By Scott Gilfoid: The light hitting Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) is trying to work on his punching power during this training camp to develop some explosive power so that he can score a knockout of IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) in their fight on October 24th at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Fury, 27, figures that he’ll need to get a knockout in this fight in order for him to win because he has serious doubts whether he’ll be given a decision win over the 39-year-old Klitschko in Germany.
The Klitschko-Fury fight will be televised live on Sports Box Office along with the Kell Brook vs. Diego Chaves fight.
“It’s different to anything I’ve ever done before. We’re looking for explosive power. Snap. I need a knockout in Germany to win and that’s what I’ll be getting,” Fury said to skysports.com. “We’re working on explosive movements, power movements – lots of stuff we didn’t do before.”
I’m sure Fury will at least get a little something from his strength training he’s doing, but my guess is it won’t be nearly enough for him to do much against Klitschko. Fury is starting so far back in the power department that at best all he can probably hope for is to get to a low normal power level in terms of punching power. In other words, I don’t see Fury becoming a huge puncher in this training camp from all of his power exercises.
Fury’s punches are so limp right now that the only thing he can do is develop a small amount of power to where he can maybe redden Wladimir’s face if he hits him enough times, but that’s about it. Fury definitely won’t develop into a fighter with concussive knockout power like say Deontay Wilder.
For the most part, you have to be blessed with that kind of punching power. It’s same with hand speed. You either have it or you don’t. You can work on your speed all you want, but you’re never going to be blistering fast like Andre Dirrell unless you were born with that speed.
“I’ve got some massive lads in the gym. There’s nobody under 6’6″ in the gym for sparring,” Fury said. “They work me very hard and I’m doing 12 rounds every day. It’s one in, one out so I’m getting a fresh guy every time. Let’s face it, it’s very hard.”
It sounds like Fury is really getting worked over by the big lugs that he’s got in his training camp to spar with. I hope Fury doesn’t get beaten up too much in training camp. I’d hate to see him come out for the fight against Wladimir already half stunned and concussed from the punishment he’s absorbed during training camp.
Fury would wind up like the many fighters that left their best in training camp, and came into his fight running on empty. It’s no good to Fury if he’s stumbling around before the bell has even sounded to start the 1st round. If I was Fury’s trainer, I wouldn’t have doing any sparring at all. I’d want him to be fully there for the Klitschko fight, and not walking on his heels in the ring. Fury clearly doesn’t have the best chin in the division. You don’t need him getting beaten and battered by huge 6’6” heavyweights with a lot of power during training camp.
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