If you’ve been a distant observer of Tyson Fury’s efforts to secure a fight before the end of the year, you can be forgiven for any excitement over his promoter’s claim last week that a ‘game-changer’ of a bout was incoming. You can even be forgiven for taking the word ‘efforts’ at face value. If you’ve been following the saga closely, however, you’ll have felt the plummet of your stomach, knowing full well what was coming: Fury vs Ngannou.
This ‘game-changer’, promised by Frank Warren, may yet mean ‘game over’ for Fury’s legacy. The WBC heavyweight champion will travel to Saudi Arabia in October, not to take on his counterpart Oleksandr Usyk – who is unbeaten like the Briton and holds the unified belts – but rather to box a mixed martial artist. It is a vacuous fight in a vacuous space.
