Tyson Fury mouthing off about Deontay Wilder

By Boxing News - 11/04/2015 - Comments

fury111By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) is all bummed out at the news that WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) isn’t going to throw him a bone by giving him a gift world title shot after Fury gets knocked out by IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko this month on November 28th in their fight at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Wilder recently said he’s not going to bother fighting Fury after he loses to Wladimir, because he doesn’t see the point in fighting him. Why fight Fury after he gets exposed by the 39-year-old Klitschko, because all Wilder would be getting is sloppy seconds after that. This isn’t a charity case.

Wilder wouldn’t get any credit, even he blasts Fury to into the upper deck of whatever stadium they would be fighting in. Boxing fans would say that Fury has already been whipped previously, so it wouldn’t be a big deal for Wilder to smash him to smithereens too.

“Because he’s afraid,” Fury said to Michelle Phelps about Wilder’s recent comments about not wanting to bother fighting Fury when/if he loses to Wladimir Klitschko on November 28th. “Why would somebody say that? Whoever Klitschko loses, wins or whatever or if he gets knocked out in five seconds, do you not think he’s still a big name to fight somebody? If I beat Klitschko in five rounds…If Canelo loses to Mayweather, Cotto’s ain’t going to fight him because he’s not worth fighting anymore? That happened and Cotto is still fighting him. It’s just an excuse. Wilder does not want to fight me. He was offered a substantial amount [of money] when David Haye pulled out a few years ago for him to step in, and he didn’t take the opportunity. He’s been offered to fight 10 times. Now that he’s signed with Al Haymon, I don’t think the fights going to happen at all. He’s a very clever, shrewd business guy, Al Haymon. I don’t think he’s going to risk the only American heavyweight champion in a long time. He’s just going to build him up on dummies, and let him keep beating them up and knocking them over,” Fury said.

I like how Fury tries to compare himself to Saul “Canelo” Alvarez’s situation after he got totally schooled by Floyd Mayweather Jr. I’m sorry but Fury isn’t in the same class as Canelo Alvarez in the heavyweight division. I mean, Canelo maybe a flawed fighter at 154 and 160, but he at least fights the talents every once in a while and beats some of them. Fury has only fought one semi-decent fighter in Dereck Chisora, and even he’s not that good.

The rest of the fighters that Fury has fought have been fodder jobs. As far as Wilder turning down a fight against Fury in the past, it must not have been a lot of money for him to turn the fight down. I couldn’t see Wilder turning down a fight against the light hitting Fury if there were a lot of money in the fight. Of course, Wilder is going to turn down a fight against Fury if it’s for chickenfeed with Fury getting the lion’s share of that sweet cash.

If Wilder and Fury are going to fight each other in the future, you can bet that it’s either going to be a 50-50 deal or with Wilder getting most of the money. Let me remind you; Wilder is a world champion, and the last time I checked, Fury is just a challenger about to face Wladimir. However, Wilder sure as heck isn’t going to give Fury a 50-50 deal once he gets knocked out by Wladimir.

If Wilder is going to give to charity by fighting Fury after he gets massacred by Klitschko, then I see the deal being somewhere along the lines of a 70-30 purse split of the loot with Wilder taking the big money. Fury would have to be happy getting even 30 percent, because he won’t be in the position to ask for a lot of that cash.

“I don’t think he’s [Wilder] had any competition,” Fury said. “He’s only had one fight in his career in my opinion, and that’s Bermane Stiverne, who was a good champion and a very dangerous fighter, but for whatever reason didn’t turn up in his prime shape that he should have been in. His opposition, Wilder, is not so good. He’s fighting low level bums, really, people on Hughie’s level; guys with 16 fights, who aren’t heavyweight champions of the world, and he could beat those guys. So the heavyweight champion of the world isn’t taking on all comers. He’s picking and choosing his clients and he’s learning on the job, because he started boxing late. He’s had limited amateur experience, so he’s learning all the time. That’s why he had to have 30 fights before he stepped up, and then he stepped back down again. So they’re trying to learn him how to fight while he’s champion; it’ good management, in other words. They did offer him [Hughie Fury] the fight for September 26th or something, but they offered him just a few weeks’ notice to prepare, and that ain’t going to be enough. They knew Peter [Fury] couldn’t get into the U.S, so therefore he’s going to have nobody in his corner. I couldn’t go with him because I was preparing for my own big fight. So he was going to go over there alone to face the champion, and it’s not going to happen, not on three weeks’ notice. So eventually that fight will be able to happen between him and Hughie or me and him, but it’s going to have to be on neutral terms rather than on a couple of weeks’ notice,” Fury said.

Talk about biting the hand that feeds. Wilder, out of the kindness of his heart, was offering the 6’6” Hughie Fury a world title shot at his belt last September, and instead of being grateful and bowing down to show their happiness at being offered a title shot that they don’t deserve, we’re seeing Fury and Hughie both hap about getting the fight on short notice.

I don’t see any of the other heavyweight champions lining up to give young Hughie a world title shot that he doesn’t deserve. He should have taken it, even if it were offered to him with only one day’s notice. I remember not too long again top 15 contender Alexander Ustinov agreeing to a last minute fight against Fury with only one weeks’ notice.

If Ustinov was willing to take a non-title fight against Fury with only a weeks’ notice, then Hughie should have agreed to a world title shot. I mean, we’re probably talking more money here for Hughie, and it’s not as if he’s going to be getting any other world title shots in the future.

For all we know, Hughie could get beaten by his opponent Nicolai Firtha on November 28th, and when/if that happens, Hughie will be kicking himself for not agreeing to the Wilder fight. Just think of what Hughie could have done with that cash. He could have bought a nice place in London all to himself, or he could have purchased an expensive car to drive around.

“As it stands, Deontay Wilder is not a big draw in the U.S. He’s not a big star. He sells maybe 5 to 10,000 tickets when he boxes in his hometown defending his championship of the world,” Fury said. “If he comes over here it would sell out a stadium, with maybe 40-50,000. So I’d say I’m in the driver’s seat for that fight, even though he’s the champion. I have more pull than he does, and after I beat Klitschko in a minute, I’ve got all the belts, so I’ll have all the say. The way I see it, I’ve got two Klitschko fights, if he wants the rematch, and then I’ll have Wilder and then whoever else is next,” Fury said.

I hate to be the one to break this to Fury, but he’s not going to be in position to call the shots a talent like Wilder after he loses to Klitschko. The only guy Wilder will be concentrating on at that point is Wladimir. Fury will need to take a backseat and watch the fight at ringside in the audience or at home on television. In other words, Fury will need to seriously rebuild his career after a loss to Wladimir. I suspect it’ll take Fury two or three years to get back to where he is right now. Of course, there would be a shortcut for Fury to take back to the top if he could prove himself by beating the winner of the Luis Ortiz vs. Bryant Jennings fight, but I don’t see Fury getting within 3000 miles of that winner.



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