By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated British and Commonwealth heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (15-0, 10 KO’s) is trying his best to make his journeyman opponent Nicolai Firtha (20-8-1, 8 KO’s) seem like a credible threat for this Saturday’s fight at the Kings Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Fury sees this fight as being an exciting one for fans while it lasts. However, it Firtha doesn’t have great offensive skills, and doesn’t punch hard or posses good hand speed. It’s difficult to see this as exciting fight when Fury is facing a guy without any real offensive tools.
At least in his last fight against Derick Chisora, Fury was facing a guy that could punch a little. Firth can’t punch and is just slow and hittable. It’s a mismatch, and a good record-padding fight, nothing more. Firtha isn’t someone that will improve Fury’s game unless his idea of improve is beating C level fighters. Firtha is no threat to Fury, and the only thing we can look forward to in this fight is to see how good Fury looks. He sometimes fights impressively, but the looks dreadful in his fights. He’s not consistent and it goes beyond just conditioning. Fury is sloppy, period.
“Don’t blink because it is going to be an all action showdown between two big heavyweights and we are both coming to win,” Fury said in an interview at boxrec.com. This isn’t going to be an all action fight because Firtha isn’t an all action fighter. He’s kind of the opposite of that. If you look at Firtha’s fights, he’s more of a stand around, take a lot of head shots, throw an occasional weak jab-type heavyweight. He’s a good safe opponent for Fury, that’s all. Fury can win this fight, look good and then crow about it, and that’s probably what Fury will be doing a lot of afterwards.
“It will be a stiff test and if I get through this then the sky is the limit. Klitschkos, I’m coming.”
I’m sorry but Fury seems to be both deluded and a politician at the same time. He’s really building this Firtha guy up as if he’s a contender instead of a journeyman that was knocked out by Tye Field. If this is Fury’s idea of a stiff test then there isn’t much to expect from Fury during his career. Firtha would be a stiff test for a B level fighter, so what does that make Fury?
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