof? Does that make sense? >> You know, I mean, look, we did venue bank in November. >> Yeah, >> it’s fine. I mean, look, you are playing a little bit of roulette, but Millennium Stadiums is is a tremendous venue, you know. Um, like I said, there’s a bill to be paid and you got to find a way to pay it.
You know, they they we know that >> with the drama swirling, Frank Warren has stepped forward to offer some direction on exactly when Fury and Joshua will finally throw down. The date he’s floated stands apart from anything suggested by Hearn, Dana White, or the other voices inside each camp. That timeline sparks fresh doubts about how the surrounding fights slot in and how on earth Joshua turns around fast enough to fight again without craving a proper break after the Pringa clash.
>> Sometime I think in October by the looks of it. So that’s that’s that’s really where we are and it’s good. You know, it’s a great fight. Everybody’s been waiting for it and we’re going to see it at long last. >> How the timing is going to work, Frank. You got you got Joshua out in July, which might conflict more with Moses at which does, doesn’t it, on Moses at day, which creates a bit of a challenge for you.
But also, how is it going to play out with Joshua fighting at the end of July and then potentially two months later being in against Fury? Is there going to need to be an extension on that or Fury having another fight in between it to keep him ticking over? Well, um, you know, Tyson may want that and we’ll see. I spoke to him this morning.
We’ll see. But, um, AJ, you know, he that’s been the hold up. He wanted to fight back. You know, he fought Jake Paul. In a jaw-dropping development, Tyson Fury is reportedly lining up yet one more tuneup bout. Fresh off his recent war with Arcelen Beck Machmov. The heavyweight icon is said to be locking horns with a surprise opponent before he ever shares the ring with Anthony Joshua.
Ariel Helwani unpacked the eyebrow raising update in his latest video, warning that this unexpected side quest could throw the entire heavyweight schedule into disarray. >> Uh, Tyson Fury has a fight, believe it or not, and his next fight is not going to be against Anthony Joshua. For some reason, he needs another tune-up fight after the Makmoud fight back in April.
We remember that Tottenham Hotsour Stadium. It was just announced that it’s going to be Tyson Fury against, wait for it, Marius Walk. Now, this poster that was released is uh one that has a Netflix logo bottom left, but as our guy Daran reports, and I have confirmed as well, this will not air on Netflix. Not sure why it’s there.
Now, also worth noting, this fight is happening July 24th in Thailand. Now, July 24th. >> Digging into the pairing, Helwani finds it genuinely bizarre that a fighter with such a thin resume would land a crack at Fury. Still, the analyst concedes the scheduling is sharp. Joshua meets Prena on July 25, reportedly just a day after Fury tangles with Marius Wash, handing both superstars neatly synced warm-up dates.
>> Plastered on the chest and the back. This is not I mean, this is worker shoot. I think it’s a shoot to be honest. This is so weird. Anyway, this the he’s fighting another. So, so we’re getting the nice thing about it is the fights line up. It’s going to be Tyson on the 24th and it’s going to be um Oh, they’re going to be back to back actually 25th, right? AJ’s the 25th against Christian Pringa.
So, at the very least, we can’t say that the, you know, the the dates, the schedules, all that stuff and more do not line up. So, there you have it. Tyson Fury has a fight. Uh, it’s a uh it’s a weird one. >> Elephant >> Some might call it that. >> Joshua, meanwhile, is brimming with belief, setting his sights on flattening Prena before finally seizing the throne against Fury.
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Analyst Max Kellerman isn’t sold on him as a lasting dominant king, largely because of those past defeats. Even so, Kellerman acknowledges that Joshua has looked downright vicious in his recent victories, putting his skill driven edge over the rest of the division on full display. He almost had that fight won by knockout. It’s heavyweight boxing. Ruiz is good.
Everyone knows this. It can happen. Then he beats Ruiz in the rematch. And that may have changed his style a bit. He became a little bit safety first after that. Maybe it was a good idea for him in that point of his career. or a knockout can devastate someone’s confidence. Even the Dubois losses or loss, he was he hurt Dubois.
