So what was Fury\u2019s spin on the same issue? From his perspective, the fact that he acceded to his opponent\u2019s venue demands shows how desperate he is to take the fight, and supports his preferred narrative that Joshua has been avoiding him all along.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever they wanted, I\u2019ve just given them,\u201d Fury said. \u201cI\u2019ve had to bend over backwards, I\u2019ve been like putty, Play-Doh, trying to make this fight happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the final hurdle has been, \u2018oh, we want it in Britain or nothing\u2019. And they thought, \u2018Tyson\u2019s not going to come to Britain\u2019. Why wouldn\u2019t I want to come to Britain? OK, checkmate. Now what are you going to say?\u201d<\/p>\n
There is much more to be said before the first punch is thrown on December 11. Ultimately, though, we are talking about a substantial pay-out for two boxers who have not beaten anyone relevant in the last five years. Perhaps this was why they both seemed in such buoyant spirits at the Olympia launch.<\/p>\n
Asked whether he regretted that this fight has taken so long to set up, Fury said the quiet part out loud. \u201cI don\u2019t regret anything, because it\u2019s finally happening and it probably makes more financial sense now than it ever has done before. That\u2019s what we\u2019re in this sport for.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou guys get paid to do your job reporting about stuff, but for me, I\u2019m in this game to make money. It\u2019s more money than it ever was before, plus the fact we\u2019ve got the broadcasting giant Netflix streaming it, and plus the fact that Turki Alalshikh has got an open chequebook. It\u2019s never been a better time to be the Don of the division.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So what was Fury\u2019s spin on the same issue? From his perspective, the fact that he acceded to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[6565,59647,2560,2188,217,101,5438,6901,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":["post-790096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-anthony-joshua","tag-anthony-joshua-vs-tyson-fury","tag-boxing","tag-cardiff","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tyson-fury","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}