By Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBC heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) is bellyaching about wanting to get a stay busy fight for October or November to keep him active until IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) eventually heals up enough for him to face Fury, whenever that is. Klitschko, 39, pulled out of his previously scheduled October 24th fight against Fury last week, saying that he had injured his left calf in training.
Fury thinks that the Klitschko fight won’t be rescheduled until possibly February 2016, because Sky Box Office doesn’t have a fight date for November.
Fury wants to fight in October or November against whoever. He says he’d be willing to fight former world title challenger Dereck Chisora, who he has already beaten twice in one-sided fights.
The 260 pound Chisora looked absolutely horrible last Saturday night in having to labor hard to beat journeyman Marcelo Luiz Nascimento by a 10 round decision on the undercard of the Fedor Chudinov vs. Frank Buglioni fight card at the Wembley Arena in London, UK.
I would love to fight this year! But we will see what the contracts say,if the fight gets put back until February, I need to fight Oct/nov!
— Gypsy King (@Tyson_Fury) September 28, 2015
Fury likely won’t get a chance to fight an opponent in between the Klitschko fight. He says he has to check the contract language for his contract with the Ukrainian to see if he can take a stay busy fight, but it would be very surprising if he can. Fury should have thought about all of this stuff when he chose to fight the 39-year-old Klitschko instead of the 29-year-old Deontay Wilder.
Just for the buz wonder if @dellboychisora wants to dance for a third time, seems he is the only guy with any balls!
— Gypsy King (@Tyson_Fury) September 28, 2015
Fury is now just going to have to take the pain and deal with it. I just hope he doesn’t keep whining and complaining about the mess he got himself into by choosing the older Klitschko instead of the younger Wilder. Fury had the chance to fight Wilder instead of Klitschko, but instead he chose the older guy and look what’s come of it.
Fury is now yapping about wanting to fight someone else, but that probably isn’t going to happen. I mean, can you see Klitschko’s silver-haired manager Bernrd Boente agreeing to that? Boente likely laugh Fury or his promoter Mick Hennessey off the phone if they called him and asked him for permission to fight someone else while they wait for Wladimir to eventually heal one of these days.
I'm the uncrowned heavyweigh champion of the world, I'm a very happy man this morning, love being the #1fighteroftheplanet
— Gypsy King (@Tyson_Fury) September 28, 2015
Fury is just going to have to sit and wait for Klitschko to get better. Let’s just hope that Klitschko doesn’t reinjure his calf when he starts training camp again because this thing could drag out until the middle of 2016 if he keeps injuring it. I recently strained my right calf walking up a flight of stairs, and I couldn’t walk for weeks.
It took over two months to get back, but even now I still have flair ups. I didn’t injure a tendon like Wladimir did. That’s got to be far, far worse. This thing could really drag out for many months before Klitschko’s calf is finally healed. Poor Fury is just going to have to sit back and keep his gob shut in the meantime.
Chisora, 31, would be a decent stay busy fight for Fury. Heck, Chisora looked ready to be beaten by Nascimento last Saturday night. If the Brazilian fighter knew how to throw straight punches, he would have likely beaten Chisora. But it’s just so sad how awful Chisora looked in that fight. He looked like a shot fighter who’d seen better days.
Nascimento was blasted out by heavyweight prospect Dillian Whyte in two rounds last February one one-sided fight. That kind of shows you have far off the main pack Chisora is. Couldn’t even KO a fighter that was blasted apart by Whyte in 2 rounds.
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