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Tyson Fury’s focus is on his family during coronavirus pandemic

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Tyson Fury’s team might be hard at work trying to make a late 2020 fight against Anthony Joshua a reality, but Fury, the lineal heavyweight champion and WBC titleholder, has had his focus centered on home.

He’s been making the most of his time the past six-plus weeks as the world has been shut down, and while sequestered away inside his home, Fury hasn’t been shy in sharing his workouts on social media.

But boxing isn’t really at the forefront of his mind at this moment.

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“As a family, this has been good for us. We can take positives out of any negative situation because you get to spend a lot of time with each other. More time than I would’ve been able to if the lockdown hadn’t been on,” Fury told ESPN.

“We’ve done a lot of training workouts together and stuff. It’s grown the family closer.”

Fury put on a tremendous performance on Feb. 22 when he earned a seventh-round TKO victory in a rematch against Deontay Wilder, but within a month of that victory, boxing ground down to a standstill.

But even with almost no fights going on worldwide, the business of boxing moves forward. Even though Wilder invoked his contractually obligated opportunity at a third fight against Fury, negotiations to line Fury up to face Joshua (who has the WBA, IBF and WBO belts) to unify all of the heavyweight titles in late 2020 are underway — provided Wilder agrees to a step-aside agreement.

“I’m not really positive,” Fury said when asked whom he’d prefer to fight next, “because none of these fights are really relevant at the moment, are they? Because there’s no boxing, there’s no sport, nothing. Nothing’s going on. So to talk about boxing, or dream fights, you might as well fight fighters from the past because none of it is real, anyways.”

Tyson Fury, left, dominated Deontay Wilder in February but still called the former WBC heavyweight champ “the toughest opponent out there.” Al Bello/Getty Images

“I’m not really interested in boxing right now,” he said, ”because the most important thing is staying alive. There’s been a lot of pandemics like this throughout history that have killed a lot of people. It’s killed a lot of people already. This is bigger than me, this is bigger than boxing, bigger than sports. So when the world gets back right, again, then we’ll talk about entertaining the customers and the fans.”

Despite his observations about the current state of the sport, Fury still had his opinions regarding his potential heavyweight opponents. Fury still feels that Wilder — regardless of the results of their second fight — is still more of a threat to him than Joshua.

“One-hundred percent, Joshua’s not dangerous, at all. He’s like a big cuddly baby,” Fury said.

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“Why would I be a believer when he got knocked spark out by Andy Ruiz? A last-minute replacement opponent … who turned up 300 pounds or whatever it is, he didn’t train, and Anthony Joshua couldn’t do any good with him in the rematch,” Fury said.

“He doesn’t have anything, he couldn’t hold a candle to ‘The Gypsy King,'” he said. “There’s only one heavyweight out there, there’s only one undefeated world champion. They’ve all fallen by the wayside, the fellow that hasn’t gotten beat, has knocked them out! I’m the only one! Me — ‘The Gypsy King,’ unbeatable, the untouchable, unbreakable champion.”

Both the state of the world and current negotiations have thrown many elements of Fury’s life into uncertainty. But one thing the 31-year-old Fury made clear, despite previously stating that he had just two bouts left in his career.

“I’m going to fight on till I’m 40 years old,” Fury said. “I’ve been thinking about it, and there isn’t much else to do anyways. So yeah, I may as well keep fighting. I don’t see anyone out there that can challenge me. I just flattened the best one out there. The toughest opponent out there is Deontay Wilder, and we all saw what happened to him the last time out.”

“I’m not really interested in boxing right now, because the most important thing is staying alive. There’s been a lot of pandemics like this throughout history that have killed a lot of people. It’s killed a lot of people already. This is bigger than me, this is bigger than boxing, bigger than sports.”

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Armed with the “Kronk style” under the direction of Javan “Sugar” Hill, Fury implemented a much more aggressive attack that was brutally effective against Wilder in the rematch. Fury’s versatility makes him the man to beat in the heavyweight division.

“Me and ‘Sugar’ Hill had a good relationship going into camp, we worked on knocking him out, that was it. That’s the ‘Kronk style’ — knocking people out,” Fury said.

