Strowman may have been embarrassingly beaten but was he going to take this lying down? Of course not. Charming.įury took a few blows but eventually prevailed by clocking Strowman with a right hand as he was getting back into the ring. "This is my ring, you piece of trash," yelled Strowman at one point. This wasn't a classic of the spandex genre - or any genre come to think of it - but Fury showed off a few tricks he's learned along the way, pulling off a headlock, a kip-up and even a drop toe hold.įury even threw in an Undertaker-style, back-from-the-dead sit up. "Forty-five years after the Rumble in the Jungle, we can call this the Showdown in Saudi!" cried commentator Michael Cole as the match started, rather optimistically referencing Muhammad Ali's win over George Foreman in DR Congo in 1974. So what clobber would he bust out for his WWE debut?Īlways one to try to ingratiate himself to the locals, Fury emerged in full Arab thobe, including headdress, and stepped out from the curtain to the soothing soul sound of the Isley Brothers' It's Your Thing, with pyrotechnics blazing.
The ring walk Fury came to the ring dressed in a full Arab thawbĪ batman costume, jazzy shirts and plain old boxing shorts - Fury's wardrobe has been varied down the years.
But Fury has enthusiastically thrown himself into the world of scripted fighting and has been a showman from start to finish in a venture that has reportedly earned him £12m. This won't go down as one of Fury's greatest sporting achievements - because, spoiler alert, wrestling isn't a sport. After all was said and done, the undefeated former heavyweight boxing champion is now an undefeated WWE Superstar, after one match.įour weeks of build-up to Fury's fight against the 6ft 8in 'Monster Among Men' Braun Strowman culminated at the Crown Jewel event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday - with the Briton landing a right hand on his opponent and winning by virtue of Strowman failing to get back into the ring before a count of 10.
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