By Allan Fox: WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury appeared to make fun of his alleged positive cocaine test by positing a photo-shop picture of himself as Tony Montana from the 1983 movie, “Scarface.” The photo that Fury has of himself is him sitting in front of a large pile of cocaine from the movie ‘Scarface.’
The character from the movie Tony Montana has had his face replaced by Fury’s in the Twitter photo. Fury allegedly tested positive in a Voluntary Anti-Doping Association (VADA) conducted test on September 22 for his October 29 rematch against Wladimir Klitschko. Fury pulled out of the fight on September 23 and his future in boxing remains uncertain.
The film ‘Scarface’ is about a rags to riches story about a Cuban refugee that ends in tragedy after he becomes a drug kingpin. His life quickly spins out of control from the cocaine until he’s shot to pieces in the end by a rival drug gang.
It’s nice that Fury is keeping his sense of humor through all of this, as he could potentially be stripped of his WBA and WBO heavyweight titles and has his boxing license revoked if he’s found to have tested positive for cocaine. According to VADA President Dr. Margaret Goodman, Fury failed the drug test on September 22. Fury can have his ‘B’ sample tested for drugs to clear himself. It’s unknown yet if Fury will elect to have his ‘B’ sample tested for the drug.
Fury will likely resume his boxing career at some point. There’s so much money there for Fury when he does return to the ring. It’s hard to imagine him not making a return at some point in the future to face the likes of Anthony Joshua, Wladimir Klitschko and Deontay Wilder. If Fury could come back for just those three fights, he could make a huge bundle and then walk away from the game quite a wealthy man. It would require discipline on Fury’s part for him to make it through training camps and come into his fights at 100 percent.
If Fury is not really focused and motivated when he returns to the sport, then he’ll likely lose to the first quality fighter he faces. In that case, Fury should look to take the biggest money fight available against Anthony Joshua if he’s still the IBF heavyweight champion. Joshua seems to be heading for fights against Wladimir Klitschko and Joseph Parker.
It’s going to be hard for Joshua to beat both of those fighters. Even if he does, Joshua will be pressured to fight Cuban Luis Ortiz. That would be arguably an even tougher fight than Klitschko or Parker, because Ortiz is the finished product already and is a southpaw. It’s not hard to imagine that Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn will have him sidestep Ortiz until he’s older and not the fighter he is today. It would be similar to how Golden Boy Promotions is having their fight Saul Canelo Alvarez sidestep Gennady “GGG” Golovkin.
Fury was declared “medically unfit” to fight. Presumably, Fury is going to need a medical clearance before he can continue his boxing career in the future. Just how long that’ll be is anyone’s guess. Hearn thinks Fury will never return to the ring. He wanted him to stick around long enough to fight Wladimir a second time, and then face Joshua. That might not happen if Hearn’s prediction comes true about Fury not returning to the sport.
Fury previously pulled out of a July rematch against Wladimir because of an ankle injury. The two fighters rescheduled for October 29, and then Fury pulled out of that fight too. Naturally, the 40-year-old Wladimir is angry about Fury twice pulling out of their rematches because he lost an entire year of his career.
Wladimir could face Joshua on November 26 or in December for one of Fury’s titles, but that remains to be seen. One or both of Fury’s titles will need to be stripped first from him, and then the sanctioning body will need to agree to put it up for grabs for Wladimir and Joshua to fight over. It would be a rush job if Wladimir fights Joshua on November 26, because there would be little time to complete the negotiations and then market the fight to the boxing public. For a fight of this magnitude, you need more than six weeks to get the most amount of hype and interest in it. Hearn and Wladimir will likely want more time to build the fight. Having it take place in December would be far better.
It would be nice if Fury could come back to the sport in the future after he gets his life together and takes care of all the stuff hanging over his head. The sport needs Fury, but they need him focused like he was before his fight against Wladimir last November. Fury came into that fight in top shape and highly motivated. He ended up out-boxing Wladimir to beat him by a 12 round unanimous decision to take his IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight titles in Dusseldorf, Germany. Fury beat Wladimir in front of his own German boxing fans in that fight, and he seemed to do it effortlessly like he never got out of 2nd gear.
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