“As you’ve seen over the years, knocking people out, knocking people out. What I said from day one: that I’m going to knock Deontay Wilder out. Nobody believed it, it was what it was. I’m not trying to make people believe us. I couldn’t care if they believe, or don’t. But the thing is I’m beating them, something I’ve done for 12 years as a professional.”

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Boxing review of 2019: Joshua, Ruiz, Wilder, Inoue and Taylor light up year

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Boxing review of 2019: Joshua, Ruiz, Wilder, Inoue and Taylor light up year

Steve Bunce and Mike Costello have travelled the world calling the biggest fights for BBC Sport in 2019

There were fights that thrilled, fights that never happened and fights that simply stunned us.

“What a year. We may say we didn’t get this or that – but what a year,” says BBC Radio 5 Live Boxing’s Steve Bunce.

Aside from a June upset fit for the boxing ages, 2019 served up more class from Ukraine, more power-punching from a certain American heavyweight and more general brilliance by a Japanese fighter who found a novel way to combat blurred vision.

Here, BBC boxing correspondent Mike Costello and his 5 Live side-kick Bunce hand out their awards for the year, and go one further as they name their pound-for-pound top five global fighters.

5 Live Boxing with Costello & Bunce: End of year awards

An ‘ultimate’ round of the year

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Watch: Costello’s brilliant commentary of Joshua shock

Costello:There was round four when Errol Spence Jr beat Shawn Porter in Los Angeles in September – a cracking fight – and in that round you could see the sheer amount of talent. But in Anthony Joshua’s defeat by Andy Ruiz Jr in June – the up-and-down nature of it – it’s safe to say Joshua could have been stopped at the end of the third round and I don’t think there would have been any complaints.

Bunce:At the end of that third round, the referee panicked and there was absolute bedlam. This is the ultimate round, a round that will live on as long as we are standing at microphones.

Fight of the year – home and away

Josh Taylor (right) won two world titles in 2019

Bunce:It’s almost like Joshua’s defeat by Ruiz is a different category. Katie Taylor’s victory over Delfine Persoon in June was the greatest women’s boxing contest, while Josh Taylor’s win over Regis Prograis for two of the world super-lightweight belts in London in October was like some sort of synchronised, sped-up sparring session with two men at their peak.

Then there is Luis Ortiz and Deontay Wilder in their rematch in Las Vegas in November. For six rounds, Wilder doesn’t land a glove and he is starting to panic. When he comes out for the seventh, I thought it might be too late. Then you realise he is measuring. He is the most enigmatic heavyweight champion in history as he divides experts.

I will go for Taylor and Prograis at home and overseas I am sticking with Wilder’s knockout of Ortiz because of all the elements attached to it.

Japan’s Naoya Inoue (left) won a second world title at bantamweight by beating Nonito Donaire

Costello:Because of the upset nature of it, Joshua-Ruiz has to qualify as one of the fights of the year. Then there is Naoya Inoue’s win over Nonito Donaire in Japan in November. Inoue picked up two of the world bantamweight titles and I’m not sure there is a better fight.

Inoue announces afterwards that a single left hook in the second caused him blurred vision. If you look at the early part of the third round he is covering his right eye with his right glove to have single vision. He announces he got the idea from Donaire, who did the same against Guillermo Rigondeaux in 2013.

Fight of the year at home for me was Prograis against Taylor and abroad it has to be Donaire against Inoue.

The ‘lost’ disappointments of 2019

Golovkin and Alvarez shared a draw in 2017 before the Mexican (right) landed a win in 2018

Costello:A fight not happening is my disappointment of the year as I felt we would get a trilogy fight between Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin. These two men bring something out of one another and we’ve talked about the quality of their punching and resilience when Alvarez landed a win after their first draw.

Bunce:Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury’s rematch was lost in 2019. When we left Los Angeles after their first draw in 2018, that rematch was nailed on, so that’s my disappointment of the year.

‘After timer’ of the year – when we got it wrong…

Costello:I thought James DeGale still had enough left to beat a young, fresh Chris Eubank Jr when they met in February. I could hardly have been more wrong.

