Contented Fury ready to fade away?

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Good post Henry

I think he's personally hurt by the lack of support from the boxing establishment in his native country. I don't blame him. Here he did a seemingly impossible thing (outboxing Klitschko at least eight or nine out of twelve rounds in Germany of all places) when so many have tried and failed and no one in the press gave him a shot of winning.

In Britain, instead of boasting and bragging about having the best heavyweight in the world, they throw all their support behind a relatively unproven heavyweight who won a trash can belt that was on the waist of a trash can fighter who won on a technicality over another trash can fighter, in a title fight that shouldn't have been in the first place. Yet the entire country is going bananas over him when just two months before he almost got sparked out against Dillian Whyte, who is domestic level at best.

In America, HBO and SHOWTIME ignore him and boast and brag about Deontay Wilder and his WBC trinket belt knocking over hand picked dead men and fringe hanger on's and speculate and jack off to the idea of a Wilder-Joshua contest, rather than give Fury the time of day. It's as if they sigh and say (reluctantly) "...but of course, the true champion is Fury" as if they are disappointed in a near seven foot, unorthodox, brash talking heavyweight who is just as entertaining out of the ring as he is in it.

The entire thing is a throwback to boxing's darker times. Rewind a hundred years and you see a similar situation where a loud, big, skillful heavyweight named Johnson defeated an unpopular champion.... and the entire world scorned the victory and instead looked at ANYONE ELSE in the world to be recognized as champion, or as a worthy challenger to defeat the "menace" that won the world's championship. That was because Johnson was 1) black, 2) controversial for the time, 3) trash talking, 4) considered unAmerican and for a number of years (as champion) lived as a man without a country.

Here we are in 2016.... a gypsy, whose been criticized heavily in the press for his views and language, who boasts and brags, and is considered "foreign" in his own birth country and isn't cherished on either side of the pond.... The date and times are different, but not the circumstance. Tyson Fury, the Gypsy King, the Romany Giant.... Jack Johnson, the Galveston Giant.... the same story all over again. Only this time, its not the Great White Hope, but rather the Great Black British Hope and the Great Black American Hope are considered more "champion" and "proper" than the legitimate, linear, undisputed, true, champion of the world.

[Badhusker]

@Badhusker Yup Khan fights bums like Canelo.

Also you say Fury's run is bad (despite beating an ATG) lets look at some of the others you mentioned.
Anthony Joshua
Charles Martin
Dillian Whyte
Gary Cornish
Kevin Johnson
Raphael Zumbano Love

Ortiz
Tony Thompson
Bryant Jennings
Matias Ariel Vidondo
Byron Polley
Lateef Kayode (NC because he tested postive)

I didn't say anything about Fury's run being bad. Quote me if I did, or STFU. I have an opinion about Fury not being a great champion, unlike a lot of people here. Pick apart what I said, but don't make poo up.

It was Ricky_ that said that, I don't know why I thought you did. Sorry.

No problem Bit. I should not have responded so sharply. Getting old and grumpy I guess lol.

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How did Buster fade away?

Buster won the title and never dedicated to his career again - took the $ and basically ran - Tyson said he ran into Buster at a signing and nobody cared to get Buster's autograph - he said Buster showed no pride in losing the title to Holyfield as a fat slob who took the $ and ran - he said he felt Buster regrets how his career ended too-

It's shit if you've no money behind you, most fighters could have made a few soft defences and made a few quid. Very few have to go straight in with someone like Holyfield.