Joshua gives Tyson Fury 40% chance of beating Wladimir Klitschko

By Boxing News - 07/22/2015 - Comments

wladimir4By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated British heavyweight Anthony Joshua thinks that fellow British heavyweight Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) has a very good chance of beating IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) in their fight on October 24th if the 6’9” Fury can get the older 39-year-old Wladimir to brawl with him rather than boxing him from the outside.

It’s unclear why the 25-year-old Joshua believes that Wladimir would potentially abandon his normal fighting style that he’s been using consistently for the past 10 years to fight an emotional fighter like Fury.

For Wladimir to fight Fury’s fight, he’d have to lose his senses completely and regress mentally to a stage of his early development for him to fight in a primitive caveman style like Fury.

“I give Fury a chance in the battle of what style controls the fight,” Joshua said via skysports.com. “Klitschko is a very technical boxer and Fury is quite irrational, emotional boxer. So it’s whose style is more dominant. If you’ve got Fury’s style, it will be a close fight; someone’s getting knocked out early. But if it’s Klitschko’s style, it’ll be like when he fought Mariusz Wach, a very technical display with weight on his back foot, not getting hit with silly jabs, gauging the distance, and it being a very spectacular performance.“

In listening to some of the things that Joshua said about the Klitschko-Fury fight, I can’t help thinking that Joshua doesn’t have clue one who Klitschko is and how he fights. I get the feeling that Joshua has never sat down and watched one of Wladimir’s fights before, because if he had he wouldn’t be making these ridiculous scenarios where Wladimir might abandon his own style and try and fight just like Fury.

Even if Wladimir wanted to do that, he physically couldn’t do it because he’s too old to be standing in the trenches trying to throw 80 punches per round. Further, Wladimir doesn’t have the inside fighting skills that Fury, and he’s well aware of that. Wladimir openly admits that Fury is a very good fighter on the inside. But there’s no way that the older, more experienced Wladimir is going to try and fight like a 26-year-old Fury, who fights on emotion and who like Joshua says is irrational with the way he slugs with his opponents.

Believe me, Wladimir is going to keep the action on the outside against Fury, and jab him and bounce long right hands off his head all night long. Fury can’t fight on the outside and Wladimir knows this.

“I give Tyson Fury a 40% chance [of winning]. He’s young, he’s got nothing to lose, which is a good thing mentally,” Joshua said. “He’s very big, he’s a big man against a big man. So the distance of range being equal. So I give him a chance. The reason why I don’t give him a 50-50 chance is Klitschko has been reining for 10 years [as a world champion], and he’s got experience that Fury lacks,” Joshua said.

Joshua sort of sounds like he’s coming from up high in talking about the Wladimir-Fury fight, as if he could do better. For a fighter whose best opponent of his career is Kevin Johnson, I don’t think Joshua has any idea of what he’s talking about in giving his analysis how the Klitschko vs. Fury fight will be played out.

The only way the Klitschko-Fury fight will be carried out is with it being fought at long range where Fury will be as helpless as a baby. If Wladimir decides to fight stupid, he’ll give up his long distance control and get in the trenches with Fury from 2 feet away to trade shots. I don’t know why Wladimir would do this other than him losing his mind in the moment, but there’s a chance he could go wacky on October 24th. However, I’d say the chances are less than 1 percent. That kind of tells you that Joshua doesn’t know what he’s talking about in analyzing the Klitschko-Fury fight.



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