Hughie Fury is willing to face any fighter in Britain, says Peter F

By Boxing News - 09/22/2015 - Comments

fury433By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury’s trainer Peter Fury says that his fighter is willing to take on any of the top British heavyweights in the division right now. Peter acknowledges that the 21-year-old Hughie may not be ready to take them all on at this time, but he’s still willing to do it.

Peter thinks that the 6’6” Hughie will be ready to be what he describes as a force in the heavyweight division in two or three years. But In the meantime, he wants to take the slow approach to developing him.

Hughie will be fighting Nicolai Firtha (21-11-1, 8 KOs) on the undercard of the Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury fight card next month on 10/24 at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. Peter wants to see how Hughie deals with Firtha, as he’s already been in with Deontay Wilder, Alexander Povetkin, Johnathon Banks and Tyson Fury in the past.

“He’ll [Hughie] take any of those fights,” Peter Fury said to PT Boxing about Hughie being willing to fight Chisora. “There’s nobody in Britain he’ll [Hughie] no to. Whether he’s ready or not is another question. He’ll go on doing what he’s doing. He’s already developing and looking better already. We’ll have to wait and see. I’m a realist. He’s a gold medalist in the juniors. He got the gold medal. It must mean something. He’s 16-0, and fighting good people now while a lot of prospects are not. So he’s having good learning fights. I’m seeing improvement all the times. He’s nowhere near the finished article,” Peter said.

I don’t think it would be a good idea to match Hughie against the likes of Dereck Chisora, Sam Sexon, Richard Towers, Gary Cornish, Dillian Whyte, or Anthony Joshua. I’m not just talking now. I’m talking three years from now. I think all those fighters would beat Hughie proper. I don’t see anything in the way of punching power from Hughie that could help him keep those fighters off of him.

What Hughie needs is to get a good trainer that can work on developing some muscles in his underdeveloped upper body so that he can get some power in his punches. Hughie needs to bulk up another 20 pounds or so. I think it might help him so that he doesn’t have to run around the ring 24/7 each time he fights.

A fighter can only fight like that for so long before they start to age and become stationary. Hughie is getting away with it now, but I can’t imagine him still being able to run around the ring when he’s in his late 20s. Hughie will need to be able to stand and fight. Unfortunately, he won’t be able to do that if he still has his noodle arms and undeveloped chest and shoulders.

I think it’s pretty clear that Hughie isn’t the finished article when you look at him. He seems to be stuck at the same level that he had when he first turned pro in 2013. I don’t see much of any progress in Hughie’s game since he turned pro. His fighting style is exactly the same as it was from the start of his career, and he’s still not developed any punching power to speak of.

Hughie fights in a hit and move style, and it looks like a poor man’s version of Floyd Mayweather Jr. You can see at first glance why Hughie uses so much movement and refuses to stand in front of his opponents for more than a second or two.

Hughie just doesn’t have the punching power to beat down even the weak opponents that are being fed to him. As such, he moves constantly to try and avoid the heavier shots from his opponents. I don’t know what the end game is for Hughie and Peter. How does Hughie beat the top fighters in the heavyweight division if he can’t stop moving for anything length of time? That style is not going to win fights against the top heavyweights in the division.

I don’t know if Hughie is going to be able to beat Firtha. If he does, I suspect it’s going to be a less than eye pleasing performance from young Hughie. He’ll likely be forced to move three minutes of every round once he tastes Firtha’s power for the first time in the fight.



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