Jake Paul has formally agreed to fight Tommy Fury in the United Kingdom with the American believing that the 22-year-old does not want to travel to the United States to fight him. The two agreed the fight last week after months of negotiations, coming after their first fight was cancelled when Fury picked up an injury.
Yesterday, Fury and Paul should have been going face-to-face for their press conference. The American star was left furious after Fury was denied entry to the United States because of an issue with his ESTA. Fury was due to fly out for the conference at Madison Square Garden with Paul for their upcoming boxing bout on August 6, before Fury revealed that he was turned away at Heathrow Airport after having his ESTA denied.
Frustrated, Paul has now questioned Fury's urgency to sort his VISA details to fly over to the States, and wonders if Fury would prefer to fight in the UK.
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Fury would be travelling to the States without his father and trainer, John, who remains banned from the country after serving a number of years in prison. Paul has now stated that he will come to the UK to fight Fury, but on one condition - that he shows him the money.
Addressing the situation on social media, Paul said: "Update: We've spoken to Tommy Fury's lawyers, they are all advising him to just go to the embassy to get his visa but Tommy is showing no urgency. He hasn't gone yet, he's not communicating with us on what he's doing. Is this another case of Tommy Fumbles just being scared to fight me? I think that's what it is.
"I think the Fury family is trying to manipulate something here to make me fight in the UK. Ok, you want me to fight in the UK? Show me $15million. Here in America we do more pay-per-view buys, we do more ticket sales and we do more sponsorship. I've shown you the money we're ready to go.
"MSG August 6. Tommy, you're going to miss out on the biggest payday in your life because you want me to come to the UK? Like I said I'll come there, just show me the money. But y'all can't do that, y'all don't have $15m.
"This is embarrassing, go to the embassy, get your visa and let's make this fight happen. Stop ducking me and stop wasting my time."
