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mimmy123 wrote:You will never get 40K crowd to see Price v Fury. They are not big enough and there is no public interest in terms of Haye v Chisora. You would fill the MEN with a good card but no chance of 40K. I bet you can walk down any high street with a picture of Price and Fury and ask the general public who they are and I bet more than 50% wouldn't have a clue. Show a picture of Anthony ogoo and more will know that kid, but possibly not his name but lots would say he fought in the Olympics, and that's the general public.

The fight has no interest. there is nothing to see,

Completely disagree with pretty much all of that.

That fight has big attraction right now and would generate huge interest if signed and made, especially whilst both fighters remain unbeaten. A huge crowd would attend Anfield for the fight, IMO.

Channel 5 has given Fury good profile in the past 12 months, at least that's my experience amongst most of my mates and work colleagues (those being only casual sports fans). By association, Price's name inevitably comes up when Fury is on tv and visa-versa.

I would happily have a wager with you about the public's recognition of Price/Fury over Anthony Ogogo.

not a chance in hell this fight will happen,well not for a few years anyway cos its a known fact fury wants klitchko first and make the big bucks !

johnnykayo wrote:not a chance in hell this fight will happen,well not for a few years anyway cos its a known fact fury wants klitchko first and make the big bucks !

Will he make big bucks fighting Klit though? The Klit brothers are the champions and names in the division. They'll be the ones making the lions share of the purse.

ILikeBeer wrote:

johnnykayo wrote:not a chance in hell this fight will happen,well not for a few years anyway cos its a known fact fury wants klitchko first and make the big bucks !

Will he make big bucks fighting Klit though? The Klit brothers are the champions and names in the division. They'll be the ones making the lions share of the purse.

A Klitchko fight is catch 20-2 for Fury, it he gets the shot as a voluntary he will probably make a few extra quid but will invariably have to give team Klitchko a number of options concerning his immediate boxing career. If he fights as mandatory, there no risk of options but his purse will only be a limited percentage of the total fight purse, which might not be the best.

ILikeBeer wrote:

johnnykayo wrote:not a chance in hell this fight will happen,well not for a few years anyway cos its a known fact fury wants klitchko first and make the big bucks !

Will he make big bucks fighting Klit though? The Klit brothers are the champions and names in the division. They'll be the ones making the lions share of the purse.

Let's face it as well, Fury won't win any fight against either Klitschko. He doesn't hit anywhere near hard enough to trouble either of them, especially Vitali, he's technically inferior to both, has a questionable chin, poor defence, would be fighting away from home and has no top level experience.

At least with Price there is always the chance that he could land a huge shot and knock one of them (especially Wlad) out. I don't see any way Fury could win the fight so he may as well cash out a bit against Price first and even if he loses he may still be able to make the Klitschko fight as Chisora did after his loss to Fury.

liamlion wrote:

mimmy123 wrote:You will never get 40K crowd to see Price v Fury. They are not big enough and there is no public interest in terms of Haye v Chisora. You would fill the MEN with a good card but no chance of 40K. I bet you can walk down any high street with a picture of Price and Fury and ask the general public who they are and I bet more than 50% wouldn't have a clue. Show a picture of Anthony ogoo and more will know that kid, but possibly not his name but lots would say he fought in the Olympics, and that's the general public.

The fight has no interest. there is nothing to see,

Completely disagree with pretty much all of that.

That fight has big attraction right now and would generate huge interest if signed and made, especially whilst both fighters remain unbeaten. A huge crowd would attend Anfield for the fight, IMO.

Channel 5 has given Fury good profile in the past 12 months, at least that's my experience amongst most of my mates and work colleagues (those being only casual sports fans). By association, Price's name inevitably comes up when Fury is on tv and visa-versa.

I would happily have a wager with you about the public's recognition of Price/Fury over Anthony Ogogo.

Got to agree with the Lion here, also i have a feeling Manchester wouldn;t lie down and go quietly here....meaning, if Liverpool get behind Price, manchester i reckkon would turn up in force for Fury, purely for the rivalry:

Price v Fury
Liverpool v Manchester
Be a big fight if it happened and Anfield would be rocking, sadly i don't think it will come to pass.

How long is Mick Hennessy's contract with Channel 5? I don't think Mick is scared of Fury losing. I think he's more scared of losing his contract with Channel 5.

If Fury does lose to Price. Is he worried Fury's popularity would diminish and Channel 5 would give him the boot? Or has Channel 5 threatened Mick, that Fury is to fight on Channel 5 only?

He does have James Degale and Chris Eubank Jr. Though they wouldn't be able to carry the show between them.

As others have said. Whoever loses will be able to come again.There's more to this situation than Fury simply ducking Price imo.

Every casual sports fan in Liverpool knows who Pricey and Fury are and the rivalry that comes with them. If the fight was signed for Anfield there'd be MASSIVE interest in it, both at home and around the country. For a start, there's never fights at Anfield so if it did get used as a venue, people would immediately be drawn to the fact that something special is going down.

jBacca wrote:Every casual sports fan in Liverpool knows who Pricey and Fury are and the rivalry that comes with them. If the fight was signed for Anfield there'd be MASSIVE interest in it, both at home and around the country. For a start, there's never fights at Anfield so if it did get used as a venue, people would immediately be drawn to the fact that something special is going down.

I think you have hit the nail on the head there I think many people outside of Liverpool fail to recognise how big the sport is in the city. Obviously there is the big two teams and there is to some degree a league and union rugby interest but next up its boxing. Imagine a big fight at Anfield back to the fabled days of the earlier part of last century when it was regularly used as a fight venue.