Bunce:No-one said after Ruiz weighed in in Saudi Arabia that he had been at the fridge door for months and had no chance against Anthony Joshua in their December rematch. I wish I had said what I was feeling, that he had no chance and would have his head jabbed off. I got that completely wrong.

Fighter of the year

Joshua lost to Andy Ruiz Jr on 1 June but regained three of the world heavyweight titles by beating the Mexican

Bunce:I am going to do Inoue, not just because of the Donaire win for two titles. In May, he also took on Emmanuel Rodriguez – a man we liked, a man we had seen – and he blew him away inside two rounds. He destroyed a guy who was unbeaten.

For British fighter of the year, I have gone Joshua for coming back from that defeat in New York and handling it all with the dignity he has.

Costello:I will take some shifting in my choice of overseas fighter of the year because of one single win. I think it was the best single performance by any world champion this year, when Artur Beterbiev beat Oleksandr Gvozdyk for two world titles at light-heavyweight in October with a systematic breakdown. It was brilliant how he upped the pace round by round.

Joshua has in the end beaten a man he should have beaten first time around but I just think in terms of the quality of two performances in beating Ivan Baranchyk to win a world title and then Prograis to land another in one of the fights of the year, that’s why my vote goes to Taylor for home boxer.

The best in the world after 2019

Lomachenko has held world titles in three weight divisions and beat British fighters Anthony Crolla and Luke Campbell in 2019

Costello:1. Vasyl Lomachenko 2. Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez 3. Naoya Inoue 4. Artur Beterbiev 5. Terence Crawford.

Bunce:1. Vasyl Lomachenko 2. Naoya Inoue 3. Artur Beterbiev 4. Deontay Wilder 5. Teofimo Lopez

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Boxing: Deontay Wilder rages after Dillian Whyte’s failed drugs test

& # 39; Shame on him & # 39 ;: Deontay Wilder is raging after Dillian Whyte's failed drug test in a week in which two boxers died of injuries sustained in the ring

Deontay Wilder has talked about Dillian Whyte & # 39; s recent failed drug test

He says this is the worst thing that can happen to boxing & # 39; after two boxers died

He also believes that current penalties for perpetrators are not harsh enough

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Published: 22:30 BST, July 26, 2019 | Updated: 22:38 BST, July 26, 2019

Deontay Wilder fluctuated between anger and despair over Dillian Whyte & # 39; s drug test, but the most pervasive dagger to the heart of the matter was corrosive.

& # 39; I can't wait to hear the excuse & # 39 ;, said the heavyweight world champion during a stop visit to London . "Will it be an energy drink this time? Shame on him. & # 39;

The contempt dripped more freely than the sweat when he preached the evil of steroids to young boxers at the historic boxing club Fitzroy Lodge.

Deontay Wilder raged against Dillian Whyte after the failed heavy weight drug test

Dillian Whyte tested positive for three banned substances that were not known for a week created

& # 39; That's what is now is going on & # 39 ;, he added. "They are trying to find a trick to pick out of the bag."

That was Wilder & # 39; s reason why Whyte failed to test up to three banned substances that were not made public for a week, including the Saturday night of his now potentially tarnished victory over Oscar Rivas.

Whyte & # 39; s lawyers demanded a hearing that afternoon to call for testing his B-monster, to which Wilder said: & we all know that B-monsters always come back the same. He knew what he was doing. They all do it. Do they think they can get away with it? They have probably had the wrong cycle.

& # 39; They say that there were only small traces in the test, but that's three times as many as he had lasted how long he was there? & # 39;

He said it & # 39; The worst that can happen to boxing in a week when two boxers have died & # 39;

Wilder considered the failed test as: & # 39; The worst thing that can happen to boxing in a week when two boxers have died of injuries in the ring. & # 39;

That referred to the tragedies that befell Russian and Argentinian after weekend battles. That made Wilder even more indignant about the Whyte test and the hearing & # 39; a cover-up & # 39 ;.

