By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) wants to fight the winner of next month’s April 9 bout between IBF heavyweight champion Charles Martin and Anthony Joshua. But more specifically, Fury BADLY wants to fight Joshua in what he considers as a “super fight.”
Fury doesn’t seem to realize that there the odds of him fighting Joshua are pretty slim right now. Fury would need to defeat Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) in their rematch on June 4 in Austria, and Joshua would need to defeat Martin. For Fury to get his way to fight Joshua, it’ll need to be the perfect storm for that to happen, and I don’t see it happening.
First off, I think Fury is going to get whipped by Wladimir and put back in his place in the contender ranks. Secondly, I see Joshua getting blasted out by Martin after he makes the mistake of trying to bum rush him next month. Martin isn’t going to fall victim to an amateurish tactic like that, and he’ll great Joshua with a straight left that will put him out on his feet. Martin will then finish off Joshua and retain his IBF title.
“My next fights, 1, Wlad, 2, winner of Joshua/Martin, 3, winner of wilder/Povetkin,” said Fury on his Twitter.
Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn must have gotten a little lathered up after seeing Fury’s Tweet, because he responded back with this Tweet of his own: “It’s a monster fight – of course!”
Fury then replied back with: “That’s the biggest British fight ever right there, but he must pass Martin first.”
I think Hearn is going to be crying crocodile tears if Joshua gets beaten by Martin next month. Hearn has all these big plans for Joshua that he would like to put into effect, but all those plans will go down the drain if Martin beats Joshua on 4/9.
Hearn would then need to hit the reset button on Joshua’s career, and we’d likely see another 14 or 15 stiffs put in there with the 2012 Olympic gold medalist so that he can pad his record some more. It’ll be little more than a waste of time, but that’s how it goes. I mean, having Joshua more stiffs could be a good thing in theory if he were to use them to learn from.
If Joshua used his fodder opponents to learn to box, to jab, to stay on the outside, then it would be useful. But that’s not how Joshua has been doing it since he turned pro. Instead of using his weak opponents to try different things, and develop his skills, Joshua has just run out bombed them out of there without even thinking. That is the worst thing you can do when starting your career. Joshua should have used these fights to improve instead of just blasting them out to smithereens.
It’s interesting that Fury places Deontay at No.3 on his list. In other words, Fury would rather face Martin than Deontay. Now why would Fury rather fight Martin than a talent like Deontay. I have one guess. It’s because Deontay is so dangerous that Fury isn’t willing to take that risk. Fury looked incredibly vulnerable to right hands in his last fight against Klitschko last November.
The problem that Wladimir had is he so timid about throwing his right hand that he didn’t get a chance to land more than a handful of them. However, when Wladimir did throw his right hands, he was landing effectively. Now imagine if that were Deontay in the ring with Fury instead of Wladimir. Once Deontay starts bouncing big right hand bombs of Fury’s chin, I couldn’t see him lasing more than a round or two at best. Deontay hits too hard, and it would nearly impossible for Fury to stay upright.
Joshua has been vocal about wanting to fight Fury. He feels he can take Fury, and he’d like to shut him up. Joshua is in the position where he could have three out of the four heavyweight titles by the end 2016 if he beats Martin and Fury to win the IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight straps. Joshua is in an ideal situation, because Fury has him as the No.1 guy he wants to fight. It’s not like with Deontay, who Fury lists at No.3 for some reason.
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