By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) is still yapping about retiring if he loses to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) in their fight next month on October 24th at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. Fury, 27, feels that there’s no reason to continue fighting if he can’t even beat the 39-year-old Klitschko, who clearly isn’t going to be around too much longer in the sport at his age.
I don’t buy Fury’s retirement stuff for one second, because he even admits it that he’ll continue to fight after he loses to Klitschko if he’s offered a whole bunch of money by someone to fight.
It’s pretty obvious that someone will come out of the woodwork to give Fury an offer for a fight if for no other reason to have him market the fight with his trash talking. I think Fury could eventually become a valuable journeyman level guy if he starts losing left and right to the likes of Klitschko, Deontay Wilder, Alexander Povetkin, David Haye and Anthony Joshua. I think that might be his eventual destiny at some point once he starts losing left and right.
“If I can’t beat him [Klitschko], then I’m going nowhere,” Fury said to IFL TV. “I don’t want to be another [expletive] idiot trying to win a world title and losing, losing and losing. If I can’t beat this man then what’s the point of me continuing in boxing? I’m not fighting a 25-year-old spring chicken, am I? I’m fighting a man who is 40-years-old and at the end of his career. If I can’t beat him then I can’t beat him. I won’t be boxing anymore; not unless I get offered a lot of money to fight somebody else. Then I will be doing it,” Fury said.
If Fury is serious about retiring and staying retired, then he’ll at least have the payday that he received for the Klitschko fight. Fury, 6’9”, is probably going to get a nice little payday for this fight. It’s too bad that his chances of winning are so slim. Without any punching power, I think it’s going to go really badly for Fury. He’s going to be getting nailed with huge shots from Wladimir, and we’ve already seen in the past what happens with Fury when he gets hit hard. He gets staggered and dropped to the canvas.
Klitschko will be his first opponent with the size to actually plant big shots on his chin over and over again. That’s not going to be good for Fury because he has nothing to answer Klitschko back with in terms of power. I mean, Fury is just a slapper, and those kind of fighters don’t do well against a guy like Klitschko.
At nearly 40, Wladimir is ready to be beaten and sent into retirement by someone, but I just don’t think Fury is the one to do the job on him. It’s going to take someone with some actual talent to do the job and send him on his way, someone like Deontay Wilder. Klitschko and Wilder will likely be facing each other next once he gets Fury out of the way in short order next month.
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