By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (22-0, 16 KOs) might be on the verge of finding out his own fate at a heavyweight when he faces Dereck Chisora (20-4, 13 KO’s) this month on July 26th at the Phones 4u Arena in Manchester, UK.
In an enlightening moment, Fury said that he feels that if he can’t beat a journeyman like Chisora then he too must be a journeyman. It’s pretty interesting because the 6’9” Fury might be forced to come to terms with what he is in terms of his own talent and future outlook in the heavyweight division when he battles Chisora. I mean, if Fury can’t blast out Chisora, and if he struggles and loses or if he even just struggles, then that’ll probably be a pretty good indication of where Fury is going.
Chisora has already been beaten in the four times he stepped it up in his career. His wins have all come against fodder opposition. So if Fury loses to Chisora, then that kind of tells you where he’s at in the large scheme of things in the heavyweight division.
Fury said via Skysports.com: “For me this is nothing more than a stepping-stone fight. This is Dereck Chisora’s final crack at the whip – but for me this is a stepping stone. Dereck Chisora is a journeyman, what champions do to journeyman’s is they smash them to bits. If I can’t smash him to bits then I must be a journeyman too.”
So there it is. I think Fury isn’t just saying that if he loses the fight, he’ll be a journeyman. If I read this fight, if Fury has to struggle to beat Chisora by a 12 round decision then he’ll be a journeyman too. I think that could ultimately make sense once we see Fury facing better opposition than the poor opponents he’s faced.
For Fury to become an eventual journeyman, it’s going to require for him to stop facing awful opposition he built his unbeaten record on, and instead step it up and take on some live bodied like Deontay Wilder, Chris Arreola, Andy Ruiz, Bryant Jennings, Mike Perez, Wladimir Klitschko, Alexander Povetkin, Carlos Takam, Tony Thompson, Kubrat Pulev and Czar Glazkov.
Fury said “He’s the challenger, he’s the chump and he’s 10 levels below me and I’m going to prove that by smashing his face right in. I’m flattening his big, ugly, fat face. He’s the ugliest man I’ve ever seen, he can’t talk, he’s useless, the only thing he’s got about him is he’s a bit tough and he comes forward and swings some shots.”
I really don’t know who is going to win the Chisora-Fury II fight, because both guys are so utterly flawed that it’s not even funny. When I saw Fury getting dropped by cruiserweight Steven Cunningham last year that kind of told me where Fury is at in terms of levels. Fury then struggled to beat Joey Abell in his last fight after walking into the ring a porky 274 pounds last February.
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