Frank Warren, co-promoter for WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, is not paying attention to the sector of fans who are criticizing the recent performance by his fighter.
Last month in Saudi Arabia, Fury struggled to win a close ten round split decision win over MMA veteran Francis Ngannou.
The bout was expected to play out as a complete mismatch, as Ngannou was making his professional debut.
Fury was dropped by a hard left hand in the third round. He would later suffer a cut from an uppercut and also sustained a badly bruised left eye.
There were conspiracy theories that Fury intentionally looked bad to delay an already signed undisputed fight with unified champion Oleksandr Usyk.
“What nonsense. Where was the fix when Tyson came within a second or two of being counted out when he was knocked down in the third round? Where was the fix when he had to knuckle down and fight hard to pull out the win he deserved?,” Warren told The Daily Mail.
“All this idiocy has come from mostly the same people who were saying before the fight that it was a farce, a sham, a circus for the world heavyweight champion to be taking a crossover fight with Ngannou which he would win so easily it would be over whenever he wanted. We knew that Ngannou would be a tough opponent with massive punching power and the physical strength to take big shots himself.
“We did expect that Tyson would work him out in the first two or three rounds and go on to win but the knockdown changed the fight. So now the people who rubbished it in advance as a joke are saying it was a disgrace and bad for boxing that he was taken to a close decision.
“As for the so-called robbery, anyone with the slightest idea about how to score a fight knows that Fury won despite a poor performance by his high standards. And more and more people who have watched a TV replay are coming round to that opinion.”