Tyson Fury says he’ll smash Wladimir Klitschko

By Boxing News - 05/14/2015 - Comments

Image: Tyson Fury says he’ll smash Wladimir KlitschkoBy Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBO, #3 WBC, #3 IBF, #7 WBA heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) says he’s going to obliterate IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) once he gets him inside the ring at some point in the future.

The 26-year-old Fury could get his shot at Klitschko later this year unless Klitschko retires or vacates his WBO title. Fury is the WBO mandatory challenger for Wladimir after he beat Dereck Chisora by a 10th round stoppage in November 2014.

Fury is now waiting for his mandatory title shot against the 39-year-old Wladimir. Fury has already had one tune-up fight against Christian Hammer, and it’s unclear if he’ll take another one because the Wladimir fight might not take place until the end of the year if then.

“If I ever get hold of Wladimir I will smash him in bits.” said Fury via Britishboxers. “He is a [expletive]-house man he wouldn’t spar his shadow.”

Fury doesn’t have the kind of punching power to worry a guy like Wladimir, but he can possibly outwork him. That’s definitely a way that Fury can beat the Ukrainian. We saw how bad Wladimir looked in his recent win over American Bryant Jennings last month. Wladimir couldn’t pull the trigger on his shots, and looked like an old fighter.

If Wladimir looks like that against Fury, then I can possibly see him losing the fight. Wladimir will obviously nail Fury with some big shots along the way. If Fury can’t get out of the way of those punches, then I can see him getting knocked out because he’s not going to be able to take Wladimir’s best shots without dropping for the 10 count.

Fury, 6’9”, is bent out of shape because Wladimir supposedly did spar him in the past when Fury wanted to spar him. At the time, Wladimir was getting ready for a fight against the much shorter Chisora, and he didn’t see it being helpful for him to spar against someone totally unlike the fighter that he was planning on facing. The Chisora fight ultimately didn’t take place after Wladimir suffered an injury during training camp.

“I had my head-guard on I said go on let’s have a spar and he said no I’m only sparring small guys, because at the time he was going to be fighting Dereck Chisora, and he was scared of Dereck Chisora,” Fury said. “I said to him, I can beat Dereck Chisora never mind you, and then I went on a few months later and beat Dereck Chisora.”

Big deal, Fury beats Chisora. That doesn’t mean anything. We already saw David Haye do a much better job of defeating Chisora than Fury did.

If Fury gets whipped by Wladimir this year, it’s going to be a big setback for Fury because he’ll need to rebuild his career slowly. He’s young enough to come back from the defeat, but he’ll need to be selective in the type of opponents he faces because he won’t be able to risk his hide against a talent like WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. That’s a bad match-up for Fury due to Wilder’s hand speed, size and power.



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