Tyson Fury says Klitschko is “boring and repetitive”

By Boxing News - 04/28/2016 - Comments

wladimir200By Scott Gilfoid: IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) chose to keep his shirt on for today’s press conference with Wladimir Klitschko (64-4-, 53 KOs) in Cologne, Germany to publicize their rematch on July 9 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester. UK.

Fury chose to focus instead on telling the media how boring he sees the 40-year-old Wladimir, and how the Ukrainian fighter even admitted that he didn’t try the last time he fought Fury in November of last year in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Fury, 6’9”, sees that as a confession that Wladimir is a loser and a safety-first fighter, because why would he not take the risks that he needed to take to try and win the fight?

“”I’ve been going to sleep there listening to him. Who really cares what we’ve all got to say?” Fury said via skysports.com. “Let’s give the fans a good fight. Let’s hope he comes to fight this time. He told me yesterday that he didn’t try to win the fight last time, so why would you support a let-down, a failure like him when you can have a champion like me?”

Yep, I do think Wladimir’s fighting and talking style are incredibly boring for me to watch and listen to. However, I think Fury is a dreadful replacement. Pick your poison. I don’t see Fury as being the cure to what ails the heavyweight division. The division needs punchers, not out of shape slappers and self-promoters like Fury.

If Fury could punch a little, and if he could stay in shape between fights rather than letting himself go like he’s got it made now and no longer needs to work hard. Fury made a mistake after beating Wladimir last November. Fury started eating and drinking and ballooned up in weight four stone [56 pounds], and you don’t do that when you still have a lot of hard work in front of you in terms of big fights.

Fury acted like he was retired from boxing rather than still fighting, and now he’s paying the price in having to try and melt down 60lbs pounds of fat that he put on in five months of eating. Fury is trying to take the weight off in just two months. That’s not easy to do. It took Fury five months to pack all that blubber on his frame, and taking it off in just two months is likely going to be very, very hard on his body. Talk about your stupid moves. I will never understand people that just live it up like they’ve got it made when they still haven’t retired.

“I see a stoppage in this fight. I don’t see it going to the distance. I’m not a man to exaggerate my words,” said Fury. “Look at the guy. He’s more to be admired than respected because he’s still here fighting at 40 years old, boring everybody to death.”

I doubt Fury will even come close to getting a knockout in this fight. If he had power like the late Corrie Sanders, then I would say that Wladimir is in for a world of hurt when he faces Fury on July 9 in their rematch at the Manchester Arena in Manchester. UK. Fury doesn’t have the weaponry to KO Wladimir. That’s why it was so incredibly weird the way Wladimir was giving Fury so much respect in their fight last November.

Wladimir acted like he was afraid to throw a shot and get countered afterwards, or afraid to get hit while throwing a punch. Fury was throwing constant slapping shots at the air in front of him to keep Wladimir from wanting to let his hands go.

It’s an old schoolyard trick that boys use when fighting someone that is far superior to them in power. But Wladimir acted like he was locked up mentally and not able to shift his mental gears to figure out that the best way to defeat the pawing air punches is to launch heavy artillery. I mean, Fury’s style would have been figured out in a split second by a talent like Deontay Wilder if he was sharing the ring with him, but Wladimir looked like he was seeing that schoolyard style for the first time and that’s pretty sad.

“Wladimir is a no-risk fighter. He doesn’t want to take any risks,” said Fury. “He might talk a good game and say he’s going to come and fight but I’m yet to see it. The only entertaining ones he had were when he lost by knockout, so that’s what happens when he tries to fight.”

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Fury wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire either last November in his fight against Wladimir. From what I recall of the fight, Fury was scratching at the air with pawing shots for 12 rounds, and not even attempting to show some offense. The only shots that Fury landed in the fight were ones where he hit Wladimir with weak slaps after the Ukrainian would throw a half-hearted right hand or left hook and wind up close enough for Fury to swat him one.

Wladimir was foolish not to fire back with his punches instead of just clinching, which is what he did all night long in this ugly to watch fight. But as far action from Fury, there’s wasn’t much. He fought like a scavenger rather than a meat eater. Fury wasn’t attempting to go after Wladimir in any real way the way he needed to for him to get the victory.

Fury’s trainer Peter Fury sees the Fury-Klitschko II rematch as a 50-50 fight. I think he might be right. Wladimir has the better chance of improving over last time, however, because he fought so passively. As such, unless Fury raises his game for the rematch, he could wind up getting knocked out or out-pointed. Wladimir looks like he’s ready to go out on his shield in this fight, and that could be bad for Fury because he’ll need to be able to take a lot of hard shots for him to win.

The thing that could wink Fury’s chances of winning this fight is how much weight he’s going to need to take off before he can fight. Losing 60 pounds of fat right before an important contest is not a good idea. Fury will be weaker for having lost the weight, and that’s going to hurt his punching power an likely his stamina as well.