By Scott Gilfoid: 6’6” heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (5-0, 4 KO’s) will be looking for his sixth straight win tomorrow night against journeyman Tomas Mrazek (7-40-6, 5 KO’s) in a six-round bout at the Epic Centre, Magdalen Street, Norwich, UK.
Fury, 18, has all the advantages in this fight – speed, power, youth, you name it. This is just another mismatch that is supposedly getting Fury ready for better opponents.
I don’t agree with the idea that total fodder opposition gets one ready for better fighters. Fury’s promoter should skip to the chase and put Fury in with a decent B level fighter and see how he does.
Putting him with C level guys like Mrazek does nothing for Fury other than having him develop bad habits that will turn around and bite him on the backside once he faces a live body that fights back and doesn’t flop over the first time Fury hits him.
We’re already seeing Fury’s bad habits in his last fight against Ladslav Kovarik last Saturday night where Fury, showing very little in the way of technique, rushed Kovarik and threw right hand after right in a kind of clubbing fashion that was very similar to Fury’s cousin Tyson Fury.
It looked very amateurish and nothing like what you’d see from a seasoned pro. Kovarik eventually fell down, but it was ugly to watch. Hughie could get away with fighting in such a primitive style against an opponent that was so badly over-matched that Hughie could fight with a blindfold and still likely knock the guy out.
Hughie didn’t have to use good form against Kovarik because he wasn’t good enough to make Hughie pay for being in a primitive mode with him.
There is some good news as Hughie goes; next month Hughie will be taking a step up of sorts against 40-year-old Darren Corbett (29-8-1, 16 KO’s) in a scheduled 6-round bout at the Fairways Hotel in Dundalk, Ireland.
As far as Corbett’s record goes, it would seem to be a step up from the likes of Mrazek and Kovarik. But don’t get too excited about the fight; Corbett has lost 5 out of his last 8 bouts, including his last two.
It looks like he may have put on a mess of weight recently because his weight jumped from 206 to 244 in the matter of 8 months last year from April to December. I’m guessing all that weight wasn’t muscle that Corbett put on.
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