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Empty Vessels

AS WELL as the possibility of seeing it actually happen, much of the appeal of Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk coming to some sort of agreement regarding an April 29 heavyweight fight was that, in doing so, Fury promised to begin a social media blackout and focus exclusively on training.

Of course, given it was Fury, this was a promise one had to take with a handful of salt, no different than prior ones concerning retirement or the distribution of fight purses to the homeless. But still, for about 24 hours, it did seem as though Fury, so entertaining in small – very small – doses,

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