John Fury tries to fight Jake Paul after his son Tommy booed in the exhibit
Tommy Fury took to the ring with his last-minute substitute, Rolly Lambert, in Dubai as part of Floyd Mayweather’s latest exhibition.
Dramatic weight and contract confusion leave him without a rival in pro play this afternoon, but the Global Titans organizers joined Lambert, the WBO Africa Champion, WBC and WBA Asian Cruiserweight Champion. It’s an exhibition that, in the end, doesn’t show much.
Lambert looked great for someone who found out he was fighting five or six hours ago. Fury says he had a full training camp with his brother Tyson, the reigning heavyweight champion of the world.
Despite the above, no punches were delivered for large parts of the match, including the last twenty seconds of some rounds, a significant portion of the 120 seconds.
The boxers were smiling, but it was hard to imagine many in the crowd joining them. In fact, midway through they broke out boos. It is under warranty. It happened again a round later, and then again at the end of the bout.
Jake Paul in the commentary is surreal, and maybe the Global Titan isn’t the idea for him to be the complete laughing stock of the fight from start to finish. He laughs at the idea of two rounds, the size of the gloves, and the respect shown among the fighters.
🗣 ‘This guy SUCKS’@jakepaulMy thoughts watching Tommy Fury live for the first time! 😂
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He taunted his potential opponent from the ring, and Fury returned with some screams of his own. Paul said ‘he thought he could really kill him’ if they got into a fight and then pretended to be asleep. His one word to describe the fight is ‘sh * t.’
After the fight, John Fury, Tommy’s father, took off his shirt in the ring, flexing his biceps and boxing while yelling at Jake Paul to fight him with his bare knuckles. Young Americans called him a shameful, fat, wretched old man.
🗣 ‘Your poor fat old man’@jakepaul and John Fury clash in the ring!
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Tommy Fury then joined in and yelled at him to get into the ring. Things almost escalate until they don’t.
Things are getting HOT between @jakepaul and @tommytntfury.#MayweatherDejipic.twitter.com/uQwxeXy9st
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In short, there is little to enjoy about it.