Tommy Fury will face Eddie Hall in a super-charged novelty boxing bout on June 13 in the main event of a Misfits Boxing card from Manchester, England, and says that he keeps driving forward because he wants to be a world champion.
How we’re supposed to think that spending the last three years fighting Jake Paul, KSI, a random club fighter in a six-rounder, and now Eddie Hall in a non-sanctioned bout is pushing him in that direction is a real puzzler, but he said it.
“The only thing that I haven’t achieved
in my life is being a world champion. So I think that is the thing that keeps me driving on,” he told DAZN cameras. “Financially making sure that we’re good-good, because I’ve got another kid on the way now. And that’s it, everything’s just for them. You want to make sure they’re financially secure to the best way you can.”
The “financially for the kids” part is something anyone can understand. But the “being a world champion” part should be heard as every bit as delusional and absurd as when Jake Paul says it. Even with the last name, Tommy Fury has proven pretty conclusively, now at age 27, that he is neither serious enough about nor good enough at boxing to win a world title.
Fury (11-0, 4 KO) is just not a serious boxing prospect. Never really has been. He just has a serious boxing last name, and even that ties into one guy and not so much the other seven or 12 Furys who have tried their hand in the pro ranks, hoping the name can carry them.
Realistically, Tommy has proven to be a less ambitious version of the man he narrowly beat, Jake Paul. However ridiculous you may find Paul’s similar claims and statements, he got in there with Anthony Joshua. Tommy Fury has gotten in there with Kenan Hanjalic. These guys are not playing the same game.
I don’t usually do this, but there were a couple of user replies on DAZN’s Instagram post that made me chuckle enough to share them, and I think sum up what a lot of the reaction naturally will be here:
First, directed to Tommy himself: “Jesus, mate! I still haven’t achieved scoring the winning goal for Liverpool in the Champions League final! But that’s the thing that keeps me driving on! I’m 48 years of age! Ya never know! We could both achieve our dreams together!”
And a reply to that: “As long as you keep kicking that ball on the park with the kids, you and Tommy are literally doing the same thing to achieve that end goal.”
Still, I admit to having some curiosity about the Fury vs Hall fight, taken as what it is, and what it is is not serious boxing. I’ll tune in on June 13 just for the visual of seeing Fury combat a human refrigerator.
