By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) seems to have some grandiose thoughts about what will happen if he beats IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) in their fight on October 24th at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Fury believes that he’ll become the biggest thing in the sport if he beats the aging 39-year-old Klitschko. Just why Fury has those grandiose thoughts is anyone’s guess. I’m not sure if Fury has been keeping up with things, but if he looked around, he would have discovered by now that Wladimir isn’t a popular heavyweight outside of Germany and Ukraine.
Wladimir is also old, showing signs of deteriorating, and about to turn 40. As such, it won’t mean a heck of a lot if Fury beats Wladimir at this point in his career. I mean, who’s going to make a big production out of Fury beating an old guy who has only had a small handful of decent fights in the past 10 years. It’s not as uf Wladimir has faced a lot of quality heavyweights during his time as the champion.
Fury is expected to lose the fight due to his fragile chin, lack of punching power, poor mechanics and lack of experience. The only things that Fury has going for him is his 6’9” height, his high work rate, and his younth at 26. Despite all that, Fury is still expected to lose by knockout in the eyes of a lot of boxing fans.
“If I win [against Wladimir], I’ll be the biggest thing in boxing,” Fury said to IFL TV.
I don’t see Fury being the biggest thing in the sport, or the biggest thing in the heavyweight division if he beats Wladimir. Fury would still need to prove that he can beat a talent like WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder. I don’t think Fury can win that fight because he has no outside game to speak of. Fury is only good when he can get in close and throw a million punches against a heavyweight that doesn’t have the brains to move to the outside where Fury is harmless due to his inability to stretch his body forward to throw long punches.
If you’ve see Fury’s past fights, you’ll have noticed that he’s incapable of throwing long shots from the outside. I’m not sure what the problem is, but it think it takes too much effort for him to throw a long overhand right or left hand, so he doesn’t even try it. Against a talent like Wilder, Fury would get bombed from a million miles away.
Besides Wilder, Fury would have to prove that he can beat the likes of Alexander Povetkin, Lucas Browne, Bermane Stiverne, Bryant Jennings and Chris Arreola. Heck, Fury would even have to prove that he can beat Anthony Joshua. Fury couldn’t become the “biggest thing in boxing” unless he cleaned out the heavyweight division, and even then I don’t think he would be the biggest thing in boxing.
Fury believes that if gets beaten, he’ll be shutout for any other world title shots because none of the champions will want to choose him in a voluntary defense. So in other words, Fury would need to become the mandatory challenger each time he wants a world title shot, which is probably true. We haven’t seen Wladimir taking on any tough challengers in voluntary defenses during his nine-year title reign. I can’t think of one tough contender Wladimir has faced for one of his voluntary defenses.
“I don’t be given any more shots if I lost,” Fury said. “This will be my first and last shot. It took me seven years to get me a world title fight. I’m not the kind of person who gets voluntary shots. I’m the type of person who has to work harder. I had to fight three world title eliminators just to get here. I’m anticipating a very, very hard fight,” Fury said.
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