By Scott Gilfoid: It goes without saying that Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) and Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) were involved in one of the dullest heavyweight title fights in history last November in Dusseldorf, Germany.
I’m sure there may have been some duller fights in the history of world title fights, but I’d have to say that this ranks as one of the most boring fights I’ve ever seen. Unfortunately for boxing fans, a rematch will be taking place between Fury and Klitschko in the first half of 2016, and we can only pray that the fight has more action than their last fight.
British heavyweight David Haye believes that Fury will win the rematch against Wladimir because he felt that Fury easily won last November against Klitschko. I can’t say I agree that Fury easily won, but he definitely did win a narrow decision based off of him landing a few more punches per round than the nearly 40-year-old Wladimir.
The judges scored the fight 115-112, 116-111 and 115-112 Fury. Those are not lopsided scores by any means.
“Will he [Fury] win the rematch with Wladimir Klitschko? I assume so, because he won the first fight easily in my opinion so he should be able to do it again,” Haye said to the dailymail.co.uk.
I think Haye needs to sit down and guzzle a pot of good black coffee and then watch the replay of the Fury vs. Klitschko fight so that he can realize that Fury barely won the fight, and looked gawd awful in the process. I thought Fury fought like an old man in the ring with the pawing punches that he was throwing. Yeah, Wladimir fought like an old man too, but he at least has an excuse because he’s pushing 40-year-years old.
The 6’7” Fury should have been able to throw some actual power punches instead of the pawing shots he was throwing. All night long, Fury pushed out weak jabs in a kind of a warding off manner. It was like watching an unskilled school boy, who had no clue about fighting, trying to keep a bully off of him to protect his hide on the playgrounds.
Fury looked terrible in my view. Actually, he looked worse than terrible, and the only reason he won the fight is because Wladimir was so utterly confused and unsure of himself that he failed to throw hardly any punches in the fight. Wladimir had the look of someone who was spinning his gears mentally by constantly second guessing himself about whether he should commit to a punch or not. He looked like a quarterback who couldn’t pull the trigger on his throws down field.
When you have someone like that as the QB, you need to bench them pronto. What Wladimir needed was someone to get in his ear in the corner and shout at full volume to wake up and go and attack Fury. Wladimir’s late trainer Emanuel Steward would have done just that, and basically pressured him into throwing shots. But Wladimir’s trainer Johnathon Banks couldn’t get through to him in the corner.
Banks was talking sense to Wladimir, but he looked like he was being ignored. I’m not sure if Wladimir thought he knew it all or if he was in a state of shock and beyond the point of listening and following anyone’s directions at that point. All I know is if Wladimir wants to win the rematch, he needs to start following instructions in the corner instead of looking off in the distance and not appearing to concentrate on what is being told to him.
If Wladimir throws even 10 more punches per round compared to the first fight, he wins with ease in the rematch. I see Wladimir winning every round if all he does is throw 10 measly extra punches per round. I’m not talking 10 half-hearted punches. I’m talking 10 power punches where Wladimir is totally committed to them and putting everything he has into the shots. It doesn’t matter if he misses with 7 out of the 10 shots. The 3 big punches that land will be easily enough to win the rounds, because it’s not as if Fury will be landing anything big. Fury can’t punch at all, so 3 big power shots landed by Wladmir will be enough to win the rounds. Ideally, Wladimir throws an extra 20 to 50 punches per round compared to the last fight, but I’m not going to get greedy and put WLadimir on the same platform as a talent like Deontay Wilder. If you ask Deontay to throw more punches in a fight, you’ll likely see an extra 50 thrown per round., but you can’t hold Wladimir to the same standard as a magnificent young lion like Deontay.
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