Fury-Klitschko

By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) says he’s bothered that he’s given Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) a lot of attention worldwide after losing to him by a close 12 round unanimous decision last November in Dusseldorf, Germany. Fury now holds Wladimir’s IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight titles, and he openly flaunts his disregard for the belts by saying they don’t matter to him. Wladimir wants to beat the living daylights out of Fury and shut his trap once and for all in their rematch next month.

Klitschko, 40, says he’s going to knock Fury off his perch next month by beating him in their rematch on July 9 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.

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By Allan Fox: It’s thought that it wouldn’t be in IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) to slug it out with challenger Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) in their rematch on July 9, because Wladimir has the much better punching power and the superior hand speed.

Fury, however, is saying he welcomes a more aggressive Wladimir inside the ring in their rematch, because he likes his chances against the 6’6” Ukrainian fighter if he chooses to slug with him.

In their previous fight last November, Wladimir and Fury spent most of the fight staring at each other without throwing many punches.

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By Jeff Aranow: 40-year-old former heavyweight world champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) is trying every training strategy he can get turn back the hands of time to get him ready for his rematch against IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) on July 9 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, England.

Besides swimming and his normal boxing routines, Wladimir is now working out in the Cryosauna. It’s a low temperature sauna that helps decrease inflammation. It could help a fighter like Wladimir to recover from his workouts. That would appear to be the theory behind it.

You can argue that would be the equivalent of having a short ice bath to decrease inflammation after a heavy workout. With Wladimir using cryosauna, it makes you wonder whether he has an injury that he’s trying to deal with.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) and IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) met for their Face to Face Fury/Klitschko on BoxNation to promote their rematch next month on July 9 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester. UK.

Wladimir, 40, hardly got a word in edge wise, as Fury frequently interrupted him when he was trying to speak, and ended up dominating the entire show. The moderator did a poor job of keeping Fury stifled so that Wladimir could speak when he was given a turn. The gist of the face off was Fury trying to convince Wladimir and the moderator that he doesn’t care if he loses the fight because he’s already getting paid.

Fury said he’ll retire if he loses. My impression was that Fury was utterly disingenuous most of the time, and spouting stuff that sounded more like psycho-babble that meaningful stuff that he really believed. Contrary what Fury was saying about how he doesn’t care if he loses, I think he DOES care very much.

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By Scott Gilfoid: IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) has put a big dent on burning off his huge pot belly that he came into training camp with five weeks ago. Fury, 27, still has a lot of fat he needs to burn off before his rematch against Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) on July 9 at the Manchester Arena in Manchester, UK.

Fury says he is expecting Wladimir to throw many more punches in the rematch, and be a different fighter than he was the last time they faced each other in November of last year. Fury says Wladimir has no other choice but to fight differently than he did last time.

I think that kind of goes without saying though, because Wladimir wasn’t even fighting. He was just walking around the ring looking confused. It’s not hard to improve on what Wladimir did the last time he fought because he looked so utterly clueless in the ring. Fury says he’s going to have a different fight strategy for this one.

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By Matt Stephens: IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion and Ring Magazine Fighter Of The Year Tyson Fury is due to defend his belts in a rematch against dethroned heavyweight king Wladimir Klitschko on July 9th of this year. He took the belts from Wladimir in Wlad’s home turf on November 28th 2015 – an achievement which is impossible to overestimate.

Wlad was last beaten in 2004 by Lamont Brewster but since then had accumulated the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, The Ring and lineal heavyweight titles! He was quite simply – one of the most dominant champions of all time. If you’re a fan of emotionally charged Hitler comparisons then this article isn’t for you. If you’re a fan of balanced, technical boxing discussion – you’re in the right place.

So what happened on that night in Germany vs Tyson Fury? Look through many articles, comments sections, YouTube videos, etc – and you’ll find big statements of how Wladimir ‘didn’t turn up’, ‘didn’t let his hands go’, ‘gave the titles away’, and as many other ridiculous statements as you can think of.

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By Rob Blakeman: Back in November last year boxing suffered one of its biggest ever tragedies. Not the death of a great former champion, no, even worse; Tyson Fury became the lineal Heavyweight Champion of the World. Vladimir Klitschko put in a career worst performance, practically giving his title away. Fury performed poorly too but slightly less so and thus to my mind he was winner by default in what was a positive horse tranquilizer of a ‘fight’.

Since the moment he was declared Champion Fury has believed this to be a license to do and say as he pleases, regardless of whether it steps well beyond the realms of common decency he has preferred streaming political and racial unconsciousness rather than talking about boxing. He has little or no self-censorship, spewing machine gun like, staccato bursts of asinine sound bites of malice and hatred, containing disjointed leaps in ideation to justify his fascistic ideas and pointless oppositions of various minorities and sections of society.

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