A Sad Day For Boxing... Fury versus Usyk is POSTPONED

Large2/02/2024 9:45 PM

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I can’t tell you how fucking sad I am after I heard the news today that the February 17th fight between Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk for the UNDISPUTED HEAVYWEIGHT CROWN has been postponed after Fury got gashed above his right eye during a sparring session.

As a boxing fan, I’ve spent most of my life arguing in different eras about who the greatest active heavyweight is, but we haven’t had a definitive answer since Lennox Lewis won all the straps in the division after beating Evander Holyfield in 1999.

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For those not good at math, that’s nearly a quarter of a century without an undisputed champ in that division.

And Fury versus Usyk would’ve ended that decades-long streak.

When I first heard the news, I did what other fans did… I became skeptical.

Was Fury inflating the injury to get out of a fight he wasn’t prepared for physically?… After all, Tyson did look like shit in his last outing against Francis Ngannou.

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But then I saw two pictures that I will share with you now.

The first one is of Fury’s gash…

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I'm kidding… That's a picture of Tyson's wife, Paris Fury. I am making cheap jokes to hide my pain… Apologies, Paris.

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Here's his most recent gash…

If I were a doctor, I wouldn’t know whether to stitch that up or fuck it… So the injury is legit.

And the second picture is a selfie Fury took recently in camp…

Fury never posted this pic until after he had to back out of the match. Perhaps he was just having a rare bad dick day, so he was too self-conscious about the size of his bulge to post it prior. But looking past his crotch, Tyson looks absolutely JACKED in this shot compared to the aforementioned pile of laundry he has resembled in fights past.

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So conditioning was not an issue.

Either way, Fury's camp has said his recovery could take "several months," so back to the drawing board for fight fans.

A drawing board we've been staring at for 25 fucking years.

Take a report.

-Large

The Carl Weather news added insult to injury today, since "the man who walked so Michael B. Jordan could run" passed away at the age of 76. Apollo had a soft spot reserved in the heart of every fan of the sweet science, so I am sending my condolences to his family.

RIP, Champ.