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The majority of the boxing world wants to see Tyson Fury rematch his rival Deontay Wilder for the title soon, or even face Anthony Joshua.

Unfortunately, however, that won’t be happening soon. Wilder will defend his WBC heavyweight title against mandatory challenger Dominic Breazeale this Saturday from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. Joshua will face Andy Ruiz. Jr. on June 1. Fury, on the other hand, will face German Tom Schwarz on June 15th from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The fights are an opportunity to watch three of the heavyweight division’s best boxers, that much is true. However, many fans believe the heavyweight division could be in a much better state if the weight class’s biggest names could reach an agreement to fight each other. With all three of Wilder, Fury, and Joshua having signed their own respective streaming deals, that doesn’t appear to be likely as of now.

But that hasn’t stopped the online beef between Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn and Fury. With trash talk flowing, Hearn has recently been in the headlines about a possible collaboration with Dana White. He’s also lashed out at Fury.

Fury recently opened up on the beef in an interview with Behind the Gloves. In it, Fury took the proverbial gloves off by suggesting Hearn simply has a ‘man crush’ on him, and that’s why he says nasty things:

“There’s nothing going on. Is there something going on online? Eddie loves taking a bit of stick from me. He’s a fanboy. Eddie Hearn is a tit. And he knows that. And I know that, and the rest of the world knows that.

“Eddie Hearn’s got a man crush on me, that’s all it is. So when somebody fancies somebody, they do nasty things to them all the time and they talk s*** about them. So when whenever you see Eddie Hearn saying all the bulls*** about me, and you get me responding back to him, it’s because he’s got a man crush on me and he obviously fancies me. Don’t you Eddie? I’m going to take him out for a drink the next time I see him.”

No Place To Talk

‘The Gypsy King’ continued on that Hearn really didn’t have a place to be talking trash about him, as he’s never fought in the ring. He even offered a light-hearted ‘truce’ to Hearn:

“We fight one-on-one to entertain the customer, entertain the fans. So when you get people like Eddie Hearn saying negative stuff about me, I look at it and I say, ‘You know what, Eddie? You’ve never had a fight in your life, so how can you call me and say I’m s***, or whatever?’ Because you can’t fight. If you could, you’d be a world champion and I wouldn’t.”

“And I understand that he’s a promoter and he has to try and run me down to make his fighter look better, it is what it is. I’m sick of all the bulls*** games. I say we call a truce.”

But the truce stopped short if Hearn spoke another word about him, Fury said. If he did, Fury had a threat for him:

“On the next negative word you say about me, I’m going to slap all your teeth in for you. I hope that I’ve got that across to the person who’s watching. For people who don’t fight to call fighters who do fight is a joke. Because until you’ve been punched in the face in a boxing ring, you don’t understand what it’s about.”

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Ever since their fateful first match-up at UFC 229 last fall, the discussion of how a rematch between Khabib Nurmagomedov and Conor McGregor would play out has been a hot topic in mixed martial arts (MMA). Like many, Joe Rogan doesn’t think there is much of a discussion.

That’s obviously due to the one-sided nature of their first fight. Khabib took McGregor down at will and eventually submitted him via neck crank in the fourth round. Still, McGregor has campaigned for an immediate rematch. ‘The Eagle’ appears set to face interim champion Dustin Poirier at September’s UFC 242 from Abu Dhabi, however.

According to Rogan, that’s a good thing. The UFC commentator revealed on his Joe Rogan Experience podcast that he believes McGregor’s true hunger to fight is gone after his 2017 payday to box Floyd Mayweather:

“Oh for sure. He ain’t hungry at all. He’s got $100 million dollars. But I think he still loves to compete. But there’s no hunger anymore, there ain’t no hunger. Like, he might be hungry for success, but there’s no desperation. He has a lot to lose now, too.

“It’s a different thing. He enters into the fight with $100 million in the bank, it’s a very different experience than entering into the fight with $1 million and hoping you can make 3 more tonight, like many, I’m sure, fights he’s had in the past. It’s a different world. He can do whatever he wants forever. He’s still only 30. He’s young, man. To be set for the rest of your life at 30 is kind of f***ing bananas.”

