Tyson Fury interested in another stay busy fight

By Boxing News - 03/05/2015 - Comments

fury56By Scott Gilfoid: After beating a hapless Christian Hammer last month by an 8th round stoppage victory in a stay busy fight, #1 WBO heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) is looking to get another tune-up bout to keep him busy while he waits for an eventual world title shot against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko either this year or next year.

Fury wants to stay as sharp as possible for him to have a better chance of pulling off a huge, huge upset against the faster, stronger, more experienced and more talented Wladimir.

“I’ll take another fight if one is there. I am easy,” Fury said via ESPN.co.uk. “If I want to keep busy, I’ll keep busy but it really is up to my trainer Peter Fury to decide what’s next.”

I hate to say it, but it probably doesn’t matter how many stay busy fights Fury slips in before the fight with Wladimir. He’s still going to be out of his class when he gets inside the ring with the 6’6” Wladimir. Heck, Fury can take stay busy fights all the way up to the day of the fight, and he’s still likely to be hopelessly lost.

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I see Fury’s problem as a situation where he basically has targeted the wrong heavyweight champion for him to go after to try and win a world title. Instead of going after WBA champion Ruslan Chagaev, who Fury would at least have a chance of beating, he’s facing Wladimir, who is considered the #1 or #2 heavyweight in the division depending on who you ask.

Wladimir has too much speed and too much power for a slapper like Fury to have a chance of beating him. Besides that, Wladimir has a far more superior jab of the two, and he can stay on the outside if he wants to all fight long against Fury and jab him to smithereens.

Fury’s best chance of capturing a world title, besides going after Chagaev, is to wait Wladimir out until he retires from boxing. Once Wladimir is out of the way, Fury can then slide on in and try and pick up one of Wladimir’s titles.

Fury obviously won’t be able to snatch all of them at once, because the IBF, WBA and WBO sanctioning bodies will likely have three separate fights to determine who their champion will be. They’re not going to let the titles stay combined so that Fury can snatch them all up with a single scoop in beating someone picked out by them.

Fury, 26, needs to face guys that are at least somewhat similar to Wladimir if he’s going to be taking tune-up fights left and right. If Fury is going to be fighting little 6’2” fighters like Hammer 24/7, then I don’t see how these fights are going to help Fury any. He needs an opponent that is at least somewhat close to the same height as Wladimir.

Someone like Alexander Ustinov or Kubrat Pulev would be ideal opponents for Fury to fight. However, Fury already had a chance to fight Ustinov last year, but Fury pulled out of the fight rather than face the big 6’7” Ustinov. There are some boxing fans who feel that Fury got cold feet after he saw how good of a shape Ustinov was in.



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