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DrDuke wrote: ↑07 Oct 2021, 04:14

vidal wrote: ↑07 Oct 2021, 04:13 Hearn yesterday on Talk Sport mentioned his prep' being a bit off due to some personal issues. I'm just hoping he's on his game.

What f*cking Eddeh Hearn can know about the Fury's camp?

Phenomenal-Nutrition wrote: ↑07 Oct 2021, 06:53 Fury spoke about this. Said he's only been sparring for the last 3 weeks. In August/September his daughter was born with a condition and I believe she needed life saving surgery. So he took 2 weeks out of camp for that

But said 3 weeks was plenty of time and he'd be training daily as part of his routine since the last fight pretty much. And had plenty of sparring in that time.

So Hearn is sort of correct in that this isn't a long camp. But Fury reckons he's in top condition and says he won't have any excuses if he loses. Fury will also have had 18 more months working on the Kronk style, which he only had a few months of for the second fight. Both Fury and Sugar Hill have stated he's much better in the style now than he was in the second fight.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Oct 2021, 06:05 full card info and TV schedule

Wednesday, October 6

ESPN2 and FS1, 5:00 pm ET, Fury vs Wilder 3 press conference. There will also be live streams from PBC and Top Rank, one assumes, and if so we’ll have streams for you.

Friday, October 8

ESPN2 and FS1, 5:00 pm ET, Fury vs Wilder 3 weigh-in. Same as the presser, surely there will be live streams, and we’ll be here with coverage.

Saturday, October 9

ESPN App and FOX Sports App, 4:30 pm ET, Fury vs Wilder 3 “Early Undercard.” The earliest fights from Vegas. The thread for the whole show will be up, of course, but we’ll still be focused on the Smith-Fowler card through these early fights.

ESPN+, ESPN2 and FS1, 7:00 pm ET, Fury vs Wilder 3 Undercard. Do not get this confused: There will be a three-fight undercard on the PPV card, but these are more early fights fishing for last-minute buys. There will be two fights on this portion of the card. Bad Left Hook will have live coverage.

PPV, 9:00 pm ET, Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder 3. To be clear here, the undercard bouts on the PPV portion of the broadcast are Efe Ajagba vs Frank Sanchez, Robert Helenius vs Adam Kownacki 2, and Jared Anderson vs Vladimir Tereshkin. It’s an all-heavyweight PPV. You know what Fury-Wilder 3 is, what it’s for, what it’s about, why you should want to see it. No reason to go on. As always, we’ll be here. Bad Left Hook will have live coverage.

margaret thatcher wrote: ↑06 Oct 2021, 21:28

Tony1244 wrote: ↑06 Oct 2021, 21:27 It may be merely nationalism, and nationalism is fine, but this emphasis on Wilder's eloquence is quite silly.

you brought it up, people simply disagreed, omg theyre dirty nationalists!

jamesmcdonnell wrote: ↑07 Oct 2021, 07:14

Phenomenal-Nutrition wrote: ↑07 Oct 2021, 06:53 Fury spoke about this. Said he's only been sparring for the last 3 weeks. In August/September his daughter was born with a condition and I believe she needed life saving surgery. So he took 2 weeks out of camp for that

But said 3 weeks was plenty of time and he'd be training daily as part of his routine since the last fight pretty much. And had plenty of sparring in that time.

So Hearn is sort of correct in that this isn't a long camp. But Fury reckons he's in top condition and says he won't have any excuses if he loses. Fury will also have had 18 more months working on the Kronk style, which he only had a few months of for the second fight. Both Fury and Sugar Hill have stated he's much better in the style now than he was in the second fight.

Yeah, good points.

He will probably be sat down on his punches more, which suggests an early bath for Shaka Foolu.

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑07 Oct 2021, 05:39 Bob Arum discusses Fury-Wilder 3 press conference blow-up with media members

Video of Top Rank promoter Bob Arum getting into a verbal confrontation with boxing reporter Mike Coppinger went viral, and I’m guessing it will have a solid shelf life, because it’s not every day you see an almost 90-year-old man bark and snarl at a guy young enough to be his grandson, who also happens to work for ESPN.

