By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) didn’t like the trash talking that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) recently did at his post-fight press conference last Saturday night after his narrow win over Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf, Germany.
To pay Fury back, Wilder says he’s going to whip him so bad that even his mother won’t be able to recognize him and his wife will leave him. Deontay says that Fury won’t be able to have a substitute in the ring with him on the night that he fights him. He’ll have to be in there with Wilder all by himself, and that means he’s going to likely take a bad beating.
Right now, it’s a little premature to talk of a Wilder-Fury fight because Fury still has a rematch against Wladimir that he has to get through in early 2016, and Wilder has two fights that he needs to get out of the way. Wilder will be fighting on January 16th in a voluntary defense, possibly against #8 WBC Artur Szpilka.
After that, Wilder will have a tougher contest on his hands against his #1 WBC mandatory challenger Alexander Povetkin. If Wilder wins both of those fights, and if Fury defeats Wladimir again, then we can talk about a big money unification fight between Wilder and Fury in 2016 or 2017
“I’m going to make it so bad for him. I’m going to destroy him so that even his mother doesn’t recognize his face,” Wilder said to TMZ.com. I can’t wait. When it comes to the night of the fight, when it’s me and him in that ring, where there’s no substitution, and there’s no Plan-B, then that’s when all matters. I can’t wait. I go in there and punish him. I consider myself like mafia style. I don’t really exchange words much. I just let my actions speak for words. Of course that was horrible [Fury]s singing]. When we fight, that’s definitely going to be a song that he’s going to sing to his wife, because she’s going to want to leave him after I mess his face,” Wilder said.
I think it’s very unlikely that Fury will get past Wladimir a second time, because we’re going to see a much different Wladimir the second time around. Wladimir has the offensive skills and punching power to improve dramatically from the way he fought last time. With Fury, he was pretty much maxed out in what he was doing. He’s a slapper with zero hand speed.
There’s not much he can do to change all that. If Fury tries to improve his game to what he was doing before, he’s just going to wind up walking into one of Wladimir’s big punches and will wind up getting knocked out. Fury will need to fight defensively the entire 12 rounds by running around the ring, leaning backwards, and only throwing arm punches. Fury won’t be able to stand stationary and commit to punches the way normal fighters do because the threat of him getting nailed with something bit would be too high.
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