Neither the WBC, whose small belt and mandatory position to challenge Wilder, were at stake, nor the opponent was told about the results. Our American visitor says: "It is not only wrong but disgusting not to tell Rivas that he fought a man who had just tested positive for PED's. He was going to put his life on the line against someone who put things in his body, making him even more at risk.

"I understand the needs of people to make money and feed their families. But we have the right to enter the ring, convinced that the other man has done nothing to give himself an advantage that increases the risk of even more serious harm to those of us who risk our lives to entertain others. & # 39;

Dillian Whyte defeated Oscar Rivas in the O2 Arena for the WBC Interim Heavyweight Title

Van Whyte & # 39; s previous two-year suspension for a failed test he unknowingly took in a drug, Wilder repeated: & # 39; A two-day culprit . Shame on him. & # 39;

With Whyte certainly losing his mega-dollar world title shot at Wilder and face suspension unless the B-monster indemnifies him, Wilder says: & # 39; I don't feel sorry for him. He had been crying for years about not getting a shot. Then he finally gets the obligation to try to raise himself to the top. They all know what they are doing. I was looking forward to beating him, but it seems like a ban. If so, it must be long. The six months (as imposed on Jarrell Miller before his broken fight with Anthony Joshua) is not nearly enough. Try years And if he does it again – three strikes and life. & # 39;

& # 39; Shame on you, & # 39; said Wilder, who says that the ban on offenders is now close enough

Wilder, defending his title in a rematch against Luis Ortiz this fall for a second fight with Tyson Fury, Joshua advises not to try to avenge his upset loss of his titles to Andy Ruiz Jr.

. # 39; It's not the end to lose, but it's partly how you lose, he stopped that night, spitting out his gums after the last knockdown was part of a body language log that tells you he no longer wanted to be there He needs a warm-up to rebuild his confidence. "

That said, the Bronze B omber shouted his trademark "Bomb Squad" and was on his way to a warm evening in London.

