Fury: If I can’t KO Wladimir then I must be useless

By Boxing News - 09/04/2015 - Comments

fury5555By Scott Gilfoid: With eight knockouts in his last nine fights, Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) seems to now be fancying himself as a knockout artist of sorts. The 6’9” Brit, who is more of a slapper than a puncher, thinks that he’s going to KO IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) in their fight on October 24th at the ESPRIT arena, Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.

Fury is talking about if he doesn’t stop Wladimir, then it means he’s useless, and should retire. That would be a laugh if Fury gets knocked out and then retires out of grief.

I don’t see any retirement from Fury lasting more than 3-4 months, so that he can be back for his next fight right on schedule.

Fury has put together some knockouts in his last nine fights, but he’s done it against the weakest of opposition for the most part. We’re talking about names like Martin Rogan, Neven Pajkic, Nicolai Firtha, Vinny Maddalone, and Joey Abell. There’s no quality.

It’s all 3rd tier opposition for Fury. He did stop Dereck Chisora and Steve Cunningham, but I see those guys as 2nd tier heavyweights all the way. If I was the one ranking the heavyweights, those guys would never make my top 15. Heck, they wouldn’t make my top 50. I don’t recognize Chisora and Cunningham as being top 50 contenders, but that’s me. I have standards for my top 50.

“If I can’t knock him out then I must be useless. If I can’t beat a 40-year-old man, I need banning from boxing. If I can’t, then I won’t be boxing on because I won’t be able to achieve and get my goals,” Fury said to skysports.com. “It’s not going to be a points decision in Germany as we all know. You’re not going to beat a Super champion in his own country on points, so I need a knockout to get a victory. It’s not a problem for me.”

Well, if Fury is going to retire he can’t beat Klitschko, then he had better start working on his retirement speech to sharpen it up so that the fans can drink it up. Fury is not going to beat Wladimir on October 24th, believe me.

The only thing we don’t know is what manner will Fury get beaten by the 6’6” Klitschko. Will it be a knockout, or a one-sided 12 round decision? My guess is it will be by a brutal knockout with Fury splayed on the canvas after eating one of Klitschko’s big left hooks that will send him down on the canvas like an old ship going down beneath the ocean waters.

I think Fury shouldn’t be worrying his silly head about trying to get a knockout of Wladimir. Instead I think he should be focusing on how he can survive by running and holding all night long to keep from getting knocked out in front of what will likely be a large German crowd.

“He’s 40 years old. If I can’t knock him out then it doesn’t say a lot of me – a 27-year-old in the prime of his life,” Fury said. “He’s been knocked out three times. Three men have done and if a man can be knocked out three times before, what’s to stop him getting knocked out again?”

The guys that knocked Wladimir out in the past, Corrie Sanders, Ross Puritty and Lamont Brewster, all had punching power, something that Fury is short of. Fury can’t try and emulate those guys because he’s just a slapper. I’m not sure why Fury can’t generate any power with his huge 6’9” frame. Maybe he’s bending his wrists when he throws his punches.

It’s got to be something like that. He doesn’t seem to keep his wrists straight when he throws a shot. When Fury throws a shot, it’s like a slap, and when he does get a knockout, it’s because he’s got someone that has no defense and is just standing there taking slap after slap.



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