Tyson Fury, the last unbeaten British heavyweight standing

fury5445By Scott Gilfoid: Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) is the last of the unbeaten heavily hyped British heavyweights, and his unbeaten mark could be going by the wayside very soon once he finally steps it up and faces a quality opponent for the first time in his career. With one highly hyped but limited heavyweight now exposed, Fury has a big target on him and he could be the next British heavyweight to go.

Last weekend we saw the other previously unbeaten UK heavyweight David Price (15-1, 13 KO’s) taste defeat for the first time in his career in getting destroyed in two rounds by American Tony Thompson in Liverpool, England. That leaves just Fury to be the last of the unbeaten Brit heavyweights.

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Fury-Cunningham winner to face Pulev in IBF heavyweight eliminator

pulev56By Steven Ocallaghan: On Saturday 20th of April in probably the famous garden since Eden, unbeaten heavyweight Tyson Fury 20-0 takes on American Steve “USS” Cunningham (25-5) at Madison Square Garden for the right to fight #1 IBF contender Kubrat Pulev 17-0 to be named mandatory challenger to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitchko.

I fully expect Fury to beat Cunningham but it won’t be easy. Cunningham has lost 5 times, all on points except one when in a close fight it was stopped early by an accidental head-butt with Cunningham slightly down on the score cards.

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Fury willing to face Pulev for the IBF mandatory spot

fury5423By Scott Gilfoid: In a big surprise, unbeaten Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) is saying he wants to fight for the #1 IBF mandatory spot if he gets past former IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) in their fight on April 20th for the #2 IBF spot at Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York, New York, USA.

Many boxing fans thought Fury, #4 WBC, #6 WBO, #9 IBF, was just fighting the 6’2” Cunningham just to stay busy while waiting to find out what WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko would do with his career.

Few people believes that Fury was actually interested in trying to become the IBF mandatory challenger because it would require that he beat #1 IBF Kubrat Pulev, a really tough fighter with more than enough skills to beat Fury, but it looks like Fury is willing to take that risk.

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Fury vs. Cunningham winner must fight Kubrat Pulev in IBF eliminator

pulev56By Scott Gilfoid: The winner of the April 20th fight between Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) and Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) wants a title shot against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko then they’re going to have to battle #1 IBF contender Kubrat Pulev (17-0, 9 KO’s) for the IBF #1 eliminator spot next instead of being able to go straightaway into the fight with the 6’6” Wladimir.

The Fury-Cunningham fight is only an eliminator for the IBF #2 spot, so there’s still going to be a lot of hard work for the winner of that fight.

In International Boxing Federation has ordered that the winner of Fury-Cunningham has to face Pulev. I can pretty much guess how this is going to go.

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Fury vs Cunningham!

fury4345Explosive 6’9″ heavyweight contender and former unbeaten, Irish, Commonwealth and British Heavyweight Champion Tyson Fury, 20-0, 14 KO’s, will make his New York debut on Saturday afternoon, April 20th when he takes on former cruiserweight World Champion Steve USS Cunningham, 25-5, 12 KO’s, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden.

This fight is an official IBF Heavyweight Voluntary Eliminator fight for the #2 position between #9, Tyson Fury and #12, Steve Cunningham. The winner will become #2 and must meet #1 or the leading available contender to establish the mandatory challenger for Heavyweight King Wladimir Klitschko. The fight will be broadcast at 4PM ET on NBC as a special 2 hour afternoon presentation of NBC Sports Fight Night.

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Fury: The TV networks turned down Deontay Wilder & Bryant Jennings as possible opponents

fury544By Scott Gilfoid: #4 WBC heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) is saying one of the television networks in the United States turned down both Deontay Wilder and Bryant Jennings as an opponent for his April 20th fight in New York. Fury says they only wanted 36-year-old Tomasz Adamek or 36-year-old Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s). Fury and #12 IBF Cunningham will be fighting on April 20th.

Fury said BaylorIC TV “It’s [Cunningham] to show the American people I’m the real deal and just a joke.”

Fury then went on a long rant, constantly changing subjects, blabbing about how he’s not being given a shot against the Klitschko brothers, and how he still won’t get a shot even if he beats Cunningham.

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Fury vs. Cunningham on April 20th: Tyson takes a step up

fury67By Scott Gilfoid: After all the talking that unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) has done about the Klitschko brothers being bad for boxing, Fury will be facing 36-year-old former IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) on April 20th at a venue still to be determined in New York.

This is Fury’s big named opponent. I can’t say impressed at all. Cunningham, #12 IBF, has lost three out of his last four fights, and not looked impressively offensively.

There are some boxing fans who think Cunningham should have gotten a decision win over 36-year-old Tomasz Adamek in their fight last December, but I’m not one of them. Cunningham just ran around the ring all night, throwing jabs and getting out-worked. Cunningham didn’t throw enough punches in that fight and he deserved to lose the fight.

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Tyson Fury to fight on April 20th in New York

fury4345By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) says he’ll be fighting in the United States on April 20th in New York against an opponent still to be determined. Sky Sports reports that the recently beaten former IBF cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) is the likely opponent the 24-year-old Fury will be facing in this fight.

That sounds about right. Cunningham has lost three out of his last four fights and only weighs a little over 200 pounds. What a great choice, Fury.

Fury said on his twitter “I will be in New York April 20 to show America what they have been missing. Unleash the Fury! Coming to America.”

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The Worst decisions in 2012: Abril-Rios, Adamek-Chambers, Adamek-Cunningham

rios434By Dan Ambrose: I must say that heavyweight contender Tomasz Adamek (48-2, 29 KO’s) has been quite lucky in 2012 with his very controversial decision wins over Eddie Chambers and Steve Cunningham. Those two fights along with former WBA World lightweight champion Brandon Rios’s win over Richard Abril has got to the worst decisions in 2012 among well-known fighters.

Rios (31-0-1, 23 KO’s) was given a split decision over Abril on April 14th of this year at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fight, seen by thousands of people, was completely dominated by Abril for the entire 12 rounds of the fight. Rios fought well enough to deserve maybe two rounds at the most, as he was getting with clean pinpoint shots from the Cuban Abril throughout the fight and was like watching Floyd Mayweather Jr. pick apart a limited Ricky Hatton.

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Adamek dropped from #3 to #5 in Ring Ratings despite win over Cunningham

adamek45By Dan Ambrose: Ring Magazine has decided to drop former two division world champion Tomasz Adamek (48-2, 29 KO’s) from the number #3 to the #5 spot in their heavyweight rankings after his very controversial 12 round split decision victory over Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) last Saturday night.

The Ring factored in Adamek’s other recent controversial decision win over a one-armed Eddie Chambers as well as Adamek’s struggles to beat 2nd tier fighters Travis Walker and Nagy Aguilera recently, and they concluded that he needed to be dropped down in the rankings to #5 because he’s simply not fighting at a high level right now. Winning fights by controversial decisions obviously haven’t helped Adamek.

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