By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury’s father John Fury says the ‘Gypsy King’ is going to use the size that he’s put on since his first fight against Deontay Wilder to “BULLY” him, and knock him out in their rematch on February 22.
John says former IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Fury (29-0-1, 20 KOs) will weigh in the mid-260s rather than the mid-250s for his previous fight with Deontay.
John acknowledges that Fury was weak last time he fought WBC heavyweight champion Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KOs), but he blames that on him losing weight. He claims that Fury was only 50% there mentally and 50% physically last time he tangled with Wilder.
If John is on the level about the 6’9″ Fury planning on coming in heavier for the rematch, it’s going to make it harder for him to move. You can argue that the only reason Fury did as well as he did was because he was jabbing and moving the entire fight. As soon as Fury stopped moving as much, Wilder dropped him twice in the last four rounds. As such, if John is banking on a bigger Fury knocking Wilder out, it could backfire on him.
Tyson will knockout Wilder because he’s bigger – John
I see it like this. The last time he fought Deontay Wilder, he was in the worst possible shape he could be,” said John about Fury’s fight against Deontay last year. “He was only there 50% mentally and 50% bodily. So he’s going to come in strong and big. To be honest and truthful, if he couldn’t beat him then he has no chance now.
“You got to take his right hand away, that’s what they got to work on,” John said in revealing Tyson’s key to victory over Wilder. “Give him some rough stuff, make him work, Wilder. Put him under pressure. Take him to places he’s never been before. I know Tyson will get the stoppage, because he’ll be a lot bigger, and a lot stronger.
“I believe he’ll come in at his natural weight of 18 [stone] 10 and 18 [stone] 12, and bully this man,” said John about Fury’s likely weight for the Wilder rematch. “Nobody has bullied him and worked his body, and take him into the deep water areas and see what happens,” said Fury.
John makes it sound so simple in the way he explains his reasons for believing a fat Fury will beat Wilder. Unfortunately, it makes no sense at all. Packing 10 to 15 lbs of extra fat on Fury is only going to slow him down, and make him more hittable. We already know what happened to Fury when Wilder nailed him with shots that last time they fought. Fury went to sleep, and didn’t know what hit him in the 12th.
Tyson means business against Wilder
“I cannot stand by and let my son go into the biggest fight of his life with the best people around him,” said John Fury to secondsout. “And I don’t know what between him and Ben. I think it was Ben’s decision to leave. He’s gone back to where he was 12, 13 years ago at the Kronk Gym when they had Emanuel Steward. Sugar Hill has worked with Tyson before, and if he hadn’t,he wouldn’t have picked him.
“It had nothing to do with me,” said John about Fury switching out trainer Ben Davison in favor of Sugar Hill. “Tyson made the choice entirely. It seems like a good move. He asked me about it, and I said, ‘It was a good move, son.’ He’s going out nice and early to get acclimatized. He went out Thursday this week, so he means business,” said John on Fury coming to the U.S early to start training for the February 22 rematch with Wilder.
John is doing a lot of bragging about his son Fury, but all things that he’s saying sounds like a pipe dream. It’s fine for John to have a nice vision of how great things will be if Fury suddenly became a puncher overnight for this fight, but it’s not realistic. Fury has been a feather-fisted fighter for his entire career, and he’s not going to suddenly find power at 31.
Once Wilder swats Fury with a hard right hand for the first time on February 22, he’ll revert to the scared, running fighter that we saw in the first fight. The mind is willing but the body is weak. Fury can’t punch, and he obviously can’t take Wilder’s big shots. If he could, he wouldn’t have been knocked down twice last December.
Wilder only has a right hand – John
“Take away his right hand and does he got?” said John about Wilder. “An old man [Luis Ortiz] was beating him until he detonated that bomb, and he does have that equalizer. And it is a worry, but if they know what they’re doing, and they keep their mind on the job, it shouldn’t be a problem.
“His left is pretty wild, isn’t it?” John said about Wilder. “Tyson can see him [Wilder] left from a mile away. Tyson will be a lot more focused this time. Don’t forget, Tyson can punch himself, he’s stopped 19 foes out of 29 contests. so if he hits Wilder on the chin or the body, he’s going to go.
“I had him on the pads, and I couldn’t hold the pads,” John said in raving about Fury’s power. “He was ripping my shoulders and arms, and I’m 19 and 20 stone in weight. I thought, if this Tyson fights Wilder, it’s going to be a short night, and I believe that this time. It’s Tyson’s time,” said John.
The only way that Fury can take away Wilder’s right hand is by moving, and if he does that, he won’t be able to knock him out. For Fury to have a shot at stopping Wilder, he’s going to need to be stationary so he can sit down on his shots properly.
A fat, slow Fury isn’t going to be able to move for very long before Wilder catches up to him and cleans his clock with a peach of a right hand. Last time, it took until the 9th round before Deontay flattened Fury. This time, it could happen in the first 4 rounds, especially if Fury is heavier and can’t move.
Tyson will be a different fighter for Wilder rematch – John
“He will be a different fighter. He will be weighing in heavier; closer to his weight,” said John Fury to thesun.co.uk. “He’s six foot nine; he can carry close to 18st 10lbs, even 19 stone. But once he drops that seven or eight pounds the power seems to go with it.
“But up at 18st 12lbs, I had him on the pads last week and he was ripping my body in half,” said John about the Gypsy King Tyson. “When Tyson went the first time [against Wilder], a welterweight could have hit harder and he couldn’t beat him then.”
John failed to mention Fury’s massive scare over his right eye from his last fight against Otto Wallin. Fury was cut by Wallin the 3rd, and the fight should have been stopped to save the cut from getting worse. Instead, Fury went the distance, and his cut required 47 stitches to close.
This could work against Fury is if comes into fight heavier, slower and there to be hit by Wilder. You have to believe that Fury’s punch resistance will be the same as the last time he fought Wilder. If Fury couldn’t handle Wilder’s power without taking a five second snooze in the 12th the first time they fought, nothing will change in the rematch.
Actually, a lot will change. Jack Reiss, the referee that worked the first Wilder-Fury fight, won’t be working the rematch. So if Wilder knocks Fury out like he did last year, the fight will almost surely be stopped.