By Scott Gilfoid: Well, it looks like the injured Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) spoke too soon when he mentioned that the rematch with Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) would be taking place on October 29. Wladimir says the date hasn’t been set as of yet. They were supposed to fight two days ago on July 9, but Fury came down with an ankle injury.
Some would say the injury was a gift because it saved Fury from having to take the fight with Wladimir while still carrying round an abundance of jellyrolls around his midsection. Fury had no hope of losing that eight before the fight, and he clearly wouldn’t beaten Wladimir while carrying around 20 to 30 pounds of excess blubber.
With the rematch date still not set, Fury should have enough time to burn the remaining bit of fat off in time for the fight.
The IBO/WBA/WBO sanctioning bodies might need to think about changing Fury’s status from being an active champion to that of ‘Champion in Recess’ if his ankle injury doesn’t get better soon. You can’t just have Wladimir wait around for the remainder of his career while Fury licks his wounds. Sick bay commandos don’t work well in the sport of boxing. I mean, I wouldn’t want the 40-year-old Wladimir to devote the little time he has left of his fleeting youth being spent waiting on a hobbling Fury try to get over an ankle injury.
I imagine it can’t be easy on his injured ankle to support all the weight that Fury has packed on since his fight last November. If an ankle is used to holding a certain amount of weight, say 244lbs, and you then overload it with an extra 30 to 70 pounds of blubber in a short period of time, it’s not surprising that you’re seeing injuries in that area of the body.
Wladimir doesn’t know what to think with Fury’s delay in getting back into the ring. Wladimir is suspicious that Fury might have another reason for him delaying their rematch. He thinks that Fury might be looking to possibly unsettle him. I’m not sure if that’s the case. If it’s intentional on Fury’s part, then I doubt that it would be a situation where he’s trying to unsettle Wladimir.
I would think it would be used by Fury to burn off more blubber. I mean, if I had gone from being in tip top shape to that of an overweight guy by 60 to 70 pounds, I would want to take as much time as possible before I came back to the ring so that I could burn that weight off. I’m just saying. That’s what I would do. I would put Wladimir on the backburner and make him wait until 2017 before I slowly took the flab off.