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Anthony Joshua puts his WBO, WBA, IBF titles on the line in this weekend’s Heavyweight headliner, with Alexander Povetkin playing challenger. The matchup is splitting fan opinion, with some respecting the threat of Povetkin, a squat, dangerous top contender, while others merely expect a one-way beatdown from the champ. However you subscribe, this looks like a solid night of action overall thanks to a promising undercard.   Joshua vs Povetkin The Fighters Joshua (21-0, 20 KO) is the betting favorite here. He’s bigger, has the edge in pedigree and versatility, and just seems like the more rounded fighter. With all that rocket-fuelled career momentum, five title defenses and a career-defining KO of Wladimir Klitschko, you cannot doubt who the A-side is. One issue threatening to derail the AJ train, according to some, is that the British superstar may be overlooking Russia’s Povetkin (34-1, 24 KO). Personally, I don’t see that at all. Joshua is too mindful about his business to underestimate this aggressive, spirited puncher, and even appears to have shed some bulk in training, perhaps to help out-manoeuvre Povetkin’s bullish assaults. Aged 39, Povetkin is eleven years older than Joshua, standing at 6’ 2” with a 75” wingspan, giving away 4 inches in height and 7 in reach. He’s also yet to beat what you’d call a genuine world-beater, plus he’s got three times as many miles on the clock as Joshua (224 rounds versus 77). These are facts too loud to tune out. Another talking point is that the European-level David Price managed to rock and almost drop Povetkin last March. And there’s also all that ugly business with Povetkin failing doping tests that severed meetings with Deontay Wilder and Bermanine Stiverne. It’s a lot in the minus column for Povetkin. So why ‘could’ it be a very bad idea to write off the Russian? Well, there’s no getting around what the paper tells us, and all those cynics may well be absolutely right about Povetkin being merely a gap-filler till WBC champ Deontay Wilder shows up. But a fighter’s record can only reveal so much.   Povetkin: More Than Meets the Eye? In the ring, Povetkin remains strong, wily, and possesses fight-ending power, along with that gnarly, warrior spirit, even when things aren’t going his way. He’s a former titlist and, like Joshua, a Gold Olympian (Athens 2004). Povetkin’s best wins include those over Ruslan Chagaev (UD 12), Marco Huck (MD 12), Manuel Charr (KO 7), Carlos Takam (TKO 10) and Marisz Wach (TKO 12), among a few other solid contender/fringe-level foes, plus a couple of shopworn veterans. Not much gold, granted, but when you consider today’s Heavyweight front-runners – and even the records of its champions – Povetkin’s slate isn’t too far behind the likes of, well, anyone. The only problem: Povetkin is missing that one ‘career-defining victory’ over a truly legitimate, recognized name. The closest thing he has is a lopsided – yet notably gutsy – points defeat to Wladimir Klitschko back in 2013. However, while going the distance with a future Hall-of-Famer like Wladimir is a victory in itself, it remains true that Povetkin couldn’t effectively deal with the height, range and mobility of ‘Dr Steelhammer’. So, naturally the cynics are going to say: Povetkin couldn’t handle a 6’ 6”, 37-year-old Klitschko, so how can he possibly handle a 6’ 6”, 28-year-old Joshua? The naysayers have a good point there. Despite Povetkin’s ranking – No.3 in BB’s Heavyweight Top 10 – he really does seem out of his depth in that regard. With all that said, I still consider Povetkin to be a live threat tonight. While there’s nothing overly fancy about Povetkin’s footwork, he does know how to cut the distance quickly and unleash that ferocious left hook and overhand right, making the most of his compact, stocky frame. And there’s knockout power behind those shots. Throw in that tenacious, do-or-die work ethic and it becomes hard to simply write Povetkin off as some unworthy no-hoper. Right now, I’d say he represents one of Joshua’s Top 5 toughest tests to date. Based on Povetkin’s experience and recent outings, I’d put him in the Top 4, behind Klitschko and hanging somewhere around the level of Joseph Parker and Dillian Whyte (maybe a bit better or worse than those guys). As for the age factor, I’m not entirely convinced that Povetkin is over the hill, or in any serious decline. In fact, before people started attacking his ‘absurd’ 39 years of existence, I hadn’t much thought about it. Heavyweights tend to have more good years in the game than their smaller counterparts, and this seems to be true with Povetkin. If age really is a problem, however, a fight of this nature is more than likely going to highlight it.   Joshua vs Povetkin: The Verdict Nobody was clamouring for this fight, but who can reasonably – and I mean ‘reasonably’ – kick up a fuss about Joshua facing a top-ranked contender? Maybe the fight’s over quickly, maybe there’s some unexpected drama, but whatever happens I’m fine with the initial matchmaking. We have to remember that, once Wilder negotiations had broken down, there was hardly any other marketable options left for Joshua. With Wilder and Tyson Fury in talks for their December clash, they were out of the picture, as were Joseph Parker and Dillian Whyte (both Joshua victims before they fought in August). Luis Ortiz was available but, despite Joshua-Ortiz sounding exciting enough, the combination of being 39-years-old and having been dramatically stopped by Wilder (in March) would’ve no doubt still angered boxing’s harshest critics. That only leaves Dominic Breazeale (another Joshua victim) in the Heavyweight Top 10, followed by Jarrell Miller and Adam Kownacki (two unbeaten, green prospects). So really there was only ever Povetkin in town. As far as Joshua vs Povetkin predictions, I’ve got to back the bigger, rangier man, Joshua. He’s yet to take his eye off the ball, and it’s highly doubtful he’s about to now, especially when a legacy-defining fight looms (perhaps in April 2019). Appearing leaner than we’re used to seeing, I expect a trimmer, just-out-of-range Joshua to give Povetkin problems, ones that keep building round by round. If Povetkin can’t break the distance barrier, it’s going to be a hard, hard night for the Russian, and it will probably be game over by the mid-to-late rounds. Should he manage to hang tough, slip inside and make things gnarly, shaking Joshua’s rhythm, he may find success in spots. But I just can’t see him doing enough to spring 2018’s biggest upset. Prediction: Anthony Joshua by KO 8   How do you see Joshua vs Povetkin playing out tonight? Is this a bonafide walk in the park for AJ? Or does the planet’s No.1 consensus Heavyweight need to be poised and dialled in for what could be a tougher than expected clash?

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