Haye expects Fury to beat Wladimir easier in rematch

By Boxing News - 02/08/2016 - Comments

fury8912By Scott Gilfoid: According to David Haye, IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) will do an even better job of beating Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) in the rematch than he did in their previous fight in November of last year in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Haye thinks the Klitschko era is done and over with, and Fury will be the one to officially end it when/if the two big heavyweights fight each other for a second time. Right now, it still remains to be seen whether Fury and Wladimir will fight again.

Fury is looking to find out where the rematch will take place, and he’s been openly saying that he wants it to take place in the UK rather than in Germany again. Unfortunately for Fury, Wladimir is still arguably the A-side in the equation, even though he’s now just the contender and not the champion.

Wladimir can likely pretty much guarantee that the rematch would fill a 50,000 seat football stadium in Germany. Fury can’t do that in the UK, because he’s not fought in front of huge crowds over there during his career. In other words, Fury doesn’t seem to be able to attract the kinds of crowds that former super middleweight champion Carl Froch was able to attract in the tail end of his career.

“The Klitschko era is over,” he said to skysports.com.”Wladimir didn’t have the slightest sense of achievement in the first fight. I can even see the second time being even worse for him. But in the heavyweight division, anything can happen – and we just saw that.”

I don’t agree with what the 35-year-old Haye says. I think a rematch between Wladimir and Fury will go in Wladimir’s favor, not Fury’s. Wladimir has the offensive weapons to improve in a rematch. Fury doesn’t. If you saw Wladimir’s first fight against the tall 6’5” Tony Thompson in 2008, Wladimir fought timidly though most of the fight, as he was afraid to let his hands go for fear of being countered by Thompson. But in their rematch four years later, Wladimir came out fast throwing power shots, and he was able to stop Thompson within six rounds.

Wladimir looked like a completely different fighter compared to the first fight. He fought aggressively and wasn’t the same timid fighter that he’d been in their first fight in 2008. I think that’s the Wladimir we’re going to see in the rematch against Fury. Instead of Wladimir fighting defensively, he’s going to fight with aggression and really go after Fury to take him out.

I do believe that the Klitschko era is ending. Whether Wladimir beats Fury or not in the rematch, I think the Klitschko era is pretty much over at this point. If Wladimir wins the rematch with Fury, I don’t see Wladimir being able to go too much further with his career. Wladimir can milk his titles against weak opponents the same way that WBA light heavyweight champion Juergen Braehmer is doing, but I think he’ll increasingly be ignored by the hardcore boxing fans. The fans will focus on guys like Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz as the true champions, and Wladimir will be seen as a paper champion unless he chooses to face Wilder and Ortiz to show that he’s for real.

I think Wladimir would still beat Haye if the two of them faced each other. Wladimir defeated Haye by a 12 round decision in 2011 in a one-sided fight. A rematch would be the same in my view because Haye would still be too small, too limited and too timid to be able to beat the bigger 6’6” Wlaidmir.

The only reason that Wladimir struggled against the 6’9” Fury last November was because he found out the hard way that he didn’t know how to deal with his heat and reach. Wladimir was unable to make adjustments to his game when he found out early in the fight that he couldn’t land his jabs and left hooks. A smart fighter like Deontay would have made adjustments by choosing to start throwing right hands 60 times per round, but Wladimir’s ability to think and make changes to his game was slow.

His trainer Johnathon Banks and brother Vitali Klitschko were both telling Wladimir to start throwing punches, but they weren’t telling him what kind of punches to throw. If it had been me in Wladimir’s corner, I would have ordered him to throw only right hands and no jabs or left hooks. I also would have slapped Wladimir a couple of times in between rounds to wake him up because he looked like he was in total shock. He had that 1000 yard stare going on and wouldn’t snap out of it.



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