By Scott Gilfoid: I imagine a lot of Brits are crying their eyes out because Tyson Fury (17-0, 12 KO’s) elected to relinquish his British and Commonwealth heavyweight straps rather than face his unbeaten mandatory challenger David Price (12-0, 10 KO’s).
But as much I’m not impressed with Fury’s skills, I think he did the right thing by protecting a future huge payday against one of the Klitschkos or WBA champion Alexander Povetkin or Marco Huck.
The money in those fights is much more than the peanuts that he’ll get in a fight against Price, so why take the risk? Only a fool would take that risk they were staring at the kind of payday that Fury is about to get. And we don’t even know yet how much money this guy can make.
We saw what a limited small ex-cruiserweight like David Haye was able to do by cherry picking exclusively old and slow heavyweights to parlor it into a win over WBA paper champion Nikolay Valuev and then take his way into a unification bout against Wladimir Klitschko. Heck, Fury would run the table against the heavyweights Haye beat to get a big money fight against Wladimir.
That’s all Fury needs to do is face four or five scrubs ranked in the top 15, and then pick up the WBA paper title and use it to get a big money fight against Wladimir. I don’t expect Vitali to be still around by the time Fury gets that many wins under his belt, but it’s possible if Fury’s promoter puts a flame under Fury’s backside and him fight five times in 2012. That’s what he should be doing and it’s a crime that the guy has been sitting on his flabby duff doing nothing since his last fight in November.
The guy should have fought twice by now. If I was his promoter I’d be putting him in once a week against the scrubs in the top 15, and forget about Price. Let that dude fight Berman Stiverne and prove that he can beat him. I don’t think he can. Stiverne will knock him out again.
An interesting thing about the Price-Fury negotiation is that Fury’s promoter Mick Hennessy offered Price a deal and he turned it down. According to sportinglife.com, Hennessy offered Price £100,000 to meet Fury on Channel 5, but the offer was turned down. So what are you going to do, eh?
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