(Photo credit: Ed Diller/DiBella Entertainment) By Scott Gilfoid: WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (36-0, 35 KOs) says he can’t wait to get Britain’s Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) inside the ring in 2016, because he wants to hurt Fury really bad and give him a beating. Unlike his opponent from last night, Artur Szpilka (20-2, 15 KOs), Deontay says he will not show any remorse after he bludgeons Fury into submission in their unification fight in the near future. Wilder want to take care of Fury and knock him out.
Fury attended last night at Wilder’s title defense against Szpilka at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. After the fight, Fury climbed into the ring and got in Wilder’s face, calling him out and saying he is a bum.
It seems Fury hit Wilder’s last nerve because the American talent now wants to give Fury a thrashing that he won’t soon forget. The knockout that Wilder gave to Szpilka last night will be nothing compared to the job that Wilder wants to do on Fury when/if he gets him inside the ring.
“I’ve been waiting on him for a long time and they know where to find me,” Wilder said to skysports.com about Fury. “When the time comes – and the time will come – he’d better be ready because I will be looking to seek, kill and destroy him – and I do mean real bad. Hurting him, real, real, real, real bad. For Szpilka my heart goes out to him and his family but when I step in the ring with Tyson there will be no mercy, no pity, no sorrow and when I do lay him down on the canvas and look over him I will tell him… I just can’t wait,” said Wilder.
We still don’t know if Wilder and Fury will be fighting each other anytime soon. It will depend largely on what takes place in their next title defenses in 2016. Wilder will be defending against Alexander Povetkin in the next four to five months, whereas Fury will be fighting Wladimir Klitschko in a rematch in the next six months or so. On paper, those could prove to be very difficult fights for Fury and Wilder.
It goes without saying that Fury will have it a lot tougher in his rematch with the 6’6” Wladimir than Deontay will have in facing the shorter, older 6’2” Povetkin. Deontay will have the speed, power, size and youth advantage over the 36-year-old Povetkin, and that will likely be more than enough for Deontay to do the job on the aging Russian.
In some ways, I see Povetkin being an easier opponent for Wilder than Szpilka was last night, because Povetkin cannot move around the ring like Szpilka. He also does not have much ability to use upper body movement. Lastly, Povetkin does not fight out of the southpaw stance, and likely wouldn’t be capable of switching stances to try to befuddle Deontay.
“I’ve got my mandatory to handle and once he’s finished Klitschko, let’s make the fight. Why not?” Deontay said. “I would like it towards [the end of] this year. I like to continue fighting. I don’t like to sit there and wait, so don’t make me wait. I’m ready for that.”
Everything will need to play out perfectly for Fury and Deontay to wind up facing each other at the end of 2016. It’s not going to be easy. I mean, Fury barely beat Wladimir last November, and that was with Wladimir not throwing any punches at all, period.
All Wladimir has to do in the rematch is throw 25 to 50 extra punches per round, and he wins easy, especially with the rematch likely taking place in Germany. Fury won once over there last November, but I sure as heck do not see him winning twice. Wladimir will definitely be throwing more punches in the rematch, and that is going to put a huge amount of pressure on the light hitting Fury to let his hands go if he wants to win the fight. The thing is if Fury does throw a lot of shots, he’s going to leave himself open to being countered by Wladimir and knocked out.
“With Fury, I’m going to have no remorse,” Wilder said at the post-fight press conference. “I’m not going to have no sympathy for him. I’m going to want to really, really hurt him. With Fury, I don’t take this guy seriously at all. Let’s face it; we all know Fury likes to entertain. He likes to promote, which is a good thing. I just wasn’t in the mood tonight. You’ve got a man on the ground that is hurt. We don’t know; He may be good right now, but we don’t know what’s going to happen to him tomorrow. I just wasn’t in the mood. I knew he was going to be to be at the fight. Fury knows we’ve been trying to fight him for a while. His team knows that. He’s just promoting. We’ve been doing that for four years. I’ve been over to the UK and got in the ring. I feel like it’s time to shut up and put up. What he’s doing; I know he’s trying to promote the fight. I think it will be the biggest heavyweight fight in a long time. I would go to the UK for that one, that’s for sure. When it happens, I think it’ll be the biggest. We’ve been promoting this thing for four years, man. I can say a lot of things about Fury, but I’m not going to spoil it. I’m waiting for the big moment. This is going to be a fight that is just as big as the hype. I can’t wait. In 2016, I’m not playing around with nobody. It’s one thing to talk but it’s another thing when you gt up there in that ring,” said Wilder.
That’s scary with the way that Wilder is talking about wanting to hurt Fury really badly in the ring. I believe Wilder. I think he does want to give Fury a really bad beating so that he can teach him a lesson about opening his trap 24/7. It’ obviously going to be a painful lesson for Fury to learn.
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