Tyson Fury faces his biggest test yet in Steve Cunningham on Saturday

599(Photo Credits to: Rich Graessle/Main Events) By Thomas Cowan: Unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury faces two-time cruiserweight champion Steve Cunningham at Madison Sqaure Garden on Saturday night in an IBF eliminator for the #2 spot. This is Fury’s biggest test in his career so far because Cunningham’s got lightning fast hand speed and is excellent defensively but in my opinion he does lack power.

I’ve been very surprised about the amount of criticism coming Fury’s way for picking out Cunningham as his opponent. Fury made it clear he wanted to face an American heavyweight and I don’t really see any better options.

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Chisora hoping Fury beats Cunningham

598(Photo Credits to Larry Levanti/Main Events) By Scott Gilfoid: Former British/Commonwealth heavyweight champion Dereck Chisora is pulling for unbeaten Irish heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) to beat American Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) this Saturday in Fury’s pro debut at the Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York, New York, USA.

Chisora’s reasoning’s for backing Fury are pretty simple and straight forward. Chisora is backing Fury because he sees him as a Brit, although Fury seems to be relating more to his Irish blood as of late.

Fury said to Irish-boxing.com “All my people are from Ireland. I was born in Manchester but I am Irish…when I fight I represent Ireland.”

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One of the busiest boxing weekends of the year is on tap!

By Yoel Carratala: This upcoming weekend is loaded with World Class Boxing action. We will have major action in a number of weight classes featuring some big names, world title fights and possible futures stars.

The actions get started on Friday in Atlantic City on ESPN Friday Night Fights at 10:30 P.M. with a Triple-header. This card features Dominican Republic’s Star and current Interim WBA Featherweight Champion Javier “El Abejon” Fortuna (21-0, 15 KOs) defending his crown against Mexico’s Miguel “Mikol” Zamudio (21-1-1 13KOs).

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British fights this weekend: Cleverly-Krasniqi, Fury-Cunningham & Chisora-Avila

cleverly6By Lee Smith: There are a couple of Brits fighting this weekend in some interesting fights. All are at different stages in there career and if any of them were to lose then there careers would be taking a huge huge step back. However, I am predicting that won’t happen.

Derek Chisora is fighting virtually unknown Argentinian Hector Alfredo Avila in a comeback fight having lost his last 3 fights. Chisora is actually a lot better than his 15-4 record shows; having only lost to top class opposition. He is a former British and Commonwealth champion. When he was just 14-0, he signed to fight Wladimir Klitschko for the World Title. The fight never took place and Chisora eventually lost the titles to now World Title Contender Tyson Fury on Points.

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Khan: Fury needs to keep quiet and prove himself

fury68By Scott Gilfoid: Amir Khan thinks unbeaten heavyweight contender should stop talking so much in the media about how great he is and start trying to prove himself instead. Fury has been calling himself the best heavyweight fighter in the planet recently in what some boxing fans see as a poor imitation of Muhammad Ali.

Fury doesn’t have Ali’s skills and instead has been beating 3rd tier heavyweights with his big size advantage over them.

Khan said to the mirror.co.uk “With Tyson Fury, he hasn’t proven anything or won anything big yet…If I were him, I’d stay quiet and show off my skills.”

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Fury refuses to take part in coin toss with Cunningham at final press conference

fury45By Scott Gilfoid: Irish heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) flat out said no to the idea of a coin toss at the final press conference with his opponent Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) today to determine who would be the fighter that comes out second for their fight on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York.

As soon as promoter Kathy Duva produced a coin and announced they were going to do a coin toss, Fury got bent out of shape and went into a long-winded rant, bragging about himself and downgrading Cunningham. It seemed to go on forever before Fury finally closed his yap so that other people could talk.

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Tyson Fury: Will you call Steve a bum when I beat him?

fury1qBy Daniel Mcglinchey: Outspoken heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) faces off against two time world champion Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) this Saturday night at MSG, New York. During the press conference between the two heavyweights, a Cunningham fan in the crowd made the comment of “Who have you fought? Bums” Tyson’s reply was quite interesting “Everyone is a bum after Tyson Fury has beaten them, when I beat Steve is he then a bum too?”

Tyson’s last 10 opponents include 4 undefeated fighter’s when he went up against them, 2 world title challengers and the current English Heavyweight title holder (not bad for someone of only 24). Fury was a big underdog in the Derek Chisora battle. Chisora was respected and the clear favorite before the fight, but after Fury came out victorious winning virtually every round. Derek is then automatically a bum in many people’s eyes.

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Who are the top 5 current Heavyweight fighters in the world?

wladimir454By Daniel Mcglinchey: Here is a list of the top 5 boxers in the Heavyweight division-

1. Wladimir Klitschko 59- 3 (50)
Number 1 in my opinion has to be Wladimir, with an outstanding record of 59/3 with a staggering 50 knockouts, undefeated in over 9 years, taking on the best in the division, and still going strong as a world champion at 37 has him top of the list for me. His boxing stance and style seems to be working very well as a few years ago Wlad ate the mat a few times due to a suspect chin. His ability to avoid taking big shots is highly impressive. Notable wins over David Haye, Calvin Brock and Chris Byrd have him top of my list.

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Fury now targeting Arreola-Stiverne winner instead of Pulev

fury5445By Scott Gilfoid: Irish heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) says he’s been told by the WBC president Jose Sulaiman that he has first dibs on the winner of the April 27th fight between Chris Arreola vs. Bermane Stiverne to fight to become the mandatory challenger for the WBC heavyweight title held by 41-year-old Vitali Klitschko.

What’s new about this is that Fury had been talking about fighting unbeaten #1 IBF contender Kubrat Pulev to try and become the mandatory challenger for IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.

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Tyson Fury vs. Steve Cunningham this Saturday, April 20th in Madison Square Garden, New York

fury1By Scott Gilfoid: The moment of truth has arrived for the unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) in his fight this Saturday night against the MUCH more experienced and arguably MUCH more talented Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) at the Madison Square Garden Theater, New York, New York, USA.

Fury, 24, has two ways to go if he wins this fight. He’s been promised a shot at the winner of the Chris Arreola vs. Bermane Stiverne fight by World Boxing Council president Jose Sulaiman to get a shot to become the mandatory challenger for WBC heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko or he can choose to go the more dangerous route of fighting unbeaten #1 IBF Kubrat Pulev to try and become the mandatory challenger for IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko.

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