The card for the first Matchroom USA show has been announced. DAZN now know what they are getting for their $$$, and it’s rotten fish guts.
Deontay Wilder was always going to have a tough job. Holding the WBC belt versus the WBO, IBF, WBA, of Matchroom’s Anthony Joshua must be a bit like winning the egg and spoon race at school sports day while, across the field, Jimi Hendrix is playing at Woodstock.
I counted eight people all kneeling or standing, giving total attention towards the struggling mind and body of David Price. He was laying on his back, trying to sit up, clutching on to the arm of the referee and mouthing something I couldn’t hear.
So, again, a promoter announces “The biggest domestic fight in history”. This time it’s different faces, but the same old schtick is still there like an itch right in the middle of your back – just between the shoulder blades.
Having been told a while ago that Eddie Chambers was thinking of joining Team Fury, I thought “Astute of him. Where has he been?”.
It was in January of 2013 that I first met the Fury family. I’d just beaten the snow out of the UK by twelve hours and was sitting in a freezing Dutch ferry terminal waiting for a lift from Peter Fury – a man I’d never met – to spend a week in the famous Fury training camp in Belgium.
If the road to the top in any sport is beset with challenges and hard physical graft, then boxing must rank amongst the toughest.