By Barry Holbrook: Tyson Fury says he’s hoping to leave the hospital today to begin training for his third fight with Deontay Wilder on October 9th.
Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) is sounding optimistic about being able to start up his training camp for a defense of his WBC heavyweight title against the always dangerous former WBC belt-holder Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs).
Fury’s newborn daughter Athena is in the ICU at the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool. Things are going well for Fury’s daughter, and it appears they’ll be able to leave the hospital soon.
The training camp for Fury will be a slightly shortened one consisting of six weeks of hard work, as he missed out on some time due to his family emergency.
However, Fury believes that he’s got more than enough time to put in the work to defeat Wilder for a second time to close the chapter on their rivalry once and for all.
Fury is ready to start training for Wilder
Last month, Fury, 33, and Wilder were scheduled to meet for their trilogy fight on July 24th in Las Vegas, but the contest had to be postponed after the ‘Gypsy King’ became ill with COVID-19.
Pushing the Fury-Wilder III fight back three months to October 9th will help Fury, as he was rumored to have been having problems with his sparring with Jared Anderson and Efe Ajagba, two dangerous unbeaten heavyweights with superb offensive skills.
The extra time that Fury is now getting to get ready for the Wilder fight will enable him to hit the weights hard to bulk up and build up his strength to get back to the level he was 1 1/2 years ago when he blitzed Wilder in a seventh round knockout in February 2020 in their rematch.
Fury weighed 273 lbs to 231 lbs for Wilder, enabling Tyson to use his 42-lb weight advantage to overwhelm the much lighter ‘Bronze Bomber’ in a one-sided massacre.
What Fury is hoping to do now is get his weight back up to the 270-lb region so he can run over Wilder like a huge semi-truck.
Tyson optimistic
“I’ve just finished a little run this morning, getting it in,” Fury said on Twitter.
“Still here at the hospital, hopefully, we’ll be leaving today, and I can start training camp for the big dosser [Wilder].
Daily Grind 💪 pic.twitter.com/u6ShcdmX9Z
— TYSON FURY (@Tyson_Fury) August 18, 2021
Wilder will potentially have an advantage over Fury in conditioning, as he’s been working hard for the last several months without stop. He hasn’t had the same type of problems that have slowed Fury down with family emergency and COVID-19.
In looking at Wilder’s mitt workouts with coach Malik Scott, he appears to be focusing on using more head and body movement to prepare for the trilogy match with Fury.