Tyson Fury says he might retire after Klitschko fight

By Boxing News - 11/02/2015 - Comments

fury44By Scott Gilfoid: For the past two months, Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) has been carrying on about how he might retire if he loses to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) if he loses to him in their fight on November 28th at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusselforf, Germany.

Fury, 27, is now saying that he might retire even if he wins the fight. Boy, Fury is bellyaching about wanting to retire right before he’s about to enter the hardest part of his career. Is Fury a quitter? This will be so, so sad if he hangs up his gloves because it’s getting too tough for him.

“After this fight, I won’t have anything else to achieve and I’m on to a new part of my life,” Fury said to the bbc.com. “If I’ve not got the motivation to carry on anymore then what would be the point?”

I think smell fear from Fury. He’s now got only 26 days to go before he enters the ring with the hard hitting Ukrainian Klitschko, and I think it’s starting to get to him. Fury sounds like he’s got the case of the nerves, and he’s now wondering whether it’s worth it or not for him to carry on. I mean, I can understand Fury hanging up the gloves after he gets whipped by Wladimir.

I understand that part perfectly. But to hang up the gloves if he beats him. What in the heck is that all about? All I can think of is that Fury would be retiring rather than stepping into the ring with Deontay and having to deal with getting knocked around by him.

A lot of boxing fans don’t have a lot of respect for fighters that hang up their gloves while they’re still unbeaten. They see those fighters as being too focused on trying to protect their precious records rather than looking to achieve great things by fighting the best and doing all they can in the sport.

That’s a definitely a new twist in the spectrum, and has to make you wonder whether Fury has his the heart for the sport. It also makes you wonder whether Fury is getting smacked around by his sparring partners while he prepares for this fight. I mean, if Fury can’t dominate his sparring partners, then that could be planting some seeds of doubt in his mind about how he’ll do when he gets inside the ring with the 6’6” Klitschko and the talented 6’7” WBC champion Deontay Wilder. Have you ever thought about that? You find out a lot about yourself in training.

“You’ve got to give him [Wladimir] credit where credit is due because to take on a young, ambitious guy like myself who’s taller, bigger, faster, younger is a challenge in itself,” Fury said.

Oh brother, Fury is really patting himself on the back, isn’t he? How can the guy say he’s ambitious if he’s thinking about retiring win or lose on November 28th? I don’t see a quitter as being ambitious. I see quitters as being afraid of the challenges ahead of them. They see a scenario where things won’t be as good in the future as they were in the past, so they quit in order to avoid the possibility of failure. I see it over and over again with fighters and it’s just so, so sad.

As far as Fury being “faster” than Wladimir, I think he’s dreaming. Fury is definitely slower than Wladimir. He might be taller and younger than him, but so is Mariusz Wach. He was taller and younger than Wladimir, and he still got royally whipped.

I see the Klitschko-Fury fight as being little more than a mismatch on 11/28. Fury doesn’t have the power, chin, jab, mobility or the talent to win this fight. He’s just a big, slow and limited fighter in my view. It won’t be competitive at all because the first time that Fury comes forward trying to throw his slapping punches, Wladimir is going to nail him with a big left hook or right hand and put him on his backside. If Fury gets back to his feet, Wladimir will finish him off with a blizzard of punches that will leave him on the canvas with his head spinning.

If Fury wants to retire after he gets beaten by Wladimir, then so be it. He’ll look really bad though if that’s what he does. He’ll have to live with the defeat the rest of his life, and I imagine it’ll haunt him.



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