This won't happen. Have a feeling Maloney is only coming out with this as he knows Fury already has plans. Thought I heard NYC on St Patrick's Day.
I wouldn't hold my breath for this to happen at all

Wales wrote:

mimmy123 wrote:You will never get 40K crowd to see Price v Fury. They are not big enough and there is no public interest in terms of Haye v Chisora. You would fill the MEN with a good card but no chance of 40K. I bet you can walk down any high street with a picture of Price and Fury and ask the general public who they are and I bet more than 50% wouldn't have a clue. Show a picture of Anthony ogoo and more will know that kid, but possibly not his name but lots would say he fought in the Olympics, and that's the general public.

The fight has no interest. there is nothing to see,

You walk dowm liverpool with a picture of price and theyll tell you who he is, and the scousers dont half get behind their man. Also, if you think haye chisora caught the publics attention imagine what fury and price would do with their pressers! If mitchell katsidis can do a stadium, fury price can. In my opinion.

If I walk down the streets in Swindon does that also apply?

Vaudeville Villain wrote:

mimmy123 wrote:
The fight has no interest...

...In fact, I won’t even bother posting about it because, erm, damn.

There will be interest when they coal the fire.

mimmy123 wrote:

Wales wrote:

mimmy123 wrote:You will never get 40K crowd to see Price v Fury. They are not big enough and there is no public interest in terms of Haye v Chisora. You would fill the MEN with a good card but no chance of 40K. I bet you can walk down any high street with a picture of Price and Fury and ask the general public who they are and I bet more than 50% wouldn't have a clue. Show a picture of Anthony ogoo and more will know that kid, but possibly not his name but lots would say he fought in the Olympics, and that's the general public.

The fight has no interest. there is nothing to see,

You walk dowm liverpool with a picture of price and theyll tell you who he is, and the scousers dont half get behind their man. Also, if you think haye chisora caught the publics attention imagine what fury and price would do with their pressers! If mitchell katsidis can do a stadium, fury price can. In my opinion.

If I walk down the streets in Swindon does that also apply?

Being at university I've gotten to know kids from the bottom of the country to the top. These egg-chasers have no interest in boxing unless it's Khan for a world title. Still, they all know who Fury and Price are. Tina in Swindon may not care; neither may Keith the IT whiz, but the casual sports fan certainly knows the score and what will be on stake if the two fighters meet.

The Fury hype machine has done its job.

jBacca wrote:

mimmy123 wrote:
If I walk down the streets in Swindon does that also apply?

Being at university I've gotten to know kids from the bottom of the country to the top. These egg-chasers have no interest in boxing unless it's Khan for a world title. Still, they all know who Fury and Price are. Tina in Swindon may not care; neither may Keith the IT whiz, but the casual sports fan certainly knows the score and what will be on stake if the two fighters meet.

The Fury hype machine has done its job.

Whats swindon got to do with the price of fish fingers? You said any high street. I doubt swindon would be where the marketing campaign would be centred. As far as im concerned if mitchell katsidis is a stadium fight price fury can be done too, and a huge proportion of the crowd would be scousers.

I'd have no heditations on ppv for this!

& I hate it when people say it should be for somthing bigger!!
British boxing will do better if world prospects face off it makes being British champion more compelling to overseas audiences & make respectable title challengers

Being in North Wales i'd be there. id wager a load of North Walians would, they did with Hatton also.

if they both remained unbeaten after 5 more fights, the fight would be soo much bigger!!

world title? elimination or even unification???

Delusional

They couldn't fill the MEN arena let alone Anfield....neither man is a major star, why on earth are 40,000 people going to turn out to watch them.

Jesus, a British heavyweight Domestic clash hasn't been front page news since the days of Cooper, or Bruno v Bugner.


The only heavyweights with that kind of draw are the klits, and they have been at the top of the sport for a decade.

Only way they would fill a football stadium is if each of them beat one of the klits, and then unified the title.

^ your delusional this fight would def fill a stadium it's the biggest fight in British boxing ATM and the rivalry equals Benn/Eubank these two can't stand each other, it's one of , if not the biggest fight in the heavyweight division , two British giants both ranked inside the top ten , both unbeaten, both exciting, I thing they should fight now before one loses ( likely fury to klit) then fight again when price had won the title & fury bounced back, massive fight, massive fighters, massive future for both, Infact it should be called " MASSIVE" lol

Of course there is interest in this fight, what are people talking about?

Wouldn't put Price in the top ten. Also seems a touch optimistic saying Fury can come again when Price is world champion.

I like Pricey, actually, I like both ( rare I know, these two seem to have attracted the football fan mentality, its either one or the other etc ) but I don't think either will win a world title. Especially if Wlad sticks round. He would take them both out on the same night.

All a bit irrelevant though. I couldn't be any more sure this fight isn't going to happen yet.

http://www.BS.com/fury-camp-no ... now--61265

The above link shows that Fury and his team have no intention of facing Price any time soon. Not surprising. They know he'll get knocked out easily and so they've decided to swerve it despite all the big talk.

lillywhite14 wrote:Wouldn't put Price in the top ten. Also seems a touch optimistic saying Fury can come again when Price is world champion.

I like Pricey, actually, I like both ( rare I know, these two seem to have attracted the football fan mentality, its either one or the other etc ) but I don't think either will win a world title. Especially if Wlad sticks round. He would take them both out on the same night.

What a load of crap! Price will beat Wlad you'll see