It was a competitive fight in which he was hunting Dubois, who’s a very athletic, big punching heavyweight. Once again, it can happen and it did. I never viewed AJ as a long-term dominant champion. I viewed him more as maybe a better version in terms of his skill at heavyweight of an Arturo Gaddy type. A guy who was going to be involved in a lot of big thrilling heavyweight fights.
Weighing in on all of it, Malik Scott tears into the doubters who keep writing Joshua off. The trainer argues the British star has honored his style in every single showing. Never once looking out of his depth, even when the pressure peaked. Scott insists it’s time people quit dredging up the stunning loss to Andy Ruiz.
Especially given that Joshua wiped the slate clean by winning the rematch straight away >> together so beautifully like an early Mike T. I’m talking about four or five six punch combinations. Then once he got knocked out he went a little bit more methodical and start boxing a little bit with his lead hand out you know moving a bit.
I I don’t mind how he for Ruiz in a rematch. A man knock you out like that embarrass you on your first time performing in front of America. the next fight you go fix and you shut him out and he adjusts >> and he basically shut him out like he did Ruiz. Absolutely. >> On the spectrum of Arturo Gaddy to Miguel Cotto meaning guys who are not the fastest but are well-rounded enough fighters people forget Gaddy could box early in his career and and I don’t mean to say Gaddy’s on the same level as Cotto.
Cotto is the extreme excellence of this level and Gaddy is on the other end although he was a very good fighter actually. When it comes to Pringa, the sense that he’ll be dealt with comfortably is spreading fast across the sport. Malik Scott offered his read on the bout, admitting the underdog carries a heavy right hand and real thump, but insisting there’s nothing on his record that stacks up against AJ.
In Scott’s eyes, Pringa is easy pickings on the way to the colossal Tyson Fury showdown. >> My Philly guy Joey Jco, who’s a tough guy, can be slick at times. Um, and and he was able to beat Joey Dwco. Now, do he have anything extremely on his resume like AJ do? No, you can’t compare that at all. But like Max said, what you can do is compare.
We have a big man that know how to throw a right hand. And guess what, Max? He have nothing to lose. And if this moment don’t get to him because he’s never been on the stage like this. You know, we could talk about techniques and what’s his advantages, but the real thing is how how is he going to react to this stage? AJ has been here so many times.
And in this case, AJ has a bigger fister for I mean Fury. So we’re gonna see how Pringa handle it. But he’s a big guy with a good right hand. He has nothing to lose. And we’ve seen funnier things happening. Christian Pringa against Anthony Joshua has left plenty of eyebrows raised throughout the boxing world.
Former champ Tim Bradley brands the pairing a flatout mismatch. Ripping into Netflix for putting on what he calls glorified charity shows. Bradley lumps the Jake Paul and Francis Enanu bouts into the same charity bucket, arguing that promoters are actively harming the sport by staging events like these. >> It’s a complete mismatch, you know, as far as experience goes, as far as it’s everything, you know.
This is another charity case. Netflix, y’all got to do better, man. Y’all can’t be letting these promoters bully y’all, man, into giving y’all this type of It’s trash. Really is. you know, um, y’all did that with Fury. Fury is supposed to y’all paid for a body and y’all didn’t get it. You know, at least Anthony Joshua over the last couple of charity cases he didn’t have.
There’s another one. Uh, Jake Paul was a charity case. Um, who else? Mangano was a charity case. This one for sure is a charity case. And the crazy thing is another kickboxer. Bradley is sounding the alarm for Joshua not to walk into a trap, warning that one shock slip up leaves the enormous fury fight dead in the water.
In the same breath, he reckons Joshua handled his business against Jake Paul, yet dismisses the whole affair as a scripted spectacle. The analyst wants the British star to serve up something genuinely devastating against Pringa. The kind of statement that erases his past defeats and cranks the hype for the biggest clash in the sports history.
>> I hope uh I hope AJ don’t fall into this, man. I thought AJ was going to fall into when he fought against Jake Paul and he didn’t. He came in, he wiped that man out. He wiped him out. He followed the script until he didn’t. He followed the script until he didn’t, you know, but uh you know, I I expect AJ to go in there and do the same thing.
