Tyson Fury: “If I Fought Wilder In Manchester, We'd Sell 75,000 Tickets”

Tyson Fury is certain he’ll have as many fans cheering for him at Staples Center as Deontay Wilder when they fight December 1 in Los Angeles. “I’m sure I’ll have as many fans as Deontay Wilder at the fight,” Fury said Wednesday as part of a conference call. “But let’s just say that if this fight would’ve been in Manchester, or anywhere in the UK, it would’ve sold a stadium out. We would’ve sold 75,000 tickets. But they did want it to be here, and I’m happy that it is here because it gets me on the road again and I’m becoming a type of road warrior now – fighting in different people’s countries and taking championships off champions in their own countries. So I’ve become accustomed to it. But make no mistake, if this would’ve been in Manchester … we could’ve sold 75,000 tickets.” “I think it doesn’t really matter where the fight is gonna be,” Fury said. “As a fighter, it doesn’t matter, wherever it is, because the outcome is the same. A fight is a fight. No matter how many fans you’ve got behind you or how many people want you to win, if you’re good enough you’ll win, and if you’re not, you’re gonna lose. “So it’s really unimportant where the fight is, travelling to different countries. But for me, as a fighter, it makes it all the sweeter when I win in somebody else’s own backyard. And I tape all that up and use it as fire.”

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