Tyson Fury bragging about dealing with pressure

By Boxing News - 04/22/2016 - Comments

fury49By Scott Gilfoid: IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) is bragging about how the pressure isn’t getting to him as he prepares for his rematch against 40-year-old Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) on July 9 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK.

Fury ballooned up in weight after his narrow and ugly to watch 12 round decision victory over Wladimir las November. Fury has been said to be over 40 pounds’ overweight as he started his training camp recently. The 27-year-old Fury has a little over two months to burn the blubber off of his frame so that he can make a good fight of it against Klitschko on 7/9.

It appears that Fury is following the same path as former UK star Ricky Hatton, who used to put on a lot of flab in between fights with his lifestyle. Hatton got away with his healthy lifestyle for a while, but it eventually caught up to him and he found himself no longer effective in the ring.

I think we may soon see the same thing happening with Fury with him getting torn apart by Wladimir, and then blown out by Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder if he Fury can even get either of those fights after he loses to Wladimir.

“My desire is back. I’ve got that fire back in me. It’s not the desire to go and win belts, but it’s a desire to keep them. They are mine. I won them,” said Fury to skysports.com. “I don’t bother with pressure – it’s nothing. I’ve got one foot in the pressure cooker, the other one in the frying pan.”

Oh brother, Fury is getting carried away in patting himself on the back, isn’t he? The guy starts training camp and has been hitting the stairs to carve off the fat, and all of a sudden he’s talking himself up something fierce. I don’t know what pressure Fury has been handling at this point in the training camp other than the pressure of having to get up in the morning and go train.

Fury certainly hasn’t had to deal with pressure during his pro career. I mean, he just had that one fight against an old and past it 40-year-old Wladimir, who looked totally shot last November. Fury still hasn’t faced anyone good that is in the prime of their careers like Deontay. Now that’s pressure. I wonder why Fury still hasn’t faced Deontay? We’re seeing Fury fight old timers like Wladimir and bragging about it, but for some reason he’s not faing the real talents like Deontay and Luis “the Real King Kong” Ortiz.

“I am an established champion, I am the No 1 in the division and as far as I am concerned, I’ve got all the belts I won because I didn’t lose them,” said Fury. “Did anyone beat me for the IBF? I am still the IBF champion no matter what paper says, I never lost that belt in the ring.”

Well, it looks like Fury is still harping about his long lost IBF title that was stripped from him recently after he failed to follow the International Boxing Federation’s simple request to fight the IBF mandatory challenger Vyacheslav Glazkov. Whose fault was it that Fury didn’t take the fight? He’s the one that royally blew it. If he hadn’t made the mistake of signing a rematch clause for his first fight against Wladimir, then he still would have gotten the fight and could have moved on to bigger and better things after beating him last November.

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