{"id":708334,"date":"2026-06-01T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708334\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T18:30:08","slug":"tommy-fury-says-being-world-champ-is-goal-ahead-of-eddie-hall-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/708334\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Fury says \u2018being world champ\u2019 is goal ahead of Eddie Hall clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Tommy Fury will face Eddie Hall in a super-charged novelty boxing bout on June 13 in the main event of a Misfits Boxing card from Manchester, England, and says that he keeps driving forward because he wants to be a world champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">How we\u2019re supposed to think that spending the last three years fighting Jake Paul, KSI, a random club fighter in a six-rounder, and now Eddie Hall in a non-sanctioned bout is pushing him in that direction is a real puzzler, but he said it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThe only thing that I haven\u2019t achieved in my life is being a world champion. So I think that is the thing that keeps me driving on,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZCv8vVM0CD\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he told DAZN cameras<\/a>. \u201cFinancially making sure that we\u2019re good-good, because I\u2019ve got another kid on the way now. And that\u2019s it, everything\u2019s just for them. You want to make sure they\u2019re financially secure to the best way you can.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The \u201cfinancially for the kids\u201d part is something anyone can understand. But the \u201cbeing a world champion\u201d part should be heard as every bit as delusional and absurd as when Jake Paul says it. Even with the last name, Tommy Fury has proven pretty conclusively, now at age 27, that he is neither serious enough about nor good enough at boxing to win a world title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Fury (11-0, 4 KO) is just not a serious boxing prospect. Never really has been. He just has a serious boxing last name, and even that ties into one guy and not so much the other seven or 12 Furys who have tried their hand in the pro ranks, hoping the name can carry them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Realistically, Tommy has proven to be a less ambitious version of the man he narrowly beat, Jake Paul. However ridiculous you may find Paul\u2019s similar claims and statements, he got in there with Anthony Joshua. Tommy Fury has gotten in there with Kenan Hanjalic. These guys are not playing the same game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I don\u2019t usually do this, but there were a couple of user replies on DAZN\u2019s Instagram post that made me chuckle enough to share them, and I think sum up what a lot of the reaction naturally will be here:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">First, directed to Tommy himself: \u201cJesus, mate! I still haven\u2019t achieved scoring the winning goal for Liverpool in the Champions League final! But that\u2019s the thing that keeps me driving on! I\u2019m 48 years of age! Ya never know! We could both achieve our dreams together!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">And a reply to that: \u201cAs long as you keep kicking that ball on the park with the kids, you and Tommy are literally doing the same thing to achieve that end goal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Still, I admit to having some curiosity about the Fury vs Hall fight, taken as what it is, and what it is is not serious boxing. I\u2019ll tune in on June 13 just for the visual of seeing Fury combat a human refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Fury will face Eddie Hall in a super-charged novelty boxing bout on June 13 in the main&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,711,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-708334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}