Yeah, he we we want a body, AJ. Yeah, for sure. And if you don’t, it’s not going it’s not going to make the the Fury fight anymore better. It’s not It’s not going to make it any more better cuz Fury was supposed to give us that and he didn’t give us that. And then if you go in there and you lay an egg and you don’t give us what we supposed to get, I don’t really care about the Fury fight to be honest with you.
>> For all the harsh words, when Bradley actually turns to Joshua’s odds against Pringa, the former champ sounds surprisingly upbeat. His advice is blunt. Joshua should march straight at Pringa while steering clear of even one big counter landing flush. Bradley believes AJ will quiet the naysayers and tea up the massive undisputed showdown to perfection.
>> AJ, all you got to do is take it to him. That’s it. Avoid getting hit with a big big shot. You know, got a good right hand. All you got to do is take it to him. You know, this guy right here, he’s uh he’s tough, but he’s soft at the same time. He’s tough, but he’s soft at the same time. So, like, if you start to put the pressure on him, he ain’t never been at that level.
and you start hitting him hard and you bag him in the corner, he going to tug up in that high guard that dummy defense and uh he just going to he just going to take it. That’s it. Oh, he going to try to come back. But again, you got too much experience, AJ. Uh you got too much understanding of boxing, bro.
You know, don’t get reckless cuz he does got popped. But just take it to him, bro, and it should be easy easy work. With all the noise, fans are itching to find out just how much these two have left in the tank since both stars are reportedly signing up seemingly straightforward warm-up opponents. Real questions are bubbling up about why either man still needs a tuneup this deep into his career.
As the sport ponders it, Francis Inganu, a man who’s traded blows with both, steps in to offer his breakdown. >> Which which of them do you think will win? Well, again, uh at this level, I think, uh he’s very close. Everybody can win. Um and then he depends on how the fight goes. I think if he’s going to be like u go to decision, I I give the decision.
I will pick uh Fury. Uh if this fight go to decision and then if it’s like a knock knockout, I think Joshua has a chance. um early in the round, but as far as the fight goes, it’s going to be way more way off on the Fury F. >> Okay. Well, we will see. But in the meantime, we’re looking for >> On one side, you’ve got Joshua promising to break Pringa down and inflict real damage.
On the other, Pringa is vowing to torpedo the entire Joshua Fury blockbuster, openly declaring his mission is to wreck that showdown before it ever happens. Fully convinced he’ll walk away the winner. Asked about Joshua’s night with Jake Paul, he brushes it aside as a payday and boldly claims he’ll knock AJ out cold. >> I think he’s going to cancel the fight.
It’s not going to happen >> because you because you >> Yeah, I’m going to win July 25th. >> Yeah. >> Do you feel like is there a mentality from you where you don’t want to show respect to Joshua? Obviously, he’s done a lot, but is there in the ring there’s no respect for for AJ, would you say? >> In the ring.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> No, never respect in the ring. >> I don’t respect nobody in the ring. >> I respect him. He’s a great fighter, but not in the ring. >> What did you make of his fight against Jake Paul? For all the scorn aimed at the Jake Paul bout, Pringa insists he spotted holes in Joshua’s game that he intends to exploit.
Leaning on a kickboxing pedigree before crossing into boxing with 20 knockouts to his name. As far as Pringa is concerned, this is just another day at the office and an easy night’s work. And he’s even predicting Joshua won’t survive 12 rounds, promising to close the show by stoppage. Yeah. >> Did you you see you see things to expose in in there from AJ? >> Yeah. A lot.
>> A lot. >> How does it end on July 25th in your eyes? >> Even with the Fury Joshua mega fight supposedly sitting next in the queue, there’s real skepticism about whether it actually lands. Part of that doubt stems from the messy promotional wrangling and part from the warm-up fights themselves, which always carry the risk of an upset.
Dave Allen shares that same wireness before offering a prediction of his own, suggesting Joshua may hold the edge over Fury. >> How How do you see Fury and AJ going? >> I still don’t think it’ll happen. >> Do you not? >> No, I just don’t think we’ll see it. >> Some Some will happen. One of them will get beat.
