By Scott Gilfoid: IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) expects former unified world champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) to come out looking for a knockout in their rematch this year when it eventually takes place.
Fury, 27, believes that Wladimir doesn’t have faith in his ability to box him and win a decision, so he’ll be looking to swing for the fences to try and get Fury out of there. It’s hard to understand where Fury gets his confidence from because he barely beat Wladimir last November in their fight in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Fury looked horrible, and the only reason he won the fight was because Wladimir failed to make any adjustments after he discovered that he couldn’t land his jabs and left hooks. If I had been in Wladimir’s corner, I would have slapped some sense into him by telling him in forceful words that he needed to use only his right hand and that he needed to commit to it 100 percent.
Wladimir was fighting like he was afraid the entire fight. Just what he was afraid of, I’ll never know, because Fury was just slapping like he usually does. It was just harmless slaps from Fury, the kind of shots that wouldn’t hurt a fly. Wladimir was acting like he was in the ring with the late and highly talented Corrie Sanders instead of the slap happy Fury.
“I think Klitschko will come to knock me out because he can’t outbox me,” Fury said to RingTV.com. “In order for him to do that, he has to plant his feet and, when he does, he’ll be wide open to the counter and wide open to being knocked out himself. The rematch won’t go the distance. Either he knocks me out or I’ll knock him out.”
Oh brother, Fury is having delusions of grandeur again in blabbering about how he’s going to KO Wladimir if he sits down on his punches. Nothing of the sort is going to happen. If Wladimir really sits down on his shots and throws his punches with mean intentions each time he lets his hands go, then he’ll finish Fury off in a round or two. I mean, I can see Wladimir missing with 90% of his right hands that he throws, because his accuracy has gone out the window now that he’s gotten old and kind of feeble. But the 10% of right hands that he does land to Fury’s gob, will be more than enough for him to get the knockout in the first couple of rounds.
I figure that Wladimir should be able to KO Fury with a maybe eight or nine hard head shots. This means if Wladimir throws 60 right hands in the 1st round alone, he could very well get the job done even if he only lands six good shots with his right in that round. If Fury makes it out of the 1st, he’ll be half buzzed from the six right hands that he was nailed by. Fury will come out in the 2nd round with him half stunned, and Wladimir will then likely poleaxe him with one of the six big rights that he lands in that round.
“Before the first fight, Klitschko was saying his former trainer Emanuel Steward predicted that Tyson Fury would beat him but that’s just a myth. Now he knows it’s a fact and that’ll be at the back of his mind. Mentally he’s a weak character and I think he’s 80 percent beaten already,” Fury said.
I think Fury is projecting. If anyone is 80 percent beaten, I see it as him, not Wladimir.
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