By Scott Gilfoid: In less than three weeks from now, IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) and Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) will be battling it out on November 28th in what could be Fury’s final fight of his career depending on whether or not he’s serious about retiring if things turn out badly for him at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Klitschko, 39, says he thinks Fury is a couple of cans short of a six pack mentally, and he wants to give him a boxing lesson so that he can improve him as a person in the future. Wladimir recalls how the pounding that he gave David Haye four years ago seems to have helped him become a better person, and now he wants to do the same thing with the 27-year Fury.

It’s interesting to note that Haye has fought only once since that beating four years ago. Whether that was because of the lesson that he got from Wladimir is hard to say. But if Fury decides to retire or become an inactive fighter after his experience with Wladimir, then you have to figure that he learned a lesson from the fight.

Maybe it’s a lesson that tells Fury that he should look for another line of work and that he doesn’t belong in the ring with the talents.

“I know this will be therapy in a certain way. He definitely has some screws loose in his mind. We need to tighten it up and fix it,” Klitschko said to the telegraph.co.uk. “I think this is going to be a great experience for him (in the ring). This is a lesson I need to give to him.”

I think Fury is going to get that lesson unfortunately for him. Once Wladimir starts nailing Fury with his big left hooks and right hands, I see this fight ending as quickly as Wladimir’s 5th round knockout win over Kubrat Pulev last year in November.

I don’t rate Fury as being nearly as strong and as sturdy a fighter as Pulev. That’s why I see Fury getting taken out quickly unless he chooses to fight a safety first fight by electing to fight with his old “lean back” fighting strategy that he recently said he’ll be using for the fight.

If Fury does fight like that, then he’ll basically be admitting that he’s just there to lose the fight and survive rather than to try and actually win.

“I did the same with David Haye. My promise worked out very well there, when I said it was going to be a therapy and I’d make him a better person,” Wladimir said. “It eventually worked out and I’m really proud of David Haye. He did indeed become a better person.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vI5rWOYL-B4

Fury said that he’s going to come out and fight aggressively rather than try and box. He said he’s willing to go out on his shield if need be to try and win the fight. It’ll be interesting to see if Fury actually does this though, because he’s coming into this fight with no past experience fighting a talent like Wladimir.

We’re talking about a fighter who is flying blind here in the case of Fury. He’s been fighting such poor opposition for most of his career, and he’s not going to be even remotely prepared for the fighter he’s going to be facing in trying to deal with the 6’6” Wladimir on November 28th. I just hope Fury doesn’t quit in the ring, because that would look so bad.