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Why is it taking Hennessey so long to find an opponent?

About half the BoxRec current top 50 heavyweights are looking for their next fight.

Why not try to get Alexander Dimitrenko, Michael Grant, or Tony Thompson?

Great minds think alike: http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=157934

Horse wrote:Great minds think alike: http://boxrec.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=157934

Sorry, I didn't notice the other thread.

I can't understand with so many HWs looking for a fight why it's taking so long for Hennessey to find someone.

I'd guess it's a combination of a fairly limited purse offer from Team Fury combined with excessive demands from anyone with a 'name'. No-one has yet accepted in that sweet spot between Promotional Profiteering and topping up a Heavyweight Hamburger Pension fund.

If he fights someone good with this short an amount of notice then fair play.

Alex Leapai or Derric Rossy are the best we can expect. Probably.

deadpan wrote:Alex Leapai or Derric Rossy are the best we can expect. Probably.

Fury said today he made proposals to Adamek, Chambers, Chagaev and Povetkin:

http://www.allboxing.ru/archives/2012-10-16_20_05.html

But he and Hennesey should have contacted Dimitrenko, Grant and others that are looking for a fight.

frank maloney or eddie hearn

He's just tweeted that he's fighting someone from the WBC top 5.

1 Arreola
2 Stiverne
3 Boytsov
4 Fury
5 Grano

Arreola and Stiverne are having a final eliminator against each other so it'll either be the dangerous unbeaten Russian, Denis Boytsov or Tony Grano, who I had to look up and was sparked in 2 rounds by the murderous Nikolai Firtha and earned his ranking with victories over Davarryl Williamson and Brian Minto.

earsjohn wrote:He's just tweeted that he's fighting someone from the WBC top 5.

1 Arreola
2 Stiverne
3 Boytsov
4 Fury
5 Grano

Arreola and Stiverne are having a final eliminator against each other so it'll either be the dangerous unbeaten Russian, Denis Boytsov or Tony Grano, who I had to look up and was sparked in 2 rounds by the murderous Nikolai Firtha and earned his ranking with victories over Davarryl Williamson and Brian Minto.

Brother of Chelsea legend Scott Minto?

earsjohn wrote:He's just tweeted that he's fighting someone from the WBC top 5.

1 Arreola
2 Stiverne
3 Boytsov
4 Fury
5 Grano

Arreola and Stiverne are having a final eliminator against each other so it'll either be the dangerous unbeaten Russian, Denis Boytsov or Tony Grano, who I had to look up and was sparked in 2 rounds by the murderous Nikolai Firtha and earned his ranking with victories over Davarryl Williamson and Brian Minto.

If he fights himself I hope he does us all a favour by knocking himself out.

Tunney wrote:Why is it taking Hennessey so long to find an opponent?

About half the BoxRec current top 50 heavyweights are looking for their next fight.

Why not try to get Alexander Dimitrenko, Michael Grant, or Tony Thompson?

My money is on his local Avon Lady or is she isn't available, his local pub landlord!

Facetiousness aside, Fury really needs to step up now.

He talks a good game & has proven he's got the balls to match the talk, but the standard of his opponents leaves a lot to be desired.

The 3 guys you've mentioned would be good stepping stones for him & far better than the names on his record right now.

milpool wrote:

earsjohn wrote:He's just tweeted that he's fighting someone from the WBC top 5.

1 Arreola
2 Stiverne
3 Boytsov
4 Fury
5 Grano

Arreola and Stiverne are having a final eliminator against each other so it'll either be the dangerous unbeaten Russian, Denis Boytsov or Tony Grano, who I had to look up and was sparked in 2 rounds by the murderous Nikolai Firtha and earned his ranking with victories over Davarryl Williamson and Brian Minto.

If he fights himself I hope he does us all a favour by knocking himself out.

I think this gentleman is asking for someone to post 'that' gif.

Riddick Blowe wrote:

milpool wrote:

earsjohn wrote:He's just tweeted that he's fighting someone from the WBC top 5.

1 Arreola
2 Stiverne
3 Boytsov
4 Fury
5 Grano

Arreola and Stiverne are having a final eliminator against each other so it'll either be the dangerous unbeaten Russian, Denis Boytsov or Tony Grano, who I had to look up and was sparked in 2 rounds by the murderous Nikolai Firtha and earned his ranking with victories over Davarryl Williamson and Brian Minto.

If he fights himself I hope he does us all a favour by knocking himself out.

I think this gentleman is asking for someone to post 'that' gif.

yeah classic on that although he's not the first big man to uppercut himself, Wladamir Klitchsko did it whilst warming up for a fight and Stitch got called in to stem the blood.

its going to be Tony grano

Jesuslovesyou wrote:its going to be Tony grano

Could be somebody worse, at least he's ranked by the WBC.

freddydoesdallas wrote:

earsjohn wrote:He's just tweeted that he's fighting someone from the WBC top 5.

1 Arreola
2 Stiverne
3 Boytsov
4 Fury
5 Grano

Arreola and Stiverne are having a final eliminator against each other so it'll either be the dangerous unbeaten Russian, Denis Boytsov or Tony Grano, who I had to look up and was sparked in 2 rounds by the murderous Nikolai Firtha and earned his ranking with victories over Davarryl Williamson and Brian Minto.

Brother of Chelsea legend Scott Minto?

I was thinking Polo Minto.

jameswilson wrote:

freddydoesdallas wrote:

earsjohn wrote:He's just tweeted that he's fighting someone from the WBC top 5.

1 Arreola
2 Stiverne
3 Boytsov
4 Fury
5 Grano

Arreola and Stiverne are having a final eliminator against each other so it'll either be the dangerous unbeaten Russian, Denis Boytsov or Tony Grano, who I had to look up and was sparked in 2 rounds by the murderous Nikolai Firtha and earned his ranking with victories over Davarryl Williamson and Brian Minto.

Brother of Chelsea legend Scott Minto?

I was thinking Polo Minto.

This has got me thinking, how much Di you reckon you could amend a fighters wiki page without the tabloids cottoning on? Nicknames, well known facts etc?

freddydoesdallas wrote:

jameswilson wrote:

freddydoesdallas wrote:
Brother of Chelsea legend Scott Minto?

I was thinking Polo Minto.

This has got me thinking, how much Di you reckon you could amend a fighters wiki page without the tabloids cottoning on? Nicknames, well known facts etc?

It's funny you said that (and I know I'v told this story on here before but it's worth mentioning as often as possible because it is incredibly funny) because the Spurs midfielder Sandro, from Brazil just before he signed for Spurs didn't have much on his english wikipedia page. So I went on his wikipedia page and made up some bullshite story about some chant that the fans at his Brazilian club used to sing about him and his agricultural roots. For the record none of it's true and I dunno if he even has agricultural roots. But I happened to be in London the next day and on the tube in the Metro that day....

http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/oddballs/8 ... n-at-spurs

I think we know where the Metro journalists do their research!

Brilliant, that's the type of thing that could easily be written about a boxer. I'm sure you'd get away with it to a very high level too