By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Tyson Fury is almost in a no-win situation with his fight this month against 36-year-old Steve Cunningham at New York’s Madison Square Garden.
The 6’9” Fury thinks he’s going to impress the American boxing fans with his first fight in the United States, but unless he scores a quick knockout – which is highly unlikely given his complete absence of power – he’s going to end up struggling against Cunningham.
The odd thing is Fury looks slower than he was previous. Taking the blubber off his normally flabby looking midsection should have led to Fury getting faster, but in this case he looks slower and weaker judging by his recent workout with his trainer.
By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated #4 WBC, #5 WBO, #8 IBF, heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) is still up in arms that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko is making him earn his title shot against him by working his way to a title shot instead of just having one plopped in his lap based on his victories over journeyman competition.
Fury said to the Dailymail.co.uk “A b****,” is how Fury sees the 37-year-old Wladimir. “He doesn’t want to fight back and he doesn’t want to fight anybody dangerous. So that, to me, is a b****.”
You have to wonder why Fury has been facing guys like Martin Rogan, Vinny Maddalone and Kevin Johnson instead of the likes of Deontay Wilder and Kubrat Pulev.
If Fury’s idea is that Wladimir has been avoiding dangerous heavyweights, then what does that say about Fury that he’s fighting guys like Rogan, Maddalone and Johnson? Wilder and Pulev would love to get their hands on Fury so that they could smash his fragile chin, but he’s not fighting them for some reason.
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten trash talking heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) is suddenly talking like he’s become a knockout artist rather than the 6’9” light hitting slapper that many boxing fans know him as. Fury, 24, faces fringe contender Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) next month on April 20th at Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York, New York, USA.
Fury sees himself winning by an easy KO as soon as he traps Cunningham and forces him to fight. Fury is expecting that Cunningham will run from him like he did against Tomasz Adamek last December in Cunningham’s controversial loss.
Fury said to Fightnews.com “He [Cunningham] will run, I’m sure of it, but as soon as I get hold of him and hit him with a couple of good shots, he’ll be on the floor…I will definitely become the first man to stop him.”
I don’t see how Fury will be able to stop Cunningham without power. I mean, I rate cruiserweights Yoan Pablo Hernandez, Wayne Braithwaite, Marco Huck and Krzysztof Wlodarczyk as being much bigger punchers than Fury, and yet Cunningham had no problem taking their power.
(Photo Credits: Wojtek Kubik Photography) By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) is perhaps the biggest trash talker in the heavyweight division right now, having taken over that title from the inactive David Haye. Despite all the trash talking that the light hitting 6’9” Fury does, he still hasn’t faced any quality heavyweights during his career for some reason.
On April 20th, Fury will be fighting a much smaller heavyweight in fringe contender Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York, New York, USA. Instead of being a good visitor to the U.S, Fury decided to trash talk Cunningham something fierce in their press conference yesterday, saying “You’re a small man, you’re chinny, you’re getting knocked out. You’ve been put down in early every fight you’ve had.”
By Scott Gilfoid: The 6’9” unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury (20-0, 14 KO’s) is banking on his huge size advantage over the 6’2” Steve Cunningham (25-5, 12 KO’s) as being enough of an advantage for him to win an easy victory next month on April 20th in their fight shown by NBC at the Madison Square Garden Theater, in New York, New York, USA.
Their fight will be an IBF eliminator for the #2 spot. The winner of the Fury-Cunningham fight will have to face unbeaten #1 IBF Kubrat Pulev for the final IBF eliminator. Fury doesn’t like the fact that he has to jump through two hoops instead of one to get to IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko for a title shot.
Fury said to I Film London, “I’ve got one thing to say to Wladimir Klitschko, you are a p***y old son. When you grow a pair of balls, come fight me and I’ll relieve you of all your belts. I’ll leave that glass chin of yours in shatters all over the ring.
Fury says he and his cousin Hughie Fury are the best heavyweights in the division, and his promoter Mick Hennessey already sees them as better heavyweights than the Klitschkos.
By 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.
By 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.