Fury vs. McDermott II this Friday: Will Tyson retire if he loses?

By Boxing News - 06/21/2010 - Comments

Image: Fury vs. McDermott II this Friday: Will Tyson retire if he loses?By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten Tyson Fury (10-0, 8 KO’s) will have his career on the line this Friday night in his rematch against Big John McDermott (25-6, 16 KO’s) at the Brentwood Centre, Brentwood, Essex. This is the rematch of their controversial 10 round decision last September. Fury, 22, won that fight by a controversial 10 round decision by the score of 98-92.

Last time, Fury won a referee’s decision. But this time there’s going to be three judges scoring the bout, which should, in theory, make for a less controversial bout if everything goes alright. Fury looked weak in that fight and appeared to have over-trained, even though he still have fat around his sides. He looked less powerful than he had been in previous bouts for some reason.

McDermott was able to walk right through Fury’s shots and get inside and land hard right hands. The 6’7” Fury’s four inch height advantage over the 6’3” McDermott was meaningless, because McDermott appeared to have no respect for Fury’s power and just came forward regardless of what Fury was throwing.

Fury and McDermott will be fighting for the vacant BBB of C English heavyweight title. The fight is interesting because of what happened last time they fought, and because the unbeaten Fury is saying that he’ll retire if he loses to McDermott. This gives the fight an added interest, because Fury looked by many accounts to be the loser in that fight, and it’s hard to imagine that Fury will be much better this time than he was in the last fight.

Unless Fury can find some power somewhere and learn how to fight on the outside more, he’s very likely going to absorb a lot of punishment from McDermott again. Like last time, Fury will probably be the busier fighter of the two.

However, McDermott, for his part, will probably land the cleaner and more powerful shots. This means the referees will have to decide whether to give score Fury’s weaker but more numerous shots or McDermott’s harder shots.

If Fury hasn’t improved from last time, he could very well lose this fight and if he’s telling the truth about retiring if he loses, be at the end of his career. Only 22, Fury should be able to make changes to his fighting style and improve from last time. However, he looked so remarkably bad last time that he would need to make serious changes for him to be able to beat McDermott without controversy this time. The lack of power was one thing, but more of a concern was Fury’s horrible defense. He looked really unskilled when defending himself and seemed to have no idea how to block punches or to get out of the way of them.



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