At Wednesday’s Fury-Wilder 3 press conference, Arum — working in concert with Premier Boxing Champions for Saturday’s show — took questions from media, and not just about this weekend’s event.

Arum discussed his “disappointment” in the way Triller mishandled the Teofimo Lopez-George Kambosos Jr fight, which will now be promoted by Matchroom Boxing.

“Here’s a kid, Teofimo, who wins the fight that nobody expected him to win, and he’s on top of the world, and he hasn’t fought in over a year,” said Arum. “That’s a criminal, criminal—” and he was then interrupted by Coppinger, who joined the ESPN ranks a few months ago and stood six or seven feet from Arum.

“Yeah, but Bob, it wouldn’t have went to purse bid if you’d have paid (Lopez) what he was looking for,” Coppinger said, and you can see Arum’s face tense up. The promoter hesitates a half second, then lets loose with a doubled barreled counter. “Shut the fornicate up you little prick, yeah, you prick,” he barked.

“Oh yeah? Yeah?” Coppinger responded. “Go ahead.” Arum directed Derrick Harmon to usher Coppinger away. In the video, which got posted to several websites, you see Harmon respond after Arum said, “Get him outta here. Move him outta here, Derrick.”

I messaged Coppinger to see what that was all about. I was curious if he was telling Arum it was OK to try and take a poke at him. Coppinger declined to comment, but Arum did not. Bob told me that he took offense in the moment because Coppinger was out of his lane, essentially.

“He’s a reporter, for Christ’s sake,” Arum said a couple hours after the hubbub. “What’s he doing, that’s not acting like a reporter!”

But Arum did say he had no intention of making it anything more than a verbal trade. “I haven’t retired from the (promotional) game, I’m still doing this, but I retired from fighting, like, 20 years ago.”

Arum also got quite animated when discussing what seemed like a possible snafu at the end of the presser. Emcee Kate Abdo, as solid and smooth as they come in this role, asked if maybe the fighters would like to come together for a face-off. She then announced that no, that wouldn’t be happening, at the behest of Bob Arum. I didn’t think it was any sort of big deal, but Arum took umbrage, and unloaded a mini rant about Abdo’s attempt to fashion a faceoff.

He said to a group of media that he thought Abdo was slanted in favor of Wilder, and he went off on it, saying, “fornicate her and fornicate them, there was no face-off, and we saved the fight.”

Arum felt the plan to not do a face-off at the presser — which he said had been pre-discussed with FOX producers — was being ignored, but he expended more energy than needed in the moment. And he admitted as much to me when I told him that I think Abdo is a consummate pro. Yes, Arum allowed, and said he did touch base with her after he let loose with his critique, and he stands corrected.

Arum essentially said he apologized to her, and I also messaged Abdo to give her the opportunity to share her take on the matter, and will insert a response if furnished.

My Three Cents: Points to Arum, for being that fired up at 89-plus. You could argue points to Copp, too, for speaking truth to power, even if you think sometimes he and we the media blur lines between reporting news and offering opinion.

Enlightened-One wrote: ↑07 Oct 2021, 10:33 Thoughts of the day (since I may change my mind in the next day or so)…

Tyson Fury tests Deontay Wilder’s newly acquired pugilistic skills by keeping the fight at long-range, beyond the reach of the American’s hooks and uppercuts, in order to outbox ‘The Bronze Bomber’(via awkward feints, jabs & footwork).

When he’s boxing on the outside, Fury will keep away from the ropes, trying to own the centre of the ring, to give him an escape route (a backwards step or two), should Wilder attempt to throw one of his clumsy leaping haymakers.

To pace himself and also wear down Wilder, Fury will quickly and intermittently transition from long to close range and back again (avoiding Wilder’s mid-range blows), so that he can occasionally engage in a chest-to-chest grinding ugly physical clinch fight.

When he’s engaged in clinches, Tyson will use his superior size to push Wilder, forcing the American to retreat and lean his back on the ropes, with all his body weight resting on his heels, preventing Deontay from having any leverage behind his shots.

I think that’ll be Fury’s game-plan and path to victory, though I am very concerned about the Brits weight gain, the damage around his eyes, the lacklustre sparring rumours, coupled with boxing insiders (such as Eddie Hearn) claims about Tyson being out-of-shape.