By William Mackay: Undefeated Tyson Fury (13-0, 9 KO’s) says doesn’t like heavyweight prospects fight lesser fighters while on their way up the chain, according to boxrec. On Saturday, the 22-year-old Fury faces the little known 30-yer-old Marcelo Luiz Nascimento (13-0, 11 KO’s) at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London, England.
Fury may not like heavyweight prospects fighting bums, but he recently called out Audley Harrison and was trying to get a fight against 42-year-old Francois Botha up until the BBBofC said no to that idea. Perhaps Fury sees Botha and Harrison as outstanding fighters. In that case, you wonder whether Fury is aware of how badly Botha and Harrison have been looking recently.
In an article at boxrec.com, Fury said “It angers me when you see so called heavyweight prospects keep having bums put in front of them every time. I don’t want to go through my career like that, I want to show them how it’s done, so I’m taking on this guy who has an unbeaten record and is a massive puncher, this is what you have to do to become a star.”
It doesn’t matter than Fury is taking on a fighter with an unbeaten record like Nascimento. The guy has no credible wins over top fighters, so you can throw out pretty much 100% of those wins. Fury is basically fighting a guy with a 0-0 record because has been matched softly his entire four year career against a lot of fighters with records like 0-12, 1-6, 0-2,and 1-2. How can you say someone is good when these are the kinds of opponents that Nascimento has built his fluff record on?
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