Show Fury vs Ngannou Was The Best Option?

Tyson Fury’s Promoter Frank Warren insists that Ngannou was Fury’s best option. Was it, really?

Fury-Ngannou seems to be a gigantic financial event, critics consider it not a serious sports competition

Frank Warren, owner of the promoter Queensberry Promotions, insists that Francis Ngannou, the former UFC heavyweight kingpin – but a boxing rookie – was the best available option for WBC World champion Tyson Fury.

Fury and Ngannou will meet on October 28 in Saudi Arabia in a highly anticipated “crossover” bout that will be contested in with the rules of professional boxing, although Fury’s title will not be at stake.

The announcement of the fight generated controversy in the boxing world in what is supposed to be the latest installment in a long series of fights that will pit a boxer against a mixed martial arts fighter in a boxing match.

Historically, the boxer is the one who wins in those events.

For boxing fans, the fight was perhaps more of a lukewarm. While Fury-Ngannou appears to be a mammoth financial event, critics consider it not a serious sporting contest.

In Fury’s case, the problem is compounded by the fact that he cannot reach an agreement with unified heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk (WBA, WBO, IBF) for the undisputed heavyweight championship, despite multiple efforts.

The two camps made conflicting accusations regarding the reason for the breakdown of negotiations.

In the face of controversy, Warren adamantly insisted that his team actually tried to make fights not only with Usyk, but also with former champions Andy Ruiz and Anthony Joshua, but to no avail.

“What can you do?” Warren says.

We’ve been trying to make credible title defenses for Fury.

“First of all, it has to make business sense, you can’t have Ruiz saying you want $20 million and that’s the one coming here, so that It’s a dead duck.

“Also, fighting for the title doesn’t seem like what the guys want to do.

“Joshua would much rather have a warm-up fight with a guy Tyson has beaten than fight for the WBC title. on a 60/40 basis,” Warren said in conversation with SencondsOut.

“Think of all the nonsense they come up with as excuses, we went down that path last December.

We wasted time on it.

“A person from Joshua’s camp was honest about it and said that he never thought it would happen,” he said.

“If we had known we wouldn’t waste time on it. What can we do?

“The fight that everyone wants to see, including us, including Tyson because he called him and made the offer and they accepted, was Usyk.

But they walked away because they thought they were walking away towards bigger and better things.

Now they are where they are and we are where we are,” Warren emphasized.