By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (28-0, 28 KO’s) made easy work of British heavyweight Audley Harrison (31-7, 23 KO’s) tonight in smashing him out in a one round blowout at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield, UK. Deontay left Audley in a heap in the corner after hitting him with an avalanche of punches after stunning him with a huge right hand to the head.
When asked after the fight who he wants to fight next, Deontay said “Fee fi fum fum, I’m the man with the right hand bomb. Tyyyyson Fuuuuury. Oh where oh where, oh where can he be? For he the next man that I wanna see. Sheffield, England, do you agree?”
Obviously, Fury was watching tonight’s Wilder-Harrison fight and likely heard what Deontay said, but it’s also painfully obvious that Fury won’t want to get in the ring with a wrecking crew puncher like Wilder. Fury talks a good game but he won’t step it up to face a talent like Wilder.
Deontay punches WAY too hard for the 6’7” Fury and it wouldn’t be a fight. About the height: Fury says he’s 6’9”, but his last opponent Steve Cunningham says Fury isn’t 6’9”, and after seeing the two fighters in the ring in New York, I tend to believe Cunningham. Fury looks more like 6’7”, which is why when he was pictured standing next to the 6’6″ Wladimir Klitschko, Fury looked only one inch taller.
Deontay and Fury would be the same height, but the difference in speed, power and athleticism would be in Deontay’s favor by a huge margin. I can’t see Fury making it out of the 1st round against Wilder because the 1st big punch that Deontay lands will likely result in Fury hitting the deck like he was when he got dropped by Cunningham in the 2nd round earlier this month.
If Fury were to get up from a knockdown from Wilder, Deontay would flurry on him with huge shots that would finish Fury off. That’s the way it is.
Cunningham didn’t have the ability to finish Fury off after knocking him down because it took everything when he loaded up on that big shot. In that one punch, Cunningham nailed Fury with a punch that perhaps half as hard as one of Deontay’s best shots. But with Deontay, he keep punching with huge power with every shot he throws and Fury would not make it out of the first round, and you can add the other top British heavyweights David Price and David Haye to that list. None of them would make it out of the 1st round with Deontay because the power difference is just too vast.
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