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While Tyson Fury aims to solidify his next opponent, his younger brother will beat him back in the ring.
BoxingScene.com has learned that Tommy Fury has been booked to fight on the undercard of the recently announced Floyd Mayweather-Deji exhibition fight on November 13 at the Coca-Cola Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. An opponent for the unbeaten light heavyweight is being finalized, with Paul Bamba, a Puerto Rican light heavyweight based in New York City, as the favorite to get the assignment.
The timing would put Manchester’s Fury (8-0, 4KOs) two weeks away from the next fight of his old rival outside the ring Jake Paul (5-0, 4KOs), who fights Anderson Silva on October 29 in Gila. River Arena in Glendale, Arizona. Paul and Fury were scheduled to meet twice, last December 18 in Tampa and rescheduled plans for August 6 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Fury withdrew from both events, citing injury and illness from not being able to make it to Tampa and then visa issues that prevented him from entering the US earlier this summer.
Only one fight has followed for Fury during that period, a six-round points victory over Daniel Bocianski on April 23 at Wembley Stadium. The fight took place on the undercard of his older brother, Tyson Fury (32-0-1, 23KOs) who defended his lineal/WBC heavyweight championship in a sixth-round knockout of Dillian Whyte atop a BT Sport Box Office/ESPN+ Pay- Per View Event.
Bamba (5-2, 4KOs) will fight for the fourth time this year, albeit in the first fight of his career outside of the Americas. The 33-year-old light heavyweight, who is promoted by Rising Star Promotions, only turned pro last January, fighting exclusively in Mexico during his first year and fighting just once in the US, a shock split decision loss. in four rounds. to Derrick Vann on August 20 in Atlantic City.
The setback was backed up by separate victories in Colombia, including a second-round knockout of Francisco Morelos, who did not win, on September 8 in Santiago de Tolu.
Fury, 23, is hoping to take on Paul. The two have enjoyed a contentious rivalry via social media and their own press conferences, although they have yet to take it into the ring. Such hopes were restored over the weekend, as the rest of Paul’s MVPs squad were in Fury’s hometown of Manchester, England, in support of seven-division champion Amanda Serrano (43-2-1). , 30KOs) who unified the WBC/IBF/WBO/Ring Magazine featherweight titles in a ten-round victory over Sarah Mahfoud.
A conversation between Fury and Paul was captured on camera after the fight. Paul was in training camp and couldn’t make the trip when he contacted Serrano via FaceTime following the Puerto Rican superstar’s latest win, when she handed the phone to the surprise but welcomed the guest into the your team’s locker room.
“Hey, what’s up Jake?” Fury laughed. “I was hoping to see you here tonight!”
“Tommy, let’s make the fight happen, mate,” Paul insisted during the hilarious exchange. “Let’s make it happen”.
For now, Fury’s next fight will take place in Dubai. His yet-to-be-announced location on the Mayweather-Deji card is the first known slot on the card. The main event was only confirmed on Monday, just 30 hours after Mayweather (50-0, 27KOs) faced Japanese MMA star Mikuru Asakura, whom he knocked out in the second round of their exhibition Saturday night at Saitama, Japan.
Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox
