Tommy Fury and Jake Paul have been trading verbal jabs for months. After being postponed twice, their fight is being staged in Saudi Arabia. The fight is the latest in a wave of high-profile sports and entertainment events staged in the Gulf nation.
The lead-up to Sunday’s fight in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, between Tommy Fury and Jake Paul looks as if it were ripped out of boxing’s oldest playbook.
“So, we had to do this fight overseas, and it was really like a decision between Manchester or Saudi. And it just made way more sense to do it in Saudi.” To critics, Saudi Arabia’s sports spending spree is not a genuine attempt to diversify its economy, but a means to paper over the country’s human rights abuses, a phenomenon known as sportswashing.
When the fight actually gets underway, the biggest questions will be whether Paul is a real boxer and whether Tommy Fury is a good-enough challenge to determine that. Fury is a somewhat more legitimate professional boxer, though his career is similar to Paul’s — but in reverse. He first fought as a professional in 2018, before taking time off to film the reality television program “Love Island” and then returning to the ring. Fury has an 8-0 record, and while a number of those fights were just to pad his record — his first five opponents had combined to win 12 fights and lose 174 — they were at least all against boxers.
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