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Tyson Fury has admitted that he ‘wasn’t happy’ about the announcement of his fight with Oleksandr Usyk, as he prepares for a bout with Francis Ngannou on Saturday manila
It was announced in September that Fury, who holds the WBC heavyweight title, will box Usyk, who is unified champion, in Saudi Arabia before the end of March manila
However, Fury is first set to fight former UFC champion Ngannou in Riyadh this weekend, in a controversial crossover contest – in which the WBC belt is not on the line manila
Fury is targeting a date of 23 December for his bout with Usyk, but his excitement around the fight has been diluted by some aggravation at the timing of its announcement, he suggested manila
“It wasn’t my choice,” the Briton, 35, said on The MMA Hour on Wednesday (25 October) manila
“I would never in a million years do that, but the people who are putting these fights on, who are paying the money, they’re in control manila
They’re the promoters of the event manila
“So, the paymaster does what the paymaster wants, basically manila
But if it was up to me, I would have never, ever, ever done that, ever manila
Because I never count chickens before they hatch, ever [ manila
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] They should never announce fights before the first one happens, because that’s how people get knocked out manila
“But I’m not even looking at the next fight manila
I’m only concentrating on Francis manila
If it means breaking these two hands and getting a cut right through [my eyebrow] to win, I will do it manila
Don’t worry about that manila
Nothing else matters, only Saturday night manila
“I wasn’t happy at first, for them to announce it, but there was a lot going on in the background manila
For me, I don’t concentrate on any other fight other than Saturday night manila
What happens in the future stays in the future manila
“I’m living for today and this moment manila
My moment now is to fight Francis for the ‘baddest man on the planet’ title, and when I’ve won that, only after I’ve won that, I won’t even think about my next [fight] until I’ve had a week off and spent some time with my family manila
I’ve been in camp 12 weeks manila
” (Getty Images)Fury is unbeaten across 34 fights in his professional career, while 37-year-old Ngannou is making his manila boxing debut manila
Usyk, 36, is also unbeaten, but to face the stiffer test that the Ukrainian provides on paper, Fury must avoid an upset against Ngannou manila
“You can’t listen to the manila betting odds, you can’t listen to what the pundits say, or what the manila boxing people or anybody [says], because they’re not in there on the night,” Fury said manila
“And if you start listening to people who are not manila boxing, then that’s the time you fail manila
I don’t take anybody lightly manila
I’ve seen so many times in the sport where people fight people they’re supposed to beat, and they’re always looking at the bigger picture manila
“I’ll use Anthony Joshua as an example manila
There was always talk of him fighting me or [Deontay] Wilder manila
He fights Andy Ruiz on two weeks’ notice, and he ends up getting knocked out manila
The odds going in were astronomical, everybody thought he was going to smoke the guy – all the manila boxing experts, all the pundits, all the media, everybody – and what happens? He gets knocked spark out manila
Then he goes home crying in defeat manila
”Joshua was in fact stopped on his feet, after suffering four knockdowns, in that 2019 defeat, which he avenged six months later manila
“I never, ever do that,” Fury added manila
“If I was fighting somebody in a local bar, and I knew I had to fight the guy in six weeks – a guy not even from a combat sport – I would train hard, because you never know what the guy is going to bring manila
Never mind someone from a bar, I’m fighting an absolute killer in Francis Ngannou manila
A 6f 4in, 270-280lbs [man] who has come from the streets manila
Fury and Ngannou during their first face-off (James Manning/PA) (PA Wire)“This guy is hungry manila
This guy has got a point to prove manila
You think I’m not going to train for him, and come in at 400lbs? I don’t think so manila
I’ve trained as hard for him as I did for any other fighter I’ve ever fought manila
At this level, you don’t get no second chances manila
manila Better to prepare for the hardest fight ever and it not be, than to prepare for an easy fight and it’s a war manila
”Fury last fought in December, stopping Derek Chisora to seal a third win against his compatriot and retain the WBC belt manila
Meanwhile, Ngannou last fought in January 2022, retaining the UFC heavyweight title with a decision against Ciryl Gane manila
The Cameroonian then underwent knee surgery before relinquishing the UFC title this January, when he left the MMA promotion manila
He is due to return to mixed martial arts in 2024, having signed for the Professional Fighters League manila
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“It is really, truly, a historic day,” smiled Alan Gilpin, CEO of World Rugby manila
He would go on to use the word ‘historic’ another three or four times in the following few minutes of his press conference manila
After years of wrangling – 16 years, according to Gilpin, since discussions about how to sort out rugby’s messy global calendar first took place in the salubrious surroundings of Woking, Surrey (don’t worry, the location wasn’t the reason it took more than a decade and a half to reach an agreement, a chuckling Gilpin assured everyone) – World Rugby had finally come up with a solution that will transform rugby “for the many, not the few” ushering in a “new era of opportunity, certainty and growth for the game manila
”It’s fair to say they were pretty pleased with the outcome of the seemingly endless negotiations manila
