By Scott Gilfoid: #5 WBO Tyson Fury (22-0, 16 KO’s) estimates he’s only 2 fights away from a world title shot against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko next year. Fury has a sparring session against 33-year-old Carlos Takam (29-1-1, 23 KO’s) scheduled in the middle of April, and a fight against an old victim Dereck Chisora (20-4, 13 KO’s) scheduled on July 26th at the Phones 4u Arena in Manchester, UK.
The World Boxing Organization for some reason are letting the Chisora-Fury 2 fight be a WBO heavyweight eliminator bout despite the fact that both #3 WBO Andy Ruiz and #4 Deontay Wilder are both ranked ahead of the 6’9” Fury. It seems to me that Chisora should be fighting one of those talents instead of the lower ranked Fury, but then again I’m still trying to figure out why on Earth the WBO has Chisora ranked at No.2 by their organization after 5 wins over less than impressive opposition.
The guys that Chisora beat should have him ranked at dead bottom by the WBO at No.15, and I’m being kind with that ranking because I don’t think Chisora should be ranked at all in the top 15 until he beats a decent quality fighter and that hasn’t happened. Getting ranked just because he beat some no named guys doesn’t make sense at all.
“I’m two fights – including the gym bout [against Carlos Takam] and Chisora – away from fighting Klitschko for the world title unless he does a runner, but he can’t this time and he’ll be forced to fight me,” Fury said.
I just wonder what Fury will do if Takam whips his backside in their sparring session next month? Does Fury ignore the backside whipping and push ahead for the Klitschko fight anyway after he easily beats Chisora for the second time, or does he realize that he needs to take a fight with Takam outside of the gym without the big oversized gloves on and the headgear so that he can prove that he deserves a title shot against Wladimir? I think the answer is obvious. Fury will take his beating from Takama in the sparring session, and likely ignore it completely and beat Chisora a second time to get his payday fight against Wladimir.
No way do I see Fury facing a talent like Takam outside of the gym in a real fight, because this guys too good, and he’s not some light hitting journeyman fighter picked out for him to beat up. Takam would be in Fury’s face from the word go and would batter him into submission.
Fury will no doubt get his payday fight against Wladimir next year, and take his knockout loss like a man. He can then go back to fighting the likes of Chisora, Martin Rogan and Vinny Maddalone as before.
There are some guys that Fury can beat in the heavyweight division, but Klitschko, Deontay Wilder, Carlos Takam, Bryant Jennings, Chris Arreola, Bermane Stiverne, Andy Ruiz, Kubrat Pulev, Alexander Povetkin, Vyacheslav Glazkov, Tony Thompson and Tomasz Adamek aren’t among those. Fury would come up empty against all of this guys, and possibly a few others like Mike Perez, Alexander Ustinov, Denis Boytsov and Alex Leapai.
I like the match-making that Fury’s promoter has done for him since he turned pro. I mean, Fury has been matched against all the right guys that he can actually beat, and I wouldn’t change a thing if I was his promoter. I would put him in with the exact same guys and avoid all the aforementioned fighters in my above list, because I would see all of them as being too good for him. I would just want to angle Fury for a big payday cash out fight against Klitschko. It’ too bad the fight against David Haye didn’t work out for Fury, because that would have been the ideal cash out fight.
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