Looks like a proposed summer fight between WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury and former unified champion Andy Ruiz is off the table, reportedly due to Ruiz’ financial demands. Fury could still could potentially face Zhilei Zhang provided Joe Joyce, who recently activated a rematch clause, will step aside.
Earlier this year, talks fell through for a match between Fury and WBA/IBF/WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk, although that fight may still take place in December in Saudi Arabia as part of a potential doubleheader of Fury-Usyk and Anthony Joshua vs. Deontay Wilder.
The problem with Ruiz no matter what the financial demands were are with his discipline in training. Ruiz was unpredictable with his performances depending on his focus in training. I do admire Usyk putting Fury on the spot over donating some of his purse to Ukraine should they fight. Fury pipes down once Usyk said he will take less cash for the fight. Now all the sudden, the fight is in jeopardy. LOL… Now, the talks begin for another fight in December. Good grief….. Fury needs to quit blowing hot air and split a purse to make the fight happen.
What Fury does with his money is his business. So tired of all these Ukrainians trying to shake everybody down.
WillisLV – This Ukrainian is will to take a 30% purse split, not shaking anyone down, but willing to fight, unlike Fury you are an idiot.
I agree. This diva-“A”side behavior has gotten out of control. A well trained Ruiz is a nightmare for anyone in the top 10 and he could end up winning, but that’s a big if. In Fury’s eyes, perhaps an opponent asking for a fair share is too much. He needs to s#1t or get off the pot. An active heavyweight division with at least 5 good fighters is traditionally great for the sport and these people are wasting time. As of right now, they are going down as “what-could-have-beens”.
F Ukraine. They have stolen enough Money already…
Akhenten Amarna: F ‘en Russian troll you are – Ukraine defends themselves against an invader and your hate is towards those being invaded – Troll
If no Ruiz and no Zhang…. Fury – Bakole? Fury – Wallin 2??? Frank Sanchez would be good but, unfortunately, I heard he was fighting Chris Arreola.
Lucie
please no Arreola. but he is probably the right price and level of competition for Fury
No no, not for Fury! Frank Sanchez is the one, reportedly, fighting Chris Arreola.
Lucie
just as bad….
I believe there are plenty of fighters that willingly would step on the plate to face Fury (Hrgovic, Parker, Otto Wallin, Jared Anderson, Sanchez and more) but the problem is Fury and his crazy demands. Ruiz is an exception and we don’t know how much he was offered or maybe he is overpricing himself, but the truth is that boxing is fine with out Fury.
WTF is going on with Ruiz!
He’s wasting his potential!
He needs to fight the big names in order to keep himself in contention and stop his prima donna attitude by demanding BIG $$$ (that ruined Mikey Garcia). I think he would have given Fury some problems maybe even scored the upset, unlikely from what I saw against Arreola, and risen his stock even more.
He can worry about making bigger money after he’s champion.
I think Usyk has some people in the Heavyweight division pretty nervous.. they don’t even know what to do. Just fight the guy already. They do this for a living.. what gives
Joyce should try and get a deal to step aside and fight the winner
Not sure how much money Andy wanted but it’s obvious he had zero chance against a giant like Tyson Fury…
Arturo,
we will see Ruiz back in action 2024/2025
lol
Fury is an irritating knob. Does he actually want to carry on fighting?
I heard Ruiz wanted a container load of snickers
Let’s see Daniel Dubois fight Tyson Fury. He has the WBA regular. Same promoter.
These boxers today are over-pricing themselves out of fights, rather than be willing to fight the best. Such a different world from the risk taking eras of boxing from the 50’s-early 2000’s. After Haymon came along, it was only about the money, and because of this, I lost interest in boxing.
NO fights made……..
I like how this is worded as Ruiz’s fault, when the reality is probably that Tyson had his usual hissy fit that someone came to the table asking for a larger share of the purse than he thinks he’s entitled to.
Why is Fury catching hell on here? He’s the linear, true undisputed champion. He can fight who he pleases and dictate the terms because that’s his right. Those pewter, gold-plated, sanctioning body straps mean nothing. Same goes for that worthless Ring Magazine belt, which was rendered meaningless back when they first went out of business in 1989.
The US has given Ukraine 115 Billion over the last 15 months. Why should Fury give them a nickel? Let Usyk do what Joe Louis did and donate his purses to his country’s war effort or better yet, join the military like Joe did.
Usyk has the WBA’s mandatory in DuBois, the WBO’s mandatory in Zhang and Hrgovic for the IBF to fight if he wants to continue holding their belts. He evidently doesn’t mind paying all of those crooks their sanctioning fees.
The WBC has Wilder at #1 and besides no one wanting to see a fourth Fury-Wilder fight, I’m not convinced Wilder still even wants to fight anymore since PBC has run out of hand-picked bums to take dives for him. Why isn’t Wilder calling Usyk out? We all know why.
For as long as Fury is champion, whether anyone likes it or not, he can do as he pleases.
Wilder would get rendered flat on the canvas against usyk.
The sooner Tyson leaves Boxing the better for the sport-He is an awkward boring palooka who does nothing for the sport—
Sick of Fury. Let him fight Chisora again or better yet switch to wrasslin or just retire..
Anyone defending Fury Spence and Bud are anti boxing. These frauds were built by Floyd Mayweather and are denying true hardcore fight fans historical boxing truth. Boxing is getting laughed at because the weakest fans in all sports (boxing fans) except and defend these imposters. They are called fanboys.