Tyson Fury won’t be retiring after Klitschko fight, says Peter F

By Boxing News - 05/13/2016 - Comments

fury#1By Scott Gilfoid: Trainer Peter Fury says IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KLOs) won’t be retiring from the sport after his July 9 rematch against former world champion Wladimir Klitschlo (64-4, 53 KOs) in their rematch at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK.

Fury, 27, had been saying recently that he’ll be wrapping up his boxing career after his next fight against the 40-year-old Klitschko. Fury came into training looking very, very fat with a midsection that you’d normally see a non-athlete.

Peter says that Fury will be around for many years and he actually expects him to come into the Klitschko rematch stronger than he was in the first fight. It’s hard to believe that because Fury says he came into training camp close to 60 pounds’ overweight. In other words, training camp is pretty much going to be a fat farm. When you take off large amounts of fat like Fury is doing, it’s next to impossible to build muscle.

It makes sense for Peter Fury to be speaking up right now about this retirement business because if he’d stayed quiet about it, the boxing public might have shown little interest in the Klitschko vs. Fury 2 rematch. The fans want to know that the fighters will be continuing their careers after this fight. If the fans think there won’t be a Fury vs. Anthony Joshua fight in the future, then they might not want to waste their time seeing a rematch between Fury and Klitschko. The rematch figures to be another boring affair anyway with Fury scratching at the air with his punches and Wladimir fighting timidly. I still can’t get the image out of my mind of their previous fight last November in Dusseldorf, Germany. That was an INCREDIBLY boring fight to watch. I don’t know how Fury’s fans could get worked up about his win over Klitschko because I saw it as pretty much a draw. Fury landed nothing and the same with Klitschko. Just a couple of timid rabbits in the ring in that fight.

“Absolutely not. I think he’s going to be around for the next decade and he’s got to cement his legacy. I believe he will. He’s a fighting man down to his boots,” said Peter Fury to skysports.com. “The only way Tyson will walk away from boxing is if he gets nailed to the canvas. There’s your answer on that. Tyson is always on the wind up. He’s training probably the hardest and the best he’s ever trained in his life.”

Well, I never bought the old ‘I’m going to retire bit from Fury even for an instant. I knew that there is no way that he would walk away from the sport with all the loot still on the table for a fight or two against IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua. As soon as Joshua’s promoter Eddie Hearn waves some of that green under Fury’s snoot, I see him coming to his senses and readily signing his John Hancock on a contract for that fight.

Unfortunately, I don’t see the Joshua vs. Fury fight being possible for 2016 because I think Fury is going to get beaten by Klitschko in the rematch by a knockout. After Fury gets whipped by Klitschko, he’s going to need to take some time to rebuild his career so that he can make the fight against Joshua a big one. If Fury gets greedy and impatient and signs for a fight against Joshua after a knockout loss to Klitschko, then I see the fight generating far fewer PPV buys on Sky Box Office than it would have been.

I figure Fury might need five to seven wins under his belt for him to come back from a defeat against Klitschko. I’m talking about good wins, not wins over stumble bums dragged in from the streets to make Fury look better than he actually is. If Fury bests a couple of no names and then signs for a fight against Joshua, I think the fight won’t do well.

That’s what I see happening. I don’t think Fury or Hearn will have the patience to build the Joshua fight up proper after Fury loses to Klitschko. They’ll be in too much of a rush to get the fight made, and the fans will still be remembering how Klitschko beat Fury in their rematch and they won’t want to pay to see what amounts to be a circus-like farce between him and Joshua.

“This time, he won’t be fitter because he was super-fit last time but he’s going to be a lot stronger. He’ll have a lot more power and this will be evident when he steps in the ring,” said Peter about how he thinks Fury will be stronger after having removed all the blubber he’s packed on.

I think Peter is dreaming seriously if he thinks Fury will be stronger for having burned off 60 pounds of lard. I don’t know of anyone that will be stronger after having taken off 60 pounds of fat. For Fury to be stronger, he’ll need to first burn the blubber off, which will take the entire training camp unfortunately, and then he’ll need to start bulking up with the resistance exercises and eat well. He’ll need to lower the cardio work so that he can build the muscle. The reality is that Fury won’t have time to do all that in one training camp.

The only way that kind of thing would work is if Fury had come into the training camp already in shape with a low amount of fat on him. Peter could then work on building up his muscles, which aren’t very developed unfortunately. With Fury coming into camp flabby and out of shape, there’s no way he can build muscles while stripping off fat. It doesn’t work that way. Fury would need back to back training camps to build muscles. We’re probably talking about a good 16-week training camp to first take off the blubber in the first eight to nine weeks, and then focus the last half of the camp on adding some badly needed muscle strength to Fury’s beanpole physique.