By Scott Gilfoid: With him now signed for a big money rematch against Dereck Chisora (20-4, 13 KO’s) on July 26th, Tyson Fury (22-0, 16 KO’s) no longer has the option of taking a tune-up fight to get ready for that fight. It’s just too risky with the Chisora fight being only 4 months away. So, instead of Fury taking a tune-up, he plans on having an all-out spar with the tough as nails #15 WBC fringe contender Carlos Takam on either April 14th or the 15th to try and get ready for Chisora.
Fury wants to spar Takam 12 rounds behind closed doors, and he doesn’t want the results of the spar to be leaked out to the press for obvious reasons. For the fans who might not remember Takam is, he’s the guy that was robbed recently in his fight against the Cuban Michael Perez last January.
By Scott Gilfoid: The WBC might want to make an adjustment on their heavyweight rankings to move Mike Perez (20-0-1, 12 KO’s) from #5 WBC to something closer to #15 after his horrible performance last night in getting what many boxing fans saw as a gift 10 round draw against little known Carlos Takam (29-1-1, 23 KO’s) at the Bell Centre in Montreal, Canada.