By Scott Gilfoid: The moment of truth has arrived for the unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) in his fight this Saturday night against the MUCH more experienced and arguably MUCH more talented Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) at the Madison Square Garden Theater, New York, New York, USA.
Fury, 24, has two ways to go if he wins this fight. He’s been promised a shot at the winner of the Chris Arreola vs. Bermane Stiverne fight by World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman to get a shot to become the mandatory challenger for WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko or he can choose to go the more dangerous route of fighting unbeaten #1 IBF Kubrat Pulev to try and become the mandatory challenger for IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.
Fury said to the Dailystar.co.uk “WBC president Jose Sulaiman has said I will become the mandatory challenger for the belt and that is a massive incentive for me to win here. I am not far off it and within a few months I should have the world title I have dreamed of.”
I think Fury is a little confused. I think he means he’ll have a fight against the winner of the Arreola-Stiverne fight in a few months, not a title shot in a few months. A few means three and I see Fury as being a year away from a title shot against Vitali, even if were to beat Cunningham and the winner of the Arreola-Stiverne fight.
To be honest with you, I don’t see Fury getting past Cunningham and I DEFINITELY don’t see him beating Chris Arreola. I don’t see Stiverne as getting past Arreola, so he’s not really relevant to this conversation. Cunningham is going to be really tough for Fury because he’s so much more talented in everything he does compared to the 6’9” Fury.
The only thing that Fury has going for him in this fight is his size. If you take that away and put him at 6’3” like Cunningham, then he’d get slaughtered by him. Fury is winning on size alone right now and I see Cunningham as being too talented for Fury’s size to be any help to him.
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