Klitschko’s jab and grab won’t work against Fury, says Peter F

By Boxing News - 10/01/2015 - Comments

fury6262By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight Tyson Fury’s trainer Peter Fury doesn’t think that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko’s usual jab and grab technique will work against the 6’9” Fury, when their fight takes place sometime in the future.

Peter says that Fury will be fighting in an unpredictable manner, and that it’s going to take more than Wladimir’s normal manner of fighting for him to get the victory against the British fighter. The Klitschko-Fury fight still needs to be rescheduled after Wladimir suffered a calf injury a week ago.

Peter is saying that the fight will be rescheduled for November 28th or February of next year. Of course, Peter can’t predict the future, so it kind of doesn’t matter what he predicts as far as the fight date goes. I mean, with a calf injury like the one Wladimir sustained, it could very well drag out further into the future until the thing heals, and even then, we don’t know if he’ll reinjure the thing. Heck, my prediction for when the Klitschko-Fury fight will wind up taking place could be about as good as Peter’s.

“We are working on rescheduling the fight for hopefully 28 November or mid to late February 2016. The date will be known sometime this week,” Peter said to Fighthype.com.

I hope that Wladimir is able to come back from this injury quickly enough for the Fury fight to be rescheduled in November of February, but I’m not holding my breath on it. With a calf injury, as I found out myself recently, the injury can flair up once you start training again. Just because the pain has gone doesn’t mean that you can’t reinjure the thing.

That’s why I think this thing could keep Wladmir from fighting for a long, long time. But it’s all good for Fury because he is the younger fighter of the two, and he does have some blubber around his waist that he could stand to trim off.

With the extra time for training, Fury should be taking advantage of it by getting in the gym, training hard, and burning that blubber off of his frame so that he’s not carrying around a 25 pound lead weight around his waist when he does fight Klitschko.

“Yes, grab and hold will not cut it for Klitchko. This is one of many reasons Tyson is a major threat,” Peter said about Klitschko’s tendency to clinch a lot in his fights.

I think the jab and grab technique will work just as good against the slow as molasses Fury as it’s worked against Wladimir’s other opponents. Fury is very slow of hand, and he’s very, very hittable with jabs, especially by a fighter with Wladimir’s reach. Wladimir makes his reach even better by leaning forward when he throws it.

Fury doesn’t seem capable of bending at the waist when he throws his punches for some reason. Watch Fury’s fights and you’ll see what I’m talking about. When Fury throws a shot, he’s standing almost straight up and he doesn’t seem like he can stretch his body put forward the way normal fighters do when they throw long punches. There seems to be some flexibility issues with Fury. But as far as the grabbing from Klitschko not working against Fury, according to Peter, I disagree.

Fury won’t be able to stop Klitschko from grabbing him. Fury isn’t a powerful guy in terms of upper body strength and muscles. My guess is when the stronger Wladimir grabs Fury in a vice-like clinch, Fury will stay grabbed until the referee splits them apart. Peter can yak all he wants about Wladimir’s grabbing technique not working against Fury, but I believe it ultimately will to keep him from throwing punches when Wladimir wants to keep him from throwing.

I honestly don’t think Wladimir will bother holding very much against Fury because I don’t think he’s going to need to. He’ll be too busy bombing him from long range with his powerful jabs, right hands and left hooks. Without Fury having the ability to fight on the outside due to his flexibility issues in being able to throw long shots, he’s going to be as helpless as a baby when Wladimir is standing at a distance.

Fury doesn’t throw long jabs. All of his normal pawing jabs are thrown at medium distance. He’s always in punching range of his shorter opponents due to his inability to bend at the waist to throw the longer jabs. As such, it really doesn’t help Fury that he’s the slightly taller fighter than Wladimir in this fight. The two to three inch height advantage, depending on if you actually believe Fury is 6’9” or not, won’t help him in this fight because he can’t throw long jabs from the outside.



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