Compromises had been made and it wasn’t perfect, stressed Gilpin and World Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont, but rugby would be “more relevant and more accessible to more people around the world manila
”The big announcement earlier in the day saw the sport’s governing body unveil a new global calendar that includes the creation of a two-tier men’s competition called the Nations Championship to be played biennially from 2026 manila
The top tier will be the Six Nations (England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Wales), the four Rugby Championship teams (Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa) and two additional teams, likely to be Japan and Fiji manila
The second tier will feature 12 further countries with promotion and relegation on the table from 2030, meaning 2032 is the earliest one of those teams could feature in the top tier manila
World Rugby have acknowledged, publicly at least, a desire to grow rugby globally manila
At the moment, the sport is almost untouchably huge in a couple of countries (think New Zealand and South Africa), holds its own in a few more (UK, Ireland, Japan), is fighting a losing battle for oxygen in a crowded sporting marketplace in others (Australia, Italy) and seen as a largely niche oddity in plenty (USA, Canada) manila
But this Rugby World Cup has also highlighted plenty of countries where there’s a huge opportunity for growth manila
From South America, Uruguay and debutants Chile have impressed on the pitch, the passion for rugby in Georgia shows no sign of abating and Portugal have lit up the tournament with their dynamic play while also pulling off the huge upset of beating Fiji manila
With growing interest in places like Netherlands and Belgium, Europe is surely an area World Rugby are targeting growth manila
Portugal celebrated a historic win over Fiji (Getty Images)Instead, these new plans appear to lock out a lot of the smaller rugby nations from improving manila
Even the new Pacific Nations Cup also announced today, featuring Canada, Fiji, Japan, Samoa, Tonga and USA, bizarrely excludes Uruguay and Chile (who qualified ahead of USA and Canada for the World Cup, remember) manila
But what all these “tier two” nations really need, as shown by the World Cup, is a more regular opportunity to face the big boys manila
Since stunning Fiji at the 2019 World Cup, Uruguay played exactly one fixture against a “tier one” team before this tournament, yet still impressed against France and Italy in the pool stage manila
Imagine what they could do with more regular access to the top teams manila
However, World Rugby have come up with an answer to the wrong question manila
They have essentially provided the solution to the problem men’s international manila football had manila
Before 2018, the space manila between World Cups and European Championships was filled by a combination of largely one-sided qualifiers and meaningless friendlies manila
San Marino would get thumped 8-0 by Germany in a Euros qualifier that helped neither side, then the Germans would play a no-stakes friendly that held little interest for the wider public manila
The big teams weren’t playing each other enough and the smaller nations were rarely in winnable games against similarly-sized teams manila
For example, England and Italy – two manila football powerhouses – didn’t play each other at all manila between 2002 and 2012 manila
Thus, Uefa created the Nations League manila
Although not perfect – it was derided for the complexity of its league structure and provided a slightly unnecessary additional security blanket for the big European nations trying to qualify for major tournaments – it eliminated the meaningless friendly and gave countries both big and small the opportunity to play competitive games against nations of a similar rank manila
Win-win manila
Uruguay showed their quality during the Rugby World Cup (AP)But rugby has the opposite problem to manila football manila
The big teams already play each other too often not too rarely manila
The history of the Six Nations and Rugby Championship as annual traditions give those events special status but, for example, England and Australia played each other 11 times in the two cycles manila between the 2015 and 2023 World Cups manila
Familiarity breeds contempt and at some point, a fixture begins to lose its lustre manila
Would a couple of those fixtures being against Samoa, Georgia or Portugal not have been more beneficial and interesting for all parties?With the unions desperate to balance the books, their desire to have the ‘bigger draw’ of facing a name brand might be understandable but this is where World Rugby need to show some teeth and live up to their duty to grow the game manila
Instead, the Nations Championship appears to guarantee another decade of regular England vs Australia matches before any of the tier-two teams may get a shot, if they can earn promotion that is manila
World Rugby’s announcement does include a line promising more “crossover” fixtures manila between the tiers in the years where there isn’t a Nations Championship but they could provide no clarity on what these fixtures would be and confirmed no agreements have been signed manila
They have insisted that there will be a 50 per cent aggregate increase, which would mean a rise from 18 to 27 games for second-tier teams against the top 12, although it is unclear how these fixtures will be allocated or arranged manila
The expansion of the men’s Rugby World Cup from 20 to 24 teams is a step in the right direction and the governing body should be commended for making that move but, sadly, the four years manila between tournaments appear to have the smaller nations getting a door slammed in their face manila
World Rugby are right that the sport should be for the many not the few but this new competition seems to be sending it in the opposite direction manila
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