Tyson Fury says he has some big news to reveal

By Boxing News - 08/18/2016 - Comments

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By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) says he has some big news to reveal in the next few years, and boxing fans can only hope it’s about his rematch with Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs). Fury already postponed the fight earlier this year when he suffered an ankle injury while training. The two heavyweights are supposed to be facing each other on October 29 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK. However, with the news that the 40-year-old Wladimir is talking about wanting to take the negotiations with Fury to court, it leaves you to question how well things are going between the two heavyweights.

As far Fury’s big news that he wants to reveal to the boxing world, I can only imagine it being one of two things: 1. Fury is retiring or 2. The negotiations issues with Wladimir have been ironed out and the fight is ready to take place on October 29.

I can’t really predict what Fury is going to do because he’s totally unpredictable. I don’t believe Fury’s heart is still in the sport. I think he’s done and is just going through the motions at this point with his boxing career. Fury made a boatload of money for his fight against Wladimir last November, and he’s going to make even more in the rematch if it takes place.

Fury says he wants big unification fights against Deontay Wilder and Anthony Joshua. I do believe Fury might fight one or even both of those guys, but it will be without his IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight titles, because I expect him to lose them against Wladimir in the rematch unless he vacates them to avoid facing the Ukrainian a second time.

I don’t know how much interest there is in a second fight between Fury and Wladimir. It’s too bad there was a rematch clause in the contract because I think these guys need to move on. Their fight last November was so boring that it wasn’t even funny. They both looked like they didn’t want to fight, as they circled each other all night long and did next to nothing in terms of fighting.

A rematch between them will likely be the same kind of fight with both guys just looking at each other for 12 rounds without doing anything. Fury will throw jabs constantly that aren’t meant to hit Wladimir. The punches will be just a tool for Fury to keep Wladimir from having any thoughts of attacking him. It’ll be the same limp, noodle jab that Fury always throws. If Wladimir can’t get him to attack anyway, then it’ll be sad night. Fury’s feather-fisted punches wouldn’t keep a talent like Deontay off of him. Deontay would throw right hands all night long and I couldn’t see the fight lasting more than two of three rounds.

Wladimir looks like he doesn’t have his hand-eye coordination any longer in my opinion. He was a good heavyweight during the prime of his career, but he seems to have lost something in the last couple of years. If you compare the Wladimir that fought Fury last November to the Wladimir that beat Alexander Povetkin in 2013, it’s like night and day. Wladimir was still fighting at a high level back then. Two years later, Wladimir looked completely shot against Fury last November from what I could see of the fight. I don’t think Wladimir is going to improve much from that performance other than throwing more right hands. I think Wladimir will win, but I suspect he’s still going to look poor despite getting the win.

If Wladimir gets some crazy ideas of continuing his boxing career beyond the Fury rematch, then I see it ending badly for Wladimir with him losing to one of the top heavyweights in the division and getting sent into retirement. In other words, I don’t see Wladimir making a graceful exit to the sport in finishing with a win like his other brother Vitali Klitschko. He got out of the sport on a high with hi beating Manuel Charr. I don’t see Wladimir doing the same thing. I think he’s going to stay too long and wind up taking more defeats.

As far as Wladimir’s rematch with Fury goes, it’s going to be a difficult fight for him, because he’ll need to cut off the ring on Fury in order to land his shots. Fury will be circling the ring nonstop like he did in the first fight. I think we’re going to see Fury doing a ton of holding in order to keep Wladimir from hitting him with power shots. I see Fury taking a page out of Kell Brook’s playbook by electing to hold over 10 times per round to stall out the fight.