If Conor McGregor doesn’t get a chance to bring combat sports back to Croke Park, Tyson Fury just might.
The newly crowned heavyweight champion of the world is fresh off his victory over Wladimir Klitschko, but a clause in their fight contract means the Ukrainian is entitled to a rematch.
Fury revealed on Today with Sean O’Rourke that there are two venues he dreams of fighting in, Old Trafford, Manchester – the city where he was born and raised, and Croke Park.
“I don’t know if he’s going to take the rematch or not. There is a contract to say that he’s entitled to a rematch, so the rematch clause has got to be fulfilled.”
“I don’t know where it’s going to be. I’ve always said I’d like to fight at Croke Park, so maybe that can be a reality one day.”
UFC president Dana White has already promised several times that should interim featherweight champion Conor McGregor unify his belt by beating Jose Aldo, his first defence would be in Croke Park. This would mean he would be the first man to have a sanctioned fight in the stadium since Muhammad Ali in 1972.
However, Fury’s interest in bringing a boxing event to Croke Park may dash our hopes of a born and bred Irishman bringing combat sports back to Croker.
“I always said there’s a few venues that I’d like to box in around the world. One of them was Madison Square Garden, I done that one. One of them’s Old Trafford at Manchester United, I’ve not done that one. And one of them’s Croke Park. So, they’re the three venues that I’ve wanted to box in.”
“I wasn’t really interested in Las Vegas and all them places but the three that I’ve always said was Croke Park, United and Madison Square Garden.”
You can listen to Fury talk about his dream of fighting in Croke in the player embedded below from the 13:10 mark.
