Tyson Fury is set to step back into the ring this Friday, but if you are hoping to catch the former heavyweight champ in action, you are out of luck. His fight against former world championship contender Mariusz Wach in Pattaya, Thailand, will not be available via broadcast or streaming. Yeah, you read that right.
The “Tune-Up” Nobody Can See
Fury is taking this fight as a direct response to Anthony Joshua deciding to take his own tune-up. Joshua is slated to fight Kristian Prenga on Saturday, his first time back in the ring since he was involved in a tragic car accident in Nigeria that killed two of his friends. While Joshua should handle Prenga fairly easily, Prenga holds a 20-1 record with his only loss coming way back in his fifth career fight. Wach, on the other hand, is rolling into this fight with a 3-7 record in his last ten outings. This isn’t exactly a high-stakes return, is it? Wach’s career peak was challenging Wladimir Klitschko for the unified heavyweight title back in 2012, a night where he only managed to win a single round on one of three official scorecards. Since then, Wach’s record stands at a less than stellar 12-13, with a list of losses that includes Alexander Povetkin, Martin Bakole, Dillian Whyte, Arslanbek Makhmudov, Moses Itauma, and even Fury’s own cousin, Hughie Fury.
The Mega-Fight Everyone Wants, But Might Not Get
Fury’s last “return” was in April, when he beat Makhmudov by wide decision, ending a retirement that followed back-to-back losses to Oleksandr Usyk, which were the first two losses of his entire career. Now, his attention is supposedly on Anthony Joshua, a fight that has been teased for years. Netflix has even been running ads for Joshua vs. Fury. The catch? The fight still does not have a date or location. While London makes sense, event curfews there apparently clash with Netflix wanting to stream it during American prime time. In typical Fury fashion, he just recently cast major doubt on the Joshua fight happening at all. He even dismissed the idea of attending Joshua vs. Prenga for a post-fight face-off, saying, “I’m going home. I’ve got about as much interes”.
So, while we wait to see if Fury can handle Wach in a fight we will never see, the real question remains: will we ever actually get the Fury vs. Joshua showdown? With Fury himself making noise and location issues popping up, that dream fight feels more uncertain than ever.
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Originally reported by CBS Sports.
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