Fury in a position where he’s going to look bad against Cunningham

By Boxing News - 04/09/2013 - Comments

569By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury is almost in a no-win situation with his fight this month against 36-year-old Steve Cunningham at New York’s Madison Square Garden.

The 6’9” Fury thinks he’s going to impress the American boxing fans with his first fight in the United States, but unless he scores a quick knockout – which is highly unlikely given his complete absence of power – he’s going to end up struggling against Cunningham.

This isn’t a fight against an out of shape 3-round fighter in Kevin Johnson. Cunningham has had an entire training camp to get ready for the Fury fight, and he’s not going to stop throwing punches after the 3rd round like we saw with Fury’s win over Johnson.

Granted, I would like to have seen Fury face a better heavyweight with more power and lot more size like the 6’7” Deontay Wilder, but he’s had no luck in getting Fury in the ring with him despite having called him out in the past.

Cunningham will be giving up close to 50 pounds in weight and 7 inches in height to Fury, but that doesn’t matter because Fury can’t punch like a 250 pound fighter and he’s incredibly poor at using his height and reach to his advantage.

I don’t know if it’s a mental thing with Fury or if his body won’t let him fight on the outside but whatever the case is, he fights mostly at medium range and will be there to be hit by Cunningham all night long.

Cunningham will have a big advantage in speed and also an advantage in the power department in this fight. This means that the only thing that Fury will have going for him on April 20th will be his youth and work rate.

His youth won’t mean much because Cunningham is a young 36, and I see him as being really the younger fighter in terms of his body age. Fury looks really old for a 24-year-old fighter, and I don’t see him having any advantage due to his age.



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