Comments Thread For: Team Fury: Hughie Suffered Lower Back Injury, Not Medically Fit

[joe strong]

I wonder if they will go ahead with the event with a late replacement? I wonder if they will reschedule? I wouldn't if I was team Parker.

[KillaCamNZ]

I wonder if they will go ahead with the event with a late replacement? I wonder if they will reschedule? I wouldn't if I was team Parker.

David Higgins was on the radio this morning and got pressed pretty hard about the prospect of finding a replacement. Higgins said they have 3 or 4 candidates, and that a fill-in is "likely". The bloke interviewing him said "so we can expect a Parker fight then?" and David said "no, but it is more likely than unlikely."

Probably a 60-40 chance they'll dig someone up.

[Madison Boxing]

Tweaked his back yesterday? According to the press release, it's been a "serious issue" for three weeks. Even though just days ago, Hughie was talking about being in great shape.

According to their timeline, he injured his back 5 weeks before the fight. Even though they said they would be in NZ 6 weeks beforehand. They were never here.

I've got some swampland to sell you dude. There's a difference between giving someone the benefit of the doubt, and being ******.

he was probably bluffing, its not a good idea to let opponents know of injuries. then he realised he had to call it off, it wasnt going to heal. just saying people are jumping to conclusions too quickly. cant go around accusing people of lying.

[joe strong]

David Higgins was on the radio this morning and got pressed pretty hard about the prospect of finding a replacement. Higgins said they have 3 or 4 candidates, and that a fill-in is "likely". The bloke interviewing him said "so we can expect a Parker fight then?" and David said "no, but it is more likely than unlikely."

Probably a 60-40 chance they'll dig someone up.

The WBO rankings...
1
Hughie Fury (Int-Cont.)
UK
2
Christian Hammer (WBO Europe)
GER
3
Jarrell Miller (NABO)
USA
4
Andy Ruiz
USA
5
Kubrat Pulev
BUL
6
Dominic Breazeale
USA
7
Dillian Whyte
JAM
8
Tom Schwarz (WBO Youth)
GER
9
Andriy Rudenko
UKR
10
Luis Ortiz
CUB
11
Andrey Fedosov
USA
12
Agit Kabayel
GER
13
Kyotaro Fujimoto
JPN
14
Razvan Cojanu
ROM
15
Zhilei Zhang (Oriental)

Conjanu, Zhang or Rudenko? I would like Hammer or Miller to take it but I don't know what kind of shape Miller is in. Hammer has been in camp for an upcoming fight against a blownup CW. Fujimoto also has a fight coming so maybe him... Zhang & Fujimoto are in the region & would never get a title shot so I wouldn't be surprised if it's either of them.

[BoxingFan85]

dont know why people are expecting hughie to fight with a bad back. its a legitimate reason for pulling out.

He might have injured it carrying the great Furry name.. lol

[TheCell8]

lol yea right. These guys are absolute frauds.

[KillaCamNZ]

The WBO rankings...
1
Hughie Fury (Int-Cont.)
UK
2
Christian Hammer (WBO Europe)
GER
3
Jarrell Miller (NABO)
USA
4
Andy Ruiz
USA
5
Kubrat Pulev
BUL
6
Dominic Breazeale
USA
7
Dillian Whyte
JAM
8
Tom Schwarz (WBO Youth)
GER
9
Andriy Rudenko
UKR
10
Luis Ortiz
CUB
11
Andrey Fedosov
USA
12
Agit Kabayel
GER
13
Kyotaro Fujimoto
JPN
14
Razvan Cojanu
ROM
15
Zhilei Zhang (Oriental)

Conjanu, Zhang or Rudenko? I would like Hammer or Miller to take it but I don't know what kind of shape Miller is in. Hammer has been in camp for an upcoming fight against a blownup CW. Fujimoto also has a fight coming so maybe him... Zhang & Fujimoto are in the region & would never get a title shot so I wouldn't be surprised if it's either of them.

Exactly my thoughts too buddy. My first thought scanning over the top 15 was Rudenko or Conjanu - they probably have the least to lose out of those options. Zhang would be interesting, although I don't know if he's going to leave the comforts of home - but you're right, he's probably not going to get a look at a world title any other way.

If I remember right, Fujimoto was lined up as an opponent for Parker a few years ago, but pulled out just before it was announced - so DUCO maybe have some bad blood with him still.

None of these options are exciting, which is a damn shame. But we can't expect a fight on two weeks notice to be any better than what was originally planned, I guess.

Quietly hoping for Miller to put his hand up, though.

[sicko]

[ShoulderRoll]

Jarrell Miller would be an awesome replacement.

[aboutfkntime]

Literally no one believes this

Everyone knew something was fishy when the WBO president had to practically force team fury to sign the contract on twitter

Who the **** has to be forced to sign a contract for a World title fight for millions of dollars?

......

The fury team that's who.

I guarantee that people will believe it

most likely a large section of a certain fanbase will accept it