Deontay Wilder to Tyson Fury: Don’t go the Klitschko route, go my route!

By Boxing News - 03/07/2015 - Comments

wilder4By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (33-0, 32 KOs) says he really wants a fight against Britain’s Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) so he can be the first one to give the 6’9” Brit a defeat. Deontay isn’t too happy that Fury has decided to go after IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s titles rather than him.

Wilder doesn’t want Fury to face Wladimir for more than one reason. Wilder obviously wants the Fury fight first due to the huge attention and the money the fight would make.

Additionally, Wilder wants to fight Fury first, because he likely knows that the chances of Fury getting knocked out by the hard-hitting 6’6” Wladimir are very high. Once Fury has been exposed in a knockout loss to Wladimir, then it’ll decrease much of the interest in a future Wilder-Fury fight.

In other words, Fury will be seen as damaged goods by a lot of boxing fans. To be sure, Fury will eventually be able to rebuild his career to the point where a Wilder-Fury fight will be a big deal, but the likelihood is that it’s going to take at least 2 to 4 years for Fury to accomplish that task.

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That’s a long time for Wilder to wait, and I’m not sure that the fight will ever be what it could have been had Fury faced Wilder while he was still unbeaten.

“He’s [Fury] already trying to go another route,” Wilder said of Tyson Fury to esnewsreporting.com. “I want him really bad. I’m tired of all the talking. It’s been three years since we’ve been doing this. I’m at the point where I’m in a no talk zone. I got what you want [the WBC heavyweight title], so you know where to find me. So let’s make it happen. Don’t go the Klitschko route; go my route,” Wilder said.

The fact of the matter is that Fury will be taking the fight against Wladimir first, even though it’ll likely make Fury less money than a fight against Wilder would. Fury says he wants to fight Wladimir because he’s perceived to be the best heavyweight in the division, and he wants to be seen beating him so that he can get all the praise from the boxing world.

I think there’s another reason why Fury wants to fight Wladimir rather than Deontay. If Fury faces Wilder and takes a quick knockout loss, then Fury won’t be seen as someone that can take charge of the heavyweight division in the future due to Deontay still being there.

If Fury loses to the 38-year-old Wladimir, then Fury can tell boxing fans that he’ll be taking over once Wladimir retires from the sport in the near future. Fury can say that and many of his fans will give him a free pass for his knockout loss to Wladimir. But with Wilder still being a young heavyweight at 29, he’s still going to be around for another 10 years to haunt Fury.

This means that Fury won’t be seen by his fans as the future of the heavyweight division due to Wilder still being there as an unmovable force that Fury doesn’t have the chin or the talent to beat.



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