By Scott Gilfoid: In a disappointing fight, unbeaten heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (17-0, 9 KOs) will be facing 37-year-old war horse Konstantin Airich (22-14-2, 18 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round fight on Saturday night in the chief support of the Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury fight at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany.
Hughie, 21, says his team has had problems finding an opponent to face him, as there have been fighters that have pulled out of the fight such as Nichola Firtha.
By Scott Gilfoid: There will be two Fury’s on Saturday’s fight card at the ESPRIT Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. Besides Tyson Fury, who will be battling IBF/IBO/WBA/WBA heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (17-0, 9 KOs) will be putting his unbeaten record on the line against 38-year-old Adnan Redzovic (16-1, 5 KOs) in a scheduled 10 round fight.
Hughie, 21, had previously been talked about fighting 36-year-old journeyman Nicolai Firtha, but that fight won’t be happening for some reason.
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (17-0, 9 KOs) picked up his 9th knockout of his career on Saturday night in stopping 34-year-old journeyman Emilio Ezequiel Zarate (18-15-3, 9 KOs) in the 2nd round of a scheduled eight round bout at the City Academy Sports Centre, in Bristol, Avon, United Kingdom.
The 6’6 Hughie nailed Zarate with a clubbing right hand to the left side of his head, causing the Argentinian fighter to fall down face first on the canvas where he clutched the left side of his head in pain.
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (16-0, 8 KOs) will be taking on a soft touch this Saturday night in 34-year-old Argentinian journeyman Emilio Ezequiel Zarate (18-14-3, 9 KOs) in a scheduled 8 round fight at the City Academy Sports Centre, in Bristol.
It was pretty clear that the 6’6” Hughie was going to be facing an easy mark when he still didn’t have an opponent picked out by Tuesday of this week. I mean, the fight was only four days away and Hughie still didn’t have an opponent.
By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (16-0, 8 KOs) says he doesn’t think that WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) will be a champion by next year in 2016, because he thinks that his cousin #1 WBO Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) will have beaten him and IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko to unify all the titles in the division. Hughie, 6’6”, is predicting that Tyson will score a knockout over Wladfimir in their fight next month on November 28th.
It’s interesting that Hughie feels that Wilder won’t last long as the WBC heavyweight champion because he had a chance to fight him recently but he opted not to take the fight. Hughie says that he was only given three weeks’ notice to take the fight for September 26th, but from I remember that when Hughie’s trainer Peter Fury mentioned that he had just received an offer for the fight against Wilder there was still 7 ½ weeks to go before September 26th, so I’m not sure where Hughie gets this 3 weeks stuff. As far as I can tell, it was 7 ½ weeks to go before the fight.
By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (16-0, 8 KOs) will be putting his unbeaten record on the line next month against a still to be arranged (TBA) opponent on November 14th on the Nick Blackwell vs. Elliot Matthews card at the City Academy Sports Centre, in Bristol, Avon, UK.
It’s an absolutely horrible card right now, so hopefully they bring in a halfway decent opponent for the 21-year-old Hughie to fight. We don’t want to see a graveyard raided in order to find someone for the 6’6” Hughie to fight. I mean, he’s way behind schedule in trying to set the record for the youngest heavyweight ever to win a world title.
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (16-0, 8 KOs) is still fighting on the undercard of the Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) vs. Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) fight card, says trainer Peter Fury.
Hughie was previously scheduled to fight 36-year-old Nicolai Firtha (21-11-1, 8 KOs) on the undercard of Klitschko-Fury on October 24th, but after Wladimir suffered a calf injury, causing the fight to be postponed until November 28th, it was unclear if Hughie would still be on the card. But according to Peter, Hughie will be on the card fighting Firtha.
By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (16-0, 8 KOs), the cousin of unbeaten #1 WBO heavyweight contender Tyson Fury, will be fighting next month in November and then again in December against opposition still to be determined, according to his trainer Peter Fury.
Peter expects Hughie to finish out 2015 with a record of 18-0, and then move ahead to fight on the undercard of Tyson Fury’s fight against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko when/if that fight does take place. At this point who knows when that fight will happen?
By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten Hughie Fury (16-0, 8 KOs) could have been the one that fought WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (35-0, 34 KOs) last night instead of Johann Duhaupas (32-3, 20 KOs) in Birmingham, Alabama.
Hughie was the first choice by Wilder’s management, but Hughie’s trainer/father Peter Fury said that they couldn’t take the fight because they wanted 8 weeks and they would have gotten less than that.
By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury’s trainer Peter Fury says that his fighter is willing to take on any of the top British heavyweights in the division right now. Peter acknowledges that the 21-year-old Hughie may not be ready to take them all on at this time, but he’s still willing to do it.
Peter thinks that the 6’6” Hughie will be ready to be what he describes as a force in the heavyweight division in two or three years. But In the meantime, he wants to take the slow approach to developing him.