now Fury pulls out

[ross]

right I've been out most of the day and as of yet haven't read anything since early announcements

has Fury straight up bottled it ? I know we don't know truth but it does seem weird

I read Warren earlier saying it wasn't looking good for his uncle and that it was his trainer ??

Its hard to understand because a few have the name Hughie in the same family and also more than one family member/ uncle has trained Tyson.

Peters (im presuming) brother Hughie used to train Tyson. A Hughie was Tysons trainer around the time of the Chisora bout.

This Hughie was ill and had surgery and apparently it didnt go well and his family were told to be by his bedside.

When the Chisora bout was called off it wasnt Warren ramming Ustinov down the Furys throats as an alternate opponent, it was Peter Fury who went to Frank Warren and said that Tyson wanted to fight who could Frank muster.

A dying family member isnt a cut eye (which Tyson himself fought with in his last bout).

I still believe Tyson wanted to fight and that he had the better of Ustinov. Peter is the reason behind Tysons success lately and if Peter is bedside while his brother is fighting for his life he isnt going to want Tyson risking his career going in with no trainer against a fighter so vastly different and more dangerous than the original scheduled opponent without a calming hand at the helm.

So you can be reasonable when it comes to withdrawing from fights?

I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt but if you constantly taunt and try to humiliate oppenents that have to withdraw you have to expect it back in return.

Occasionally fighters need to withdraw from fights for reasons other than fear, maybe Fury will remember that in future.

I agree he will take stick. How can he not? Justified or not.

The Furys are a close family and this happened the night before the fight. Hughie (the uncle not Peters son) was in intensive care potentially on his death bed.

This wasnt something that had happened weeks or even days before giving everyone time to settle down and recover.

I will also say though that if his uncle and old trainer, (this is the man that was in his corner for the original Chisora bout and its also the same man who is Peter, Tysons current trainers brother) is genuinely fighting for his life with a blood clot that its not something that you would entertain doing to yourself to help your nephew get out of a fight.

Tyson may or may not have wanted to go ahead with the bout regardless that his uncle may be dying but I doubt very much that Peter would have left the hospital to be with Tyson and Eddie rather than stay bedside during what could have been his brothers last moments alive.