Fury to Usyk: 'You are next you bitch. You rabbit. You pussy. 15st little midget. You beat a bodybuilder. You ugly little man. Let’s get it on. You little sausage.'
Sat at Vegas airport having a pina colada with Andy Lee when an American bloke across the bar hears the chat about boxing. “Did you guys see the fight?” He asks. “I caught bits of it,” Lee responds. “Looked like a good one.”
In February Daniel Dubois mocked Joe Joyce’s visually-impaired mum Marvel at a press conference.
Nine months later, her son jabbed the kid’s eyes in so badly that he could no longer see.
You couldn’t write it.
Dereck Chisora vowing to flow from Dillian Whyte’s anus like medically induced diarrhoea is the best trash talk of an extremely competitive 2018 field.
Ben Whittaker met Floyd Mayweather in 2017 and mentioned he was aiming for Olympic gold. Mayweather said: “When are you turn pro? After the Olympics? Oh Hell no. Trophies don’t collect nothing but dust.”
Now Whittaker will earn a fortune if he wins gold on Wednesday.
I’m hearing Joseph Parker against Zhilei Zhang might land on the Anthony Joshua v Francis Ngannou undercard 🔥
Presser in London this evening to confirm all. It’s going to be another belter.
The one thing I like about the whole Fury-Usyk saga is that Usyk walking away solely because of the split for the rematch as winner shows how unwaveringly confident he was of beating Fury at Wembley.
Zhilei Zhang has a deal with Queensberry and the original plan was for him to headline on December 23, potentially against Wilder.
But an injury ruled him out so he is now expected to feature on the undercard of Tyson Fury v Oleksandr Usyk on Feb 17.
Zhang-Bakole anyone?
Got word from inside the camp that Fury watched this in between the fourth and the fifth round. He said in the press conference afterwards that it helped him turn the tide.
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In an inauspicious side room in the bowels of the Wembley Arena, Frank Warren and Eddie Hearn have just met for the first time. Conversation lasted all of five minutes. Everything considered, an historic meeting.
The year is 2020. 45,000 British people have been wiped out by a virus in six months. A millionaire agrees to let two working class men known as ‘Egg’ and ‘Cheese’ fight each other in his garden in a bid to lift the spirits of the nation. Face coverings are mandatory in Tesco.
Frank Warren says he wants Anthony Yarde, should he come through his 10-rounder on Saturday, to fight the winner of Buatsi-Azeez and suggested a dual-broadcast on both Sky Sports and TNT.
Think we can file that firmly under: unlikely.
Amir Khan was one of the best fighters to cover; honest with his time, media-friendly and honest to a fault. Always remember him cheerfully holding court in his hotel room the morning after losing to Canelo. British boxing royalty.
Just bumped into Dillian Whyte at the breakfast buffet, asked how he’s feeling. “I’m good man,” he said. “I just want to know when I’m fighting next.”
He got out of the ring nine hours ago.
If Tyson Fury isn’t in your top 10 pound-for-pound rankings, go and find the nearest mirror, look directly into your eyes, take one long, deep breath in and then slap yourself as hard as humanly possible.