Fury: Wladimir is mentally fragile

By Boxing News - 10/31/2015 - Comments

fury5666By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) says he plans on pulling some more tricks on IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) in the coming weeks before their clash on November 28th in order to get into his mind further and cause him to become further unglued mentally.

Fury, 27, thinks that his recent Batman scene in London caused Wladimir to lose it mentally and postpone the fight in order to get a reset on the situation. Fury thinks that Wladimir is such a control freak that he caused him to unravel mentally and go into a bit of a meltdown when he dressed up as Batman at the London press conference.

Fury further says that he believes that Wladimir and Shannon Briggs rehearse their confrontations ahead of time by talking to each other on the phone before they meet up for confrontations while out in the public. But in the same breath, Fury admits that he planned out his Batman theatrics. In other words, Fury comes off as a hypocrite.

“Klitschko is a control freak. He has to be the one in control,” Fury said to Michelle Phelps. “Me dressed up as Batman and doing the crazy stuff. He couldn’t control the situation. It wasn’t about Klitschko. That’s how I got to him. I frustrated him so bad with words that he couldn’t get anything in. He must have felt when he got back to the plane that he needed to get things right again. I have mental issues, especially when it comes to him. He’s in a whole lot of mental troubles when he fights me,” Fury said.

I think Fury is really reading into a lot of this when he says he thinks that he’s got Wladimir mentally crumbling with his mind games. If you look at Wladimir during all of this, he seems to be both amused and annoyed because he wants to be a professional and keep things in aimed at adults.

Fury’s clowning around takes thing to an unprofessional level, so of course Wladimir is going to be annoyed with him. But for Fury to then assume that he’s got Wladimir falling apart mentally is a huge overreach on his part. Wladimir isn’t coming apart at the seams. He’s just being patient in the same way that an adult would be patient with an unruly child that is acting out and having a temper tantrum.

When Fury was doing his Batman thing, Wladimir just looked like an adult waiting for a child to finish his tantrum before he could return things to the proper adult level so that he could get the press conference to move forward.

I just hope for Fury’s sake that he tries to bring some kind of game plan for the actual fight, because if he’s assuming that he’ll be throwing Wladimir off to the point where he won’t be able to fight on November 28th, then I think he’s going to be sadly disappointed. Fury has done the theatrics bit, but he’s going to need to be able to fight when he gets in the ring, because Wladimir isn’t going to turn to jelly the instant they get inside the ring.

I think it’s going to be the opposite. Wladimir is going to be all over Fury, nailing him with shots, and dropping him left and right with left hooks and right hands. Before all of that takes place though, I see Wladimir tenderizing Fury’s face with jabs.

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By the time that Wladimir starts nailing Fury with his big power punches, he’ll have already reddened his face badly with his hard jabs. I wouldn’t be surprised if Fury is punch drunk from the jabs by the time that Wladimir starts nailing him with his heavy artillery.

“Shannon Briggs is a fake. He’s a snide. He and klitschko are like this, phoning each other up [Fury holds up two fingers pressed together at this point in the interview]. ‘How are you? I’m coming down.’ So he turns up and does his thing, and it’s all rehearsed,” Fury said. “With me, it’s the total opposite. I’m just being myself and he’s very uncomfortable around me. He’s twitching and he doesn’t know if he’s going to get a backhand in the mouth. He doesn’t know what’s going on. It’s very unpredictable, and control freaks hate that kind of stuff. It’s not a good scene for them to be around me. No, I had it planned, [Fury says about him appearing at the London press conference dressed as Batman]. It was a planned out scene. Even the fight scene was planned out with the Joker. Everything was perfect. Klitschko is a control freak. Everything has to be precise. I think he’s very mentally fragile, and he can be overcome with action. There’s a final press conference and a weigh-in. There’s a lot more head to head stuff before we fight. So there’s more chances for me to mentally break him down more than he already is,” Fury said.

Fury is really patting himself on the back for the games that he played at the London press conference. That’s pretty sad. Instead of forgetting this garbage, which obviously was meant to attract interest from the casual boxing fans, Fury is now thinking that he’s got the upper hand on Klitschko. That’s pretty crazy. I wouldn’t be thinking the same thing if I were Fury. What Fury did at the London press conference has nothing to do with the actual sport of boxing.

Fury’s antics were little more than a sideshow for a circus. It didn’t throw Wladimir off mentally and cause him to lose it enough for him to beat him. That’s why Fury would be better off coming up with a variety of real game plans that he can use in the Klitschko fight on November 28th when he gets inside the ring with the 6’7” Ukrainian at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Goodness knows, Fury is going to need every trick in the book in order for him to have a chance of winning this fight. If I were Fury, I’d have a plan A, B, C, D, E and F for the Klitschko fight, and I wouldn’t hesitate to shift through the plans rapidly depending on whether they’re working or not. Some fighters say they have multiple plans for their fights, but then they wait too long before switching to their plan-B.

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In Fury’s case, he’s going to need to be able to adapt rapidly otherwise Klitschko is likely going to knock him cold in two or three rounds. I rate Fury as being less talented than Kubrat Pulev and with a weaker chin than him. Wladimir destroyed Pulev in five rounds last November.

It’ll have been exactly a year since Wladimir thrashed Pulev when he faces Fury in November, and I see the same thing happening to Fury that happened with Pulev, only I believe the fight will end much faster. At least with Pulev, he had an excellent jab that he landed occasionally on Wladimir’s chin to keep him off at times. Fury doesn’t even have that. His jab is weak, his power punches are weak, and his chin is weak. This fight has massacre written all over it.



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