Tyson Fury trashes Deontay Wilder, but in no rush to fight him

By Boxing News - 01/19/2015 - Comments

fury5555By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it didn’t take Britain’s heavyweight Tyson Fury (23-0, 17 KOs) to come out of the woodwork and start dumping on newly crowned WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs) after his fine performance against Bermane Stiverne last Saturday night.

In response to Wilder’s fine job he did against Stiverne, Fury called Wilder a “Hype job”, and said that he could fight him down the road after his fights against Christian Hammer (17-3, 10 KOs) on February 28th and IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. In other words, we’re probably talking about the Wilder-Fury fight only taking place if Wilder is interested in fighting Fury after he gets knocked out by Wladimir later in the year.

That means we’re not going to be seeing Wilder and Fury fighting in 2015, because Fury will be taken out by Wladimir, and then Fury will probably be licking his wounds from that fight and trying to rebuild his career for the next year or so.

“I don’t like Deontay Wilder and he doesn’t like me,” Fury said. “I think he’s a big hype-job. I told him one day I will get him in the ring and knock him out. That is still my plan.”

You notice how Fury said “One day” when talking about the Wilder fight, didn’t you? That kind of tells you how motivated Fury is in fighting the hard hitting Wilder. It’s like Fury talking about mowing his grass one of these days. I don’t see him being seriously interested in getting in the ring with the 6’7” Wilder and risking his hide in front of the entire world.

“He’s got a title now and I’m the mandatory challenger for Wladimir Klitschko. In an ideal world I’d like to fight Klitschko first, because he’s got most of the belts and he’s the number one in the division, and then I’d like to unify all the titles against Deontay Wilder,” Fury said.

In other words, Fury isn’t interested in facing Wilder now. He wants to take the Klitschko fight, which obviously is going to lead to Fury getting sparked out by the 6’6” Ukrainian.

Like I said, Wilder isn’t going to face Fury after he gets knocked out by Wladimir, so all Fury’s blabbing about wanting to fight Wilder one of these days in the near future is pretty much pointless, because Wilder isn’t going to face him after he gets beaten by Wladimir. Wilder will only be looking to face guys that are winning their fights, not someone who is coming off of a likely bad knockout loss to Wladimir.

“Potentially, I’m three or four fights away from being the unified heavyweight champion of the world,
Fury said.

Fury is really kidding himself. To be sure, he’s going to win his next fight against the little known fighter Hammer, but that’s all he’s going to win. Once Fury faces Wladimir this year or early next year, he’s going to likely get beaten badly by Wladimir. From there, it’s going to be rebuilding for Fury, and there’s no way you can rush a rebuild job for a guy that was knocked out or badly beaten. We’re talking at least a year, possibly two before Fury would be available for Deontay to fight. Even then, I don’t see it as being a fight that will excite a lot of boxing fans because people won’t have forgotten how easily Fury was handled by Wladimir.



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