By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten trash talking heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) is suddenly talking like he’s become a knockout artist rather than the 6’9” light hitting slapper that many boxing fans know him as. Fury, 24, faces fringe contender Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) next month on April 20th at Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York, New York, USA.
Fury sees himself winning by an easy KO as soon as he traps Cunningham and forces him to fight. Fury is expecting that Cunningham will run from him like he did against Tomasz Adamek last December in Cunningham’s controversial loss.
Fury said to Fightnews.com “He [Cunningham] will run, I’m sure of it, but as soon as I get hold of him and hit him with a couple of good shots, he’ll be on the floor…I will definitely become the first man to stop him.”
I don’t see how Fury will be able to stop Cunningham without power. I mean, I rate cruiserweights Yoan Pablo Hernandez, Wayne Braithwaite, Marco Huck and Krzysztof Wlodarczyk as being much bigger punchers than Fury, and yet Cunningham had no problem taking their power. Adamek is a bigger puncher than Fury as well, and Cunningham wasn’t bothered by his power.
The thing with Fury is he’s huge but the power just isn’t there. In terms of power, Fury is more like an average light heavyweight. He can’t punch as hard as the strongest light heavyweights like Sergey Kovalev, but he’s definitely in the light heavyweight class in the power department.
What makes Fury a tough opponent is he has long arms and he throws a lot of punches that keep his opponents busy on defense. The way for Cunningham to beat Fury is to move around ring to stay out of range, and then every once in a while come at him and light him up with flurries to the head.
Fury can’t fight worth a lick when an opponents gets in close, and so that’s where Cunningham needs to be when he’s hitting him with six-punch combos. All shots have to go to the head of Fury because he’s got a weak chin, and is liable to hit the canvas at any time if Cunningham is able to hit him on the chin with one of his combos.
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