By Dimond Dallas: Just about a little while ago heavyweight Tyson Fury was looked upon by everyone as just another ‘big guy’ from Great Britain always destined to live in the shadow of the much more fancied David Price, it was almost as if people expected them to be the Frank Bruo and Lennox Lewis of their generation respectively… Tyson might get a few wins but will always live in the shadows of David Price… I never looked at things that way…
For starters David Price is much more older than Fury and has had much more experience as an amateur than what Fury had and still he is yet to beat anyone even reasonably good… with all his amateur experience and accomplishments he’s a guy that is pushing 30 and the only noteworthy opponent he has faced is Tony Thompson who was himself picked because he fit the ‘profile’… he was another 40 year old guy who was totally mauled by Wladimir Klitschko in their last fight, he was supposed to be the guy Price would beat to announce to the world his arrival but that story didn’t shape up the way Price’s camp would’ve liked it to have… the stray lucky punch notwithstanding this was supposed to be just another past-his-prime 40 year old for Prie to beat easily, albeit one with more name recognition at a world stage than Price’s earlier competition…
The same could be said of the latest ‘heavyweight sensation’ from the other side of the Atlantic in Deontay “Bronze Bomber” Wilder who is busy padding up his record with more and more meaningless wins. Deontay Wilder who just like David Price has had adequate amateur experience but is still intent on wasting everyone’s time by taking on meaningless fights… another one of the ‘young’ starts of heavyweight boxing close to touching 30 years of age with not a single meaningful victory yet…
Tyson Fury on the other hand wasn’t taking on soft fights to build up a meaningless record, he was taking real challenges from the get go… he ditched the amateur scene once he knew that he won’t be making the cut for the Olympics… at 18-19 years old most people would’ve felt that maybe he did so too early and should have instead hung around the amateur scene a little longer to try and make the cut for the next Olympics but that doesn’t seem to be his style…
On turning pro he immediately took on the right fights that allowed his career to develop in a meaningful way… he took on an undefeated Dereck Chisora to capture the British & Commonwealth titles he took on difficult fights against John McDermott, Kevin Johnson and the likes and then even traveled to New York to sink USS Steve Cunningham and now he is preparing to take on Kubrat Pulev, someone widely regarded as being a genuine contender in a bid to secure a match against Wladimir Klitschko…
One of the true hallmarks of the greatness of the Klitschkos has been the manner in which even the top tier competition seems to be weary of taking them on but Tyson genuinely seems to want to take them on and is now on the cusp of actually making that happen… even someone like David Haye who has upto this point been dismissive of any chances of a fight between him and any British prospective because as he put it there were none at a level which would make it worthwhile for him to even contemplate taking them on has now warmed up to the idea of facing Fury later this year which is in itself as great a testimony as any of the ‘arrival’ of Tyson Fury at the very top of the boxing elite… and he is not even 25 years old yet…
From being just someone trying to grab attention with outlandish statements to becoming someone firmly in the spotlight, Tyson Fury’s star has risen incredibly high in an incredibly short span of time…
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