By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten Tyson Fury (14-0, 10 KO’s) is being put in a sink or swim fight against a major puncher in 38-year-old Hasim Rahman (49-7-2, 40 KO’s) on April 16th on the undercard of the Amir Khan vs. Paul McCloskey fight at the M.E.N. Arena, in Manchester, England.
The Rahman-Fury fight may turn out to be the best bout on the card, because the main event between Khan and McCloskey looks like a dud, and undercard is filled with obscure fighters that only British hardcore fans would recognize. I’m not talking casual British boxing fans. I’m talking the hardcore fans.
From what I can see, the Fury-Rahman fight is the only fight worth watching on the whole pathetic card. Forget about the main event, that’s pretty much a set up fight for Khan. It’s like lobbing a softball to a baseball player that can’t hit a fastball. Khan has been marched against a weak puncher. Khan will win this without getting stunned blasted around the ring like he was in his last fight. But I’m intrigued by the Fury-Rahman fight. That’s going to be interesting because the 6’9” Fury only knows how to fight one way and that’s to slug it out. He has no real boxing ability and his jab is more like a weak back than anything.
Rahman is going to walk through Fury’s sloppy-looking shots and tee off on his head with some major power shots. Rahman is definitely not the same fighter he once was, but if you put him in with a novice without any defensive skills like Fury and let him have it for five or six rounds, Rahman is going to knock that fighter out 99 out of a 100 times. Fury is the type of fighter that Rahman does really well against.
This is going to be similar fodder for him like the guys he’s been facing since he was stopped by Wladimir Klitschko in 2008. Rahman has fought Clinton Boldridge, Shannon Miller, Damon Reed and Marcus McGee. Fury is very similar to these fighters in talent, and Rahman is probably chomping at the bit waiting to knock the tall and largely unskilled Fury into next year. Rahman is a professional fighter with 59 bouts and 289 rounds boxed against a lot of top fighters compared to Fury’s 14 fights and 63 rounds.
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