Tommy Fury has reacted – harshly – to Jake Paul’s landmark knockout victory over Tyron Woodley. Fury was, of course, supposed to fight Paul in Woodley’s place, but a rib injury kept him out of the ring.
Fury was surprised to hear Jake Paul calling out the likes of the UFC’s Nate Diaz and Jorge Masvidal rather than scheduling a rematch with him. In a recent interview with Queensberry Promotions, Fury blasted Paul for continuing to fight mixed martial artists, not boxers.
Tommy Fury: “You want to proclaim yourself as a boxer? Stop calling out the UFC people!”
“You want to proclaim yourself as a boxer. Stop calling out the UFC people. Come and fight me like you were going to. Yeah, what happened was unfair. My fault, my bad, hold my hands up, what can I do? Ungodly things happen. But next year, let’s get it done bright and early, let’s get back in training and let’s give this whole world the fight that they want to see.
Let’s see if you’re the real boxer or not. You’re getting all this and you’re getting all that that you’ve never fought a boxer before and you still haven’t. Let’s get this fight on, let’s get this fight done, I’ll be ready to go in March. So I’ll see you then.”
Fury further criticized the YouTuber-turned-boxer for what was a largely uneventful fight. The knockout blow in round six was arguably the first major shot either fighter took in the entire bout. If you want to box, Tommy Fury says, then box. Don’t wrestle and leave commentators complaining about the lack of pace on the fight.
“I think it’s a pretty bad place you’re in when the commentator’s whose commentating your fight says, ‘It’s getting pretty hard to watch now.’
And they’re joking between the commentators, ‘Who won that round? Well, nobody.’ That went on for well more than half the fight. I was just watching it and it was very upsetting for me to sit there and watch it.
I’m not gonna beat around the bush because I know if I’d have been there it wouldn’t have gone six, seven rounds or whatever it was. It wouldn’t go there because for the first four or five rounds, the guy didn’t throw a punch. He didn’t throw anything. They were just wrestling each other.”
Tommy Fury wants to reschedule the fight with Jake Paul for 2022, and hopes to do so sooner rather than later. Do you think Fury vs Paul will be a more exciting affair or will it be more of the same for the YouTuber? Let us know in the comments.
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