By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury reports that he’s made a tiny dent in losing some of the 300+ pounds that he’s currently weighing. On Tuesday, the 28-year-old Fury said that he’d lost 18 pounds since he started training, and the weight is “melting off,” as he puts it. If this is true, then Fury has roughly 100 lbs. still to go before he gets back down to his old fighting weight of 250lbs. 100 pounds is a TON of weight. I wouldn’t be celebrating right now if I were Fury, because he’s got a lot of fat to still burn off, and when you get down to certain weight, it gets tough to burn those stubborn pounds off. Personally, I’ve never been fat, but I hear how that’s how it is with people that pack on over 100 lbs. like Fury did.
“The weights melting off, I’ve lost 18 pounds already,” said Fury on his Instagram in talking about how he’s shedding the tonnage. ”I can definitely see and notice the difference. I’m feeling fitter. Everything is going good.”
I want to be positive about Fury’s weight issues. It’s hard to see a good outcome for him though. He wants to make a comeback to boxing, but he still doesn’t have his boxing license. There’s a possibility that the British Boxing Board of Control could give him back his license this week. I don’t know if they will or not. But even if they do, Fury has a lot of weight to drop before he can fight again. He’s got this crazy notion that he doesn’t need to take a tune-up fight before facing IBF/WBA heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.
I don’t think that’s a smart thing for Fury to do, but I do believe him when he says he won’t take a tune-up. I think he’s totally serious. Fury’s plan is to lose as much weight as possible and then go straight into a fight against Joshua. I don’t know if the outcome for Fury will be a positive one. I mean, Joshua is as flawed as can be for a world champion, but I think he’ll still have a very good chance of Fury goes straight from training camp, which is arguably little more than a fat farm right now, into a fight with Joshua. I don’t see a good outcome for Fury.
What’s the big rush for Fury? He’s only a year older than the 27-year-old Joshua. It’s not as if Fury is in a big hurry to take the fight. Fury seems to be rushing to get the Joshua fight, as if he thinks he needs to take the fight before someone else beats him before he does. Joshua will definitely lose in the near future to someone in my opinion, but that’s just how it goes in the heavyweight division. Fury will lose too when he comes back. Sooner or later someone will whip him. But I don’t think Fury should be in a rush to fight Joshua, because he needs ot make sure he’s at his best when he fights him so that he has the best chance possible to defeat him.
Joshua has been busy in the last 2 years that Fury has been out of the ring following his win over Wladimir in 2015. Joshua has had fights against Charles Martin, Dillian Whyte, Dominic Breazeale, Eric Molina and Wladimir Klitschko. Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn has kept him busy by putting him in with one opponent after another on Sky Box Office, and it doesn’t matter that most of those heavyweights were mediocre fighters. The fact that Joshua has been busy all this time will give him a big advantage when he gets around to fighting Fury.
Fury was lying in bed when he created his Instagram post. This is Fury’s second Instagram post in a week with him lounging around on his backside, talking about this or that. When I see Fury talking about losing weight, it’s hard to take him seriously with him not on his feet or at least sitting in the upright position.
Maybe the weight loss is sapping the strength out of Fury to the point where he’s just lounging around when he’s not working out. If it were me, I wouldn’t lay down until evening. I’d want to keep in motion so I can lose more all that fat that I’d put on. After all, Fury says he wants to come back and beat Anthony Joshua to get his heavyweight titles back. That weight isn’t going to come off with Fury lying around. The guy has got to get out there and do some exercises. I’m just saying.
In a different note, I don’t know what the heck happened to Fury’s voice. It sounds like he’s been gargling with razor blades when he speaks. In the last month or two, I’ve noticed that he sounds like he’s got some kind problem with his throat. To me, he sounds almost like his father when he speaks. It’s kind of a rough, gravely type of voice. I wonder if that’s how Fury’s voice is going to be from now on. If so, I don’t think it’s going to help his singing any. If he decides to grab the microphone inside the ring in the future, it’s going to be hard for me to handle listening to him croaking like a frog. He sounds awful just talking with the way his voice is now. I can’t imagine him belting out a song. It would be punishing to the ears.
Even if Fury doesn’t take off the remaining 100 lbs. before he fights next, he should take off as much as he can and then look to start fighting some tune-up bouts against guys like David Allen, Gary Cornish, Dereck Chisora and Dillian Whyte. If Fury can get past all those guys, then I think he’d have a better chance against Joshua when the time comes. Don’t get me wrong; I think Fury would have an excellent chance of beating Joshua even if he came into the fight weighing 300 lbs., but I think that he stand a much better chance if he gets all the weight off.
Fury is currently training in Marbella, Spain along with WBO middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders who is getting ready for his June 8 title defense against Avtandil Khurtsidze. Saunders is really heavy as well. He hasn’t revealed his weight lately, but a couple of week s ago, Saunders looked to be at least 190 pounds. Fury has good company in being able to train with another fighter that is overweight like him.
Fury says he can beat Joshua with one arm tied behind his back. I want to see he outcome of the two of them fighting each other. A month, I would have picked Joshua to obliterate Fury in short order if the two of them were to face each other. But I think Joshua is going downhill at this point in his career. Joshua’s zenith of his career was when he first turned pro at 225lbs in 2013. Joshua has put on a lot of muscle weight since then and he’s no longer fast. Being over-muscled is almost the same as being fat. Fury might do well against Joshua even if he’s still fat. However, Fury needs to be in condition, and that means he’s got to build up his stamina so that he doesn’t run out of gas against him.