Fury forced to wait for injured Klitschko

By Boxing News - 09/25/2015 - Comments

furyBy Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) finds himself now stuck in the waiting game after IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) revealed the news that he suffered a calf injury during his training camp in Going, Austria. The Klitschko-Fury fight has now been postponed and there’s no telling how long it’s going to take for Wladimir’s left calf injury to heal enough for him to resume training.

Of course, boxing fans are going to say that Fury harassed Wladimir into suffering the injury with the way he was intimidating the 39-year-old fighter at their London press conference on Wednesday.

Fury really worked Wladimir over by trash talking him throughout the press conference. It was only afterwards that one got the sense that Wladimir was upset about many of the things that Fury had said about him. It’s quite possible that Wladimir went back to his training camp in Austria and promptly overdid it with his training, which led to him suffering the injury to his left calf.

In hindsight, Fury should have probably kept his yap shut and gone easy on the aging Klitschko. Fury may have led Klitschko to push his aging body more than it could handle during training camp. When you have an old car with 300,000 miles on it, you’ve got to go slow with it or else something will blow.

I think the lip service that Fury was giving Klitschko may have directly led to the Ukrainian going back to training camp and working harder than his aging body could handle. As such, you can make an argument that Fury may have scared Wladimir into the injury. It’s just so sad.

Fury should have been saying nice supportive stuff to Klitschko, or better yet, he should have just kept his pie hole shut altogether so that Wladimir wouldn’t get stressed out. This is the second older heavyweight that Fury has worried enough for them to get injured. David Haye suffered injury after injury while trying to get ready for the Fury fight a couple of years ago.

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Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, the physician who is treating Klitschko, is saying that Wladimir suffered a tear of tendon in his left calf. A torn tendon is not a good thing to half no matter where the injury occurs. With it being in the aging Wladimir’s calf, it could take literally ages for it to heal properly.

I hope Fury has something to keep him busy while he waits for Wladimir’s injury to heal. Fury can stay busy by reading Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace,’ which has 1,440 pages. That should keep the 6’9” Fury busy waiting for Wladimir to eventually heal enough to get back inside the ring.

Klitschko says he wants to heal as fast as possible, but his calf injury isn’t likely going to heal fast at all. Fury may end up sitting around forever waiting for the soon to be 40-year-old Wladimir to get healthy. If Fury keeps training during that time, which is quite possible, he could work himself to the bone by overtraining or suffering an injury of his own. Fury is going to need to ease off of his training camp if he doesn’t want to come into the fight exhausted and drained from a prolonged training camp.

“The clinical and MRI-examination showed a partial musculotendinous tear of the left calf. The boxing fight planned for October 24 (World Championship in the heavyweight division) should be postponed for an indefinite period of time. Due to this injury we strictly recommend ceasing athletic activity in the next weeks,” said Dr. Müller-Wohlfahrt.

That sounds really bad. When you hear that a fighter as old as Klitschko has suffered a tear of his tendon in his left calf, it’s just bad, bad news. Straining a calf is one thing, but suffering a tear of his calf is a whole different matter. Wladimir could be sitting idle for a long time waiting for the injury to heal.

Fury is probably angry as heck about the injury, and he might feel like he’s got some kind of hex on him with the way that all the old timers he’s trying to fight keep getting injured. Well, he only has himself to blame. If Fury wants to avoid having to deal with postponements, then he needs to focus on fighting the younger bucks in the heavyweight division instead of the old timers like Haye and Klitschko.



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