Hughie. Ready for Price?

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i dont understand

maloney (prices promoter) didnt want the fight yet it was fury who relinquished the belts so price could fight somebody else for them?

or are we talking about something else?

Yes @erics44 that's what we're talking about. Apparently that's what happened. Price was so scared of Fury, that Tyson vacated to allow Price to win both belts at first try and avoid a humilating defeat at the hands of his fearsome rival. He's actually avoiding Wlad for the same reason.

If Fury is one thing, it is compassionate.

in all honesty, id like to hear the explanation for the above but in my opinion, at the time, i felt fury was right not to fight price because that fight could have been built into a monster a little later down the line

obviously it didnt work out that way, and now it looks like if fury could have lasted a few rounds against price he could have pulled off a win which would have been massive for him, so maybe he should have taken it

http://www.saddoboxing.com/boxingfor...o-maloney.html

Peter Fury is certain that the fight will sell 80,000 tickets and can't believe Price turned down £125,000 Genius.

Basically they ducked Price because they would have lost the purse bids. They didn't want to end up on BoxNation (the irony) because they have Channel 5. Well that worked out well.

Tyson went on to sign up for a pay per view event and when he beats Chisora again he will be in line for a title shot. David is where he is and wont go much further than where he was.

BoxNation was too small a platform for Fury when the Price fight was available but a couple of years later he signs a deal with the very same channel and is playing second fiddle to a man he's already beat. A man that he has to beat again to get in a position for a possible "world" title fight.

Seems like team Fury missed a trick by dodging Price. I mean 80,000 people will get a ridiculous amount of publicity in the boxing world wherever you're from.