By Scott Gilfoid: After watching British heavyweight Tyson Fury (21-0, 15 KO’s) defeated 210 pound Steve Cunningham by a 7th round TKO last night in New York, I think it’s academic at this point to say that American knockout artist Deontay Wilder (27-0, 27 KO’s) would absolutely destroy the 24-year-old Fury if given the chance to fight him.
Weighing 44 lbs. more than his opponent, Fury knocked Cunningham out by putting his big left forearm across his head and then while holding him in place with that arm, Fury then connected with a right hook to knock him out. Needless to say the knockdown shouldn’t have counted because you can’t physically hold your opponent in position while you nail him with shots. That’s called holding and hitting and Fury got away with it last night big time. That obviously wouldn’t happen if Fury fought Wilder because Fury wouldn’t be able to easily shove Wilder to the ropes like he did against the much lighter Cunningham so that he could hold him in place and nail him with shots.
I say “if given the chance” because the talented 6’7” Deontay has already been ignored by Fury’s management in his attempts to get a fight against the 6’9” Fury and it seems pretty obvious they want no part of the big American hitter.
Last night, Fury was dropped by a right hand from Cunningham in the 2nd round. Cunningham is hardly a big puncher, but he loaded up with everything he had in his entire body and let loose with a hard right hand that caught Fury right on the chin to put him down. Cunningham isn’t like Deontay where he can land shots that would knock a hole through a brick wall.
Cunningham has to load up with every ounce of strength in his body to punch at a heavyweight level and we saw the results last night with him knocking Fury down. Now just imagine Fury being in the ring with Deontay, who can punch much, much harder than Cunningham with every punch and he doesn’t need to load up with his shots to punch that way.
Deontay naturally punches incredibly hard and he can do it all night long and he doesn’t have to load up. Cunningham was unable to tag Fury with another big shot after that one big shot because it took so much out of his body to land that one shot. It was like a battery that drained down after he loaded up with that punch. He didn’t have the strength to load up again.
It wouldn’t be that way with Deontay. He’d have tagged Fury with a big right hand that he’d never gotten back from, but if he did he would be met with similar huge shots, one after another. It doesn’t end with Deontay because he wouldn’t tire and lose his strength.
Deontay faces Audley Harrison this Saturday night in a scheduled 10 round bout from Sheffield, UK. This is Deontay’s coming out party and he’s going to open some eyes in the boxing world with a highlight knockout win over Audley. This could be a really sick knockout and I hope there’s a good medical staff at the ready for this fight because I’d hate to see Audley without good care if he gets hurt from one of Deontay’s sledgehammer right hands.
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