By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) doesn’t see IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) as having the needed experience to do a number on him in their fight on October 24th at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Fury thinks that Klitschko’s best win of his career was against Britain’s David Haye in 2011. Fury doesn’t think much of that win because he doesn’t seem to rate Haye after he failed to make it out of two training camps for their previously scheduled fights in 2013.
I don’t think too much of Haye not being able to make it through training camp for his fights against Fury, but I do believe that if Haye had made it to the fight, he would have knocked Fury out. It’s quite fortunate that Fury didn’t face Haye because I think he’d have a loss on his record now and he wouldn’t be in the position to fight Klitschko. Fury would still likely be still trying to rebuild his career and not be ready yet to fight for a title.
“Klitschko’s best win was against a man called David Haye,” Fury said to skysports.com. “But we do know he’s a bottle job and he’s a Mr Toe Breaker,” Fury sad about Haye. “And if that’s the best win of his career so far then he’s in trouble, because that man (Haye) wouldn’t even face me twice.”
For the first time in his career, Fury, 27, is working on trying to develop his punching power with the help of explosive exercises like weight lifting. He’s doing swimming as well to try and get some power. In looking at Fury do mitt work with his trainer Peter Fury, I don’t see any evidence of Fury hitting with extra power. When you look at a talent like Deontay Wilder hit the mitts, it’s very loud and powerful sounding.
I fear for Wilder’s trainer Jay Deas when Wilder hits the mitts because if he misses with one of his big shots, he could clip Deas and that wouldn’t be good for him to take one of those monstrous shots. But when Fury hits the mitts, it’s a very soft sound like he’s not able to generate much punching power.
I know there’s still 5 ½ weeks to go in the training camp, so maybe he’ll develop some power at some point. I just don’t see it happening thus far. The power, his body, and his limp jab is the same as far as I can tell. What I have noticed is Fury’s face is all bruised up.
I guess that’s from all the sparring he’s doing with 6’6” sparring partners to get ready for the fight. Fury looks like he’s getting worked over in training camp judging by his face. It might be in Fury’s best interest to get a better face shield to keep from having the punches get through to his face, because he’s pretty well bruised up. You’d hate to see Fury get cut in training camp and wind up having to postpone the fight in the same way that Haye had to postpone his fight with Fury on one occasion.
“So if that’s his greatest win – over a man of 6ft 3in who’s not really that good anyway, what’s he going to be like when he’s got a 6ft 9in Gypsy King in front of him?” Fury said about Klitschko.
I don’t see Wladimir having too many problems getting Fury out of there on October 24th. Fury is just a tall target for Wladimir, and I think he’s going to have no problems taking him out.
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