By Scott Gilfoid: Peter Fury, the trainer for unbeaten Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs), says he’s going to be training like never before to get ready for his important title fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) on October 24th in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Peter says Tyson has already lost 35 pounds of fat off of his 6’9” frame, and he feels he should be in great shape by the time that the fight takes place in three months from now. The fact that Fury is already taking off weight before training camp has even started suggests that he’s gotten out of shape since his last fight against Christian Hammer several months ago in April.
It’s got to be seen as a good thing that Fury is taking the weight off now rather than waiting until training camp to lose the weight. The last thing Fury needs is to use his eight week training camp as a glorified fat farm to burn off the blubber that has settled around his midsection.
“You’re going to see a whole new Tyson, different to how he’s ever performed to before,” Peter Fury said to Skysports.com. “He’s got to raise his levels 10-fold. That’s what he’ll need to do to beat Klitschko. It’s definitely Wladimir’s toughest test to date. Regardless of what people say, it is.”
I don’t agree with Peter about this being Wladimir’s toughest test to date during his career. I see Wladimir’s past fights against Corrie Sanders, Ross Puritty, Lamon Brewster, Alexander Povetkin and his first fight against Samuel Peter as by far Wladimir’s toughest fights. Above all, the southpaw Sanders was Wladimir’s toughest foe of his career back in 2002.
I believe that if you dropped Fury into the ring with Sanders on that night that Wladimir fought him, Fury would have been obliterated by Sanders. It wouldn’t have been close in my view. Sanders was very difficult to beat, and unless you had a strong chin like Vitali Klitschko, you weren’t going to last against him. A guy with a shaky chin like Fury would be in big, big trouble if he got inside the ring with Sanders.
I rate Fury as being a step up from Mariusz Wach and Francesco Pianeta for Wladimir, but definitely well below Sanders, Puritty, Brewster, Povetkin and a prime Samuel Peter.
“It’s his third week in camp. Everything’s going well and he’s dropped over 35lbs in body weight already,” Peter Fury said. “He’s going to be totally lean and he’ll be in the best shape of his whole career.”
I have some concerns about Fury possibly coming into the Klitschko fight over-trained from doing too much during training camp. I’ve seen Fury take too much weight off in the past, and he didn’t look good in those fights. When he fought Vinny Maddalone, Fury looked like he took off too much weight. I mean, Fury still won the fight given that he was facing a guy well below him in terms of talent, but he didn’t look strong in that fight.
Fury would be better off coming into the fight with Klitschko around 260 to 265 if he wants to have a chance of winning. If Fury goes overboard during training camp and melts down too much, I see him getting knocked out quickly. In fact, I see Fury getting knocked out anyway no matter what he does, but I believe he at least stands a chance of winning if he doesn’t overdo it in training camp.
“He’ll be in the best shape physically and mentally. It’s a fight he knows he can win,” Peter said.
See what I mean about Fury likely to go overboard with the training? Just look at what Peter is saying about Fury coming into the fight in the best shape of his life. You can tell that he’s going to try and exercise harder in this training camp than he ever has before. It rarely helps a fighter if he trains harder than usual for a fight because it leaves them weight drained or played out by the time they get to the actual fight.
I think that’s going to be the case with Fury. His youth and ambition will get the better of him. What Fury really needs is a good trainer like Freddie Roach, Robert Garcia or Virgil Hunter to get him ready for this fight. I think Fury would do well to get one of those guys to train him so that he doesn’t overdo it and blow his chance of winning Wladimir’s three heavyweight straps.
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