Fury: I’m going to be a wild animal in Wladimir fight

By Boxing News - 10/09/2015 - Comments

fury5By Scott Gilfoid: We’re a little over a month away from the November 28th clash between IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) and unbeaten Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) for their rescheduled fight at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Fury, 26, is saying that he’s going to be a wild animal when he gets inside the ring with Klitschko on 11/28, and he says he’ll be as ferocious as a lion, tiger or a bear. Fury obviously hasn’t ever faced anyone good before in his career, so it’s easy for him to go on about what he’ll be like when he gets inside the ring with Wladimir.

When you’ve only fought weak stiffs for pretty much your entire career like Fury has, you can brag about yourself 24/7 and the fans will swallow this Pablum.

“Just expect a wild animal,” Fury said to skysports.com about how he’ll be inside the ring with Wladimir Klitschko. “[I’ll be a] Tiger, a lion, a bear, whatever you like. Have I ever shown weakness on big occasions? There’s a lot more from me. I’ve got a lot of stuff up my sleeves. Wladimir doesn’t know what he’s in for. I can just say that,” Fury said.

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The Klitschko-Fury fight was recently rescheduled for November 28th from the original October 24th fight date after Klitschko suffered an injury to his left calf muscle. The injury has since healed and the two fighters are back in training for their new date on 11/28. It’s anyone’s guess whether Wladimir’s body will be able to hold up for another month of training to get to the new fight date without him suffering another injury to either the same left calf or another part of his body.

Wladimir is 39-years-old now, and at that age anything can happen at any time. Fury wanted Wladimir rather than the younger, speedier and stronger WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder, and now he’s feeling the effects of his decision. Some boxing fans think that Fury only selected Wladimir because he wanted to have a built in excuse for when/if he gets knocked out cold by him.

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Getting knocked out by a fighter as accomplished as Wladimir isn’t as bad for a fighter’s reputation in boxing than it would be for Fury to get knocked out by a younger fighter like Wilder, who hasn’t yet accomplished as much as Klitschko. With Wladimir heading out the door into retirement in the near future, Fury wouldn’t have to be haunted by years by a loss to him because he would be gone. In other words, Fury wouldn’t have to continue to avoid Wladimir for years and years after he would lose to him like he would if he lost to the younger Wilder.

With Wilder, he’s still going to be around for another 10 years or so as a top fighter at heavyweight, so it would look bad for Fury if he lost to him right now. That’s why I think Fury selected Wladimir instead of Wilder for his next fight. I guess when Fury selected Wladimir, he didn’t factor in his age as being a potential problem for him in trying to make it out of training camp without him falling apart.

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