By Sean McDaniel: Unbeaten heavyweight Tyson Fury (14-0, 10 KO’s) says he doesn’t care about the money as he approaches his July 23 fight against unbeaten British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Derek Chisora (14-0, 9 KO’s) at the Wembley Arena, Wembley, London. Fury, 6’9″, will have a huge height advantage over the 6’1″ Chisora in this fight. However, as we’ve seen in many of Fury’s other fights, he tends to give up his height immediately when pressed by allowing his opponents to crowd him.
Speaking with Ifilm London, Fury says “Money is the last thing I care about…I don’t fight for money, I fight for honor.”
Chisora obviously cares about money but also he cares about keeping his unbeaten record intact. That’s the main thing that Chisora is concerned with.
Fury’s new trainer Emanuel Steward is trying to teach Fury to use his height and reach to keep his shorter opponents on the outside where Fury can dominate with his jabs. But Fury has been slow in applying the things that Steward has been trying to teach him, as Fury still largely fights in close and tends to give up his reach without much of a struggle. Fury’s jab is weak compared to Steward’s other heavyweight pupil IBF/WBO Wladimir Klitschko. It’s doubtful that Fury will ever develop a jab even close to the one that Wladimir has in his arsenal.
But if Steward could make Fury’s jab better, and teach him how to throw a left hook, Fury could be a problem for a lot of heavyweights in the division. But in the meantime, Steward needs to try and keep Fury from letting Chisora get in close to hammer him. Chisora is the much better puncher on the inside compared to Fury, and if he’s allowed to keep the fight at close quarters on July 23, Fury will go down to defeat. Fury went life and death twice with big John McDermott, and that tells you that Fury might be in for a hard struggle against an even better fighter in Chisora.
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