By Scott Gilfoid: British heavyweight Tyson Fury (21-0, 15 KO’s) is all bent out of shape because the WBC dropped him to the No. 8 spot in their rankings recently following Fury’s blabbering about retiring from boxing due to his two fights with David Haye not materializing.
Fury now finds himself way down in the pack for a shot at the WBC heavyweight strap, which is the belt that Fury really wanted. But with his low rankings, Fury won’t be fighting for the WBC title for at least 2 years unless he’s given a chance to fight for the title in an optional defense for the winner of the Bermane Stiverne and Chris Arreola fight.
That’s definitely not going to happen though, so it looks Fury will need to be content with fighting local domestic guys. One fight that Fury really wants is against Dereck Chisora (19-4, 13 KO’s). It makes Fury feel good that he can definitely get that fight, although why he would want to take his career in reverse mode is anyone’s guess. It seems like a mickey mouse way of managing his career, but then again what can you say when he’s already sabotaging his career by saying he’s retiring after wasting 8 months trying to fight David Haye.
“I know one person who will definitely fight me and that’s Dereck Chisora,” Fury said to Buncey’s Boxing Podcast. “I already whipped him once…Hopefully he can give me a better fight this time.”
Will Fury going backwards with his career in fighting guys he already beat. You have to wonder how long before he chooses to fight Martin Rogan and Big John McDermott again. If he’s going to fight Chisora, then I suppose the other 18 opponents that Fury has beaten in the past are fair game.
I think it’s a bone-headed move by Fury to be fighting Chisora again, and it just tells me that Fury badly needs someone take over the planning for his career because he’s been making some really odd choices in selecting opponents. Fury could be locked in for a world title shot against Wladimir Klitschko right now if he hadn’t turned down a fight against Kubrat Pulev. But then again, Fury likely would have lost that fight, so maybe he’s better off being right where he is right now in looking to fight a retread opponent.
Fury shouldn’t assume that Chisora will be worth fighting again, because he’s got a fight coming up next month on February 15th against 2nd tier fighter Andriy Rudenko (24-0, 16 KO’s) at the Copper box Arena in London, and anything is possible in that fight. Chisora has looked terrible in his last three fights in beating Ondrej Pala, Edmund Gerber and Malik Scott. Controversy has followed Chisora in two of those fights with strange things happening.
He nailed Pala with two rabbit punches when he got out of position, while the referee stood there watching, and then gave him credit for a stoppage. Chisora’s fight with Scott was stopped when the referee halted the fight at the count of 9 after Scott got back to his feet following a rabbit punch knockdown in the 6th. Chisora was also staggered by Gerber. The fact that Chisora keeps getting hurt against 2nd tier opposition suggests that there’s no guarantee that he’ll get past Rudenko, even though he’s yet another 2nd tier fighter.
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