By Scott Gilfoid: Many fans aren’t giving the 6’9” British heavyweight Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) too much of a chance of pulling off an upset next month in his title challenge against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs on October 24th. Fury just doesn’t have the punching power, the chin, the conditioning for the experience to get the job done in the minds of the fans.
Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn, who has no dog in this hunt, thinks that Fury can win the fight if he’s technically sound on October 24th in their fight at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.
By saying that he thinks that Fury has to be 100% technically sound, Hearn seems to be suggesting that Fury can’t be the sloppy fighter that he sometimes is in his fights. We’ve all seen Fury bum rush his opponents in the past using very little in the way of technique.
The only reason why Fury has been able to get away with fighting the way he does is because his opposition has been awful since he turned pro. I mean, Fury’s opposition isn’t as bad as Anthony Joshua’s has been in my view, but they haven’t been that much better. With the fodder that Fury has padded his resume with, he’s picked up a lot of bad habits that could be exposed by Klitschko.
“I think he [Fury] can do it,” Hearn said to IFL TV about Fury being capable of defeating Klitschko. “When you talk to him, he really believes it. I hope he does it. He’s got a real tough fight. He’s going to need his toughness, but he’s going to need to be technically sound. He’s got to have a good game plan. He’s got to be good enough to do it,” Hearn said.
I don’t know if Fury even actually believes that he can win. I know he talks a good game to give the appearance that he’s confident of winning against Wladimir, but I get the feeling that it’s false confidence and not the real thing. I wouldn’t be surprised if Fury is very worried and filled self-doubt about the Klitschko fight.
What could be making things worse for Fury is all the huge 6’6” sparring partners that he’s brought into camp to get him ready for the fight against the 6’6” Klitschko. I can imagine that Fury is getting worked over by some of these big guys, and that obviously is doing a number on his confidence going into this fight.
If Fury is having problems against the sparring partners, you can only imagine what will happen when he gets inside the ring with the real thing on October 24th and has to deal with Wladimir’s size and punching power.
Fury made a big mistake in not fighting bigger and more talented heavyweights to get him ready for this fight. Fury should have at least fought the likes of Kubrat Pulev, Johann Duhaupas, Erkan Teper and Alexander Ustinov in his last four fights to prepare him for what he’s going to be dealing with in the ring against Wladimir. Yeah, Fury probably would have been beaten by two or three of those guys, but if he can’t beat those guys then he doesn’t deserve to be in the ring with Klitschko.
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