That’s what I just don’t think it’ll happen. I just think I would still like to see it. I still think it’s the biggest fight in British boxing history. If >> it does happen, who wins? >> Who do I think wins? I think at this point Anthony Joshua’s got the better better chance he’s ever had. I don’t know. Tyson Fury’s got to keep away from him for 12 rounds.
You got to not get hit in 12 rounds. >> That’s >> and that’s a long time. >> I made Fury a massive favorite five or six years ago, but now not so much cuz he’s got to keep away for 12 rounds. And that’s going to be harder to do now than ever. I just need to see what Josh gets in the ring. Even though it’s Pringa and we all think he’s going to knock him out.
>> Jumping into the conversation, Tony Bellow flags a crucial piece of the puzzle behind booking Pringa against Joshua. In his eyes, until Joshua actually gets Pringa out of the way, it’s tough to call anything for a fight with Fury. Bellow suspects the true purpose of this bout is Joshua proving to his own team exactly how much he has left and just how far down the road he can still go.
>> Cuz I want to see him go through a camp. The only reason this fight’s happened is because AJ needs to show his team what he what happens to a 12week camp. And don’t bring up Jake Paul because come on. I mean we that wasn’t a camp. You’re not I mean you know it’s just that’s not a camp.
That that’s a that’s a he turned up at the circus and he dealt with the clown. So that that’s a whole different ball game. But this one he’s got a proper training camp 12 weeks in camp, whatever have you. It lets his team know exactly where we’re at and what we’re doing. That’s why this fight’s happening in my opinion. delivering their final verdicts.
Dave Allen and Tony Bellow both frame Pringa as easy prey for Joshua. Allan even reveals that Pringa was once lined up as his own opponent, though that matchup never came together. Now with Pringa facing Joshua instead, Allan is tipping a two round stoppage. A call Bellow mirrors exactly backing Joshua to wrap it up inside two rounds with a clean decisive finisher fight.
I asked to box Pringa um last October. I got Matt Mullav instead. >> That was a bit of a change, weren’t? >> Yeah, I wish I bought Pringa. Um >> I bet you do. >> I was matching myself at the time. I said to Ed, can I binger? He said, probably not. Um so I would think it’s probably a safe match for Joshua. Um but I think I think this is what he needs.
Like I say, a training camp is what he needs more than the fight. He’s got a lot of experience. I don’t think he need necessarily more fights, but I think Joshua wins inside two. Okay, I agree. I think this fight’s going to be over pretty quickly and pretty brutally. Uh, Pena, while he can punch, I don’t think he has very much going forward.
He’s going to be going backwards. And I just think AJ lands pretty quickly and it ends. >> These days, Joshua is confident he’ll scoop up the belts vacated by Usyk and reign as undisputed champion. While Fury reportedly maps out warm-up fights of his own, Eddie Hearn has taken aim at Fury for slotting in another tuneup, questioning the Gypsy King’s readiness given he’s just banked a full 12 rounds.
Hearn’s jab is pointed. If Fury still can’t march straight into the Joshua fight after logging all those rounds, what exactly does that tell you? >> For years and years, we tried to work Tyson Fury out and try and predict what he’s going to you can’t control him. So, he’s going to do what he’s going to do. And if he feels like he needs a good fight, I like that because what that’s telling me is he ain’t quite sure of himself because he did 12 good rounds with Matt Moodle, right? To a point where he really need more rounds.
>> That’s what the fans will say. Does he need one more? Because it inserts that jeopardy that it could go wrong. >> Yeah. And he said to us, “Oh, you don’t need another fight. We had four rounds with Jake Paul.” I mean, in two years of boxing, like come on. You had 12 rounds with Matt Mudov at Tottenham.
But you still feel like you need more rounds to prepare yourself for Anthony Joshua. But let me tell you something now. More rounds ain’t going to help you. >> So, will Joshua tighten his grip on the heavyweight division? Or is the whole landscape about to be flipped into chaos? Fire off your predictions down in the comments.
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