Two questions face the Gypsy King after his star turn on boxing’s biggest night in years: is he a standalone attraction in the United States? And does he even need to be?
The early returns from last weekend’s heavyweight championship tilt between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder have suggested a money-spinning success commensurate to the breathless promotional heft behind it.
Fury’s shocking beatdown of the unbeaten American, which saw him both capture the World Boxing Council’s heavyweight title and reduce the sport’s most feared bogeyman to a lamentable puddle of excuses, reportedly generated between 800,000 and 850,000 pay-per-view buys at $75 a pop (even accounting for the extraordinarily high piracy rate) and surpassed the 1999 rematch between Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield as the richest ever live gate for a heavyweight fight in Nevada.
Written by Bryan Armen Graham
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/29/tyson-fury-american-heavyweight-future under the title “The unsinkable Tyson Fury took America for a night. Can he keep it?”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