Rogan believes that if McGregor were to refocus solely on his fighting legacy, he could regain that hunger because he’s not yet at his peak:

“I don’t think he’s at his peak as a fighter. So if he just decides, ‘who gives a f** about the money, I’m here to leave a legacy and I’m just going to train like a demon,’ and he kicks aside all of the bad influences and all the bad influences and all the distractions in his life and just focuses on training, he’s a motherf***er, man. You saw what he did to Aldo, you saw what he did to Chad Mendes, you saw what he did to Dustin Poirier, I mean, he is a bad motherf***er, period.”

But even if he did so, Rogan offered his belief that McGregor would always have problems with Khabib’s world-class wrestling:

“Um, yeah, I mean, he’s always going to have a problem with Khabib. Khabib’s wrestling is so high-level, it’s so different. He smothers you in a way that you think have good takedown defense until you run into that motherf***er. He just gets ahold of everyone, he does it to everyone.

“Whether you’re Michael Johnson or Edson Barboza, no matter how good your takedown defense was in the past. In the Barboza fight, he basically just waded towards him. Waded through the fury of leg kicks and punches and just, ‘clamp, drag, smash.’ And that’s what he does to everybody, man.”

Rogan then closed by taking things a bit further. He posed the scenario of Khabib taking on a world-class wrestler like Jordan Burroughs in MMA to see how good he truly was. Rogan noted Khabib would have a big advantage on the feet:

“The real thing about a guy like him would be seeing a guy like him against a guy like Jordan Burroughs. Could he do that to a guy who is a spectacular wrestler as well? Then it becomes, I mean, his striking, which has gotten very high-level.

“He’s very dangerous striking. So he dropped Conor, he can f*** people up. He’s stopped a few people with strikes. He’s dangerous enough on the feet. I don’t know how many really high-level grapplers have striking that can stand with him. Because if he decided to keep it up, he’d have an advantage there until they got good at it.

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This week, Olympic champion wrestler Jordan Burroughs trounced UFC star Ben Askren 11-0 in a charity match at Beat The Streets: Grapple At The Garden in New York City.

The result was not an unexpected one, as Burroughs is ranked among the finest wrestlers in the world. ‘Funky’ is no slouch, but it was more about raising money for charity and awareness for the sport of wrestling.

Burroughs acknowledged that in a lengthy, emotional statement on his Instagram account tonight extolling the virtues of Askren’s heart. He looked back on their history together, even throwing a sly bit of shade in at the end.

Read his full statement here:

“I was a 19-year-old college sophomore when I met @benaskren for the first time. Fresh off a historic collegiate career, Ben was widely recognized as the best wrestler of his era regardless of weight — he was an icon in a sport lacking big personality. Less than a year after graduating, he made the 2008 Olympic team at 163 pounds, my current weight class.

“Meanwhile I was a 150-pound kid on the USA junior team, sitting on the edge of the mat during Olympic Team practice, hoping to not only pick up some technique, but maybe get to rub shoulders with some Olympians. As I sat in that sweaty wrestling room on those humid summer afternoons watching them prepare for the Games, my Olympic aspirations were born. Little did anyone know that I was going to be the man that would succeed Ben Askren.

“Fast forward more than 10 years to this past Monday night. Both Ben and I walked down the stairs of the 200 section of the Hulu Theatre heading for the raised mat on a platform in an arena where we were the headliners.

“Ben, the former wrestling icon turned MMA superstar. Me, once just a young matside dreamer turned wrestling legend. And more than 6,000 fans to watch it all.

“Regardless of the result, I knew this year’s Beat the Streets event was going to be epic.

“To Ben – What you and I were able to do Monday night was incredible. Thank you for your willingness to put your reputation, and more importantly your health on the line for the sake of the sport that bred you.

“For a few hours, the wrestling and MMA worlds stood still, and together, and wondered if you’d be able to — as you’ve done many times in the past — shock the world. But instead you got double-legged, more than once. All jokes aside, this match truly wasn’t about winning or losing, but rather supporting young kids in need and growing our sport. Because of your willingness to step toe-to-toe with me, countless new eyes have been drawn to wrestling.

“Something Ben said at Sunday’s press conference really resonated with me. “Stepping up to a challenge doesn’t mean just saying yes when you know you can win,” he said, “but saying yes even when you know that you could get your butt kicked.”

“That’s heart. Respect.”

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