Hughie Fury

By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (8-0, 5 KO’s) could be facing former British cruiserweight champion Shane McPhilbin (8-7-1, 5 KO’s) next, according to Boxing roundup. McPhilbin, 27, has lost five out of his last six fights in the past year and his career seems to be stuck in quicksand ever since he missed out on a 1st round knockout of Enzo Maccarinelli in the infamous fight where the 1st round ended 47 seconds early with Maccarinelli badly hurt.

I don’t believe for a second that Hughie would be fighting a dangerous puncher like McPhilbin at this point in his career. It’s a fight that I could see someone like Deontay Wilder taking when he was 8-0, but I don’t see Hughie taking this fight because Hughie doesn’t have the kind of power that Deontay has going for him.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten prospect Hughie Fury (8-0, 4 KO’s) chalked up his 8th straight victory in beating 36-year-old journeyman Moses Matovu (4-29-4) by a 4 round points decision win on Saturday night at the WonderWorld Xscape, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK. Referee Alvin Finch scored it 40-35 for the 18-year-old Hughie. Matovu down in the 2nd round, but Hughie was unable to finish him off.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Peter Fury, the trainer and father of unbeaten heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (7-0, 5 KO’s), thinks the 6’6” Hughie is going to surprise people this year as he marches forward to try and eclipse former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson’s record for being the youngest heavyweight to win a world title.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (7-0, 5 KO’s) stopped 39-year-old journeyman Ivica Perkovic (19-21, 14 KO’s) in a 5th round retirement on Friday night at the Fairways Hotel in Dundalk, Ireland. The heavy set Perkovic failed to come out for the 6th round after taking a barrage of body shots from the 6’6” Fury in the 5th round. Fury looked like a slow plodder in the fight, and nothing like what you’d like to see from a young heavyweight. He didn’t look like a young Wladimir Klitschko, Lennox Lewis or Deontay Wilder.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (6-0, 4 KO’s) will be fighting this Friday night against 39-year-old Croatian fighter Ivica Perkovic (19-20, 14 KO’s) in a scheduled 6 round bout at the Fairways Hotel, in Dundalk, Ireland.

It takes a second to get over the shock of seeing the god awful record that Perkovic has, but actually his record looks outstanding compared to the 18-year-old Fury’s last opponent Tomas Mrazek (7-40-6, 5 KO’s).

As you can see, Hughie’s promoter Mick Hennessy is taking it very, very easy with Hughie to the point where I don’t see how he’s getting any benefit out of the fight.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (6-0, 4 KO’s) will be facing an opponent with a winning record next month on July 12th against Ireland’s Darren Corbett (29-8-1, 16 KO’s) in a scheduled 6 round bout at the Fairways Hotel, in Dundalk, Ireland.

That’s the good news. The bad news is that Corbett is 40-years-old, has lost 3 out of his last 4 fights, hasn’t fought since last December, and hasn’t fought anyone that you can call a good fighter. So in other words, Corbett has won 29 fights, but he’s won them against guys that most people have never heard of and probably never will hear of unless they become a boxing historian.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (5-0, 4 KO’s) has his 6th mismatch of his career tonight against journeyman Tomas Mrazek (7-40-6, 5 KO’s) in a 6-round scheduled fight that will be lucky if it goes one round at the Epic Centre, Magdalen Street, Norwich, Norfolk, UK.

Hughie, 6’6”, is on a mission to break former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson’s record of being the youngest heavyweight champion in the world when he picked up a world title at the age of 20.

Hughie is doing a good job of padding his own record against opposition that I wouldn’t even call C level, but I don’t see Hughie facing the kind of opposition that is putting him on course for even coming close to breaking Mike Tyson’s record.

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By Scott Gilfoid: 6’6” heavyweight prospect Hughie Fury (5-0, 4 KO’s) will be looking for his sixth straight win tomorrow night against journeyman Tomas Mrazek (7-40-6, 5 KO’s) in a six-round bout at the Epic Centre, Magdalen Street, Norwich, UK.

Fury, 18, has all the advantages in this fight – speed, power, youth, you name it. This is just another mismatch that is supposedly getting Fury ready for better opponents.

I don’t agree with the idea that total fodder opposition gets one ready for better fighters. Fury’s promoter should skip to the chase and put Fury in with a decent B level fighter and see how he does.

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By Scott Gilfoid: Heavyweight Hughie Fury (5-0, 4 KO’s) stayed in the unbeaten ranks with a 1st round TKO victory over 38-year-old Ladislav Kovarik (10-15, 5 KO’s) last Saturday night at the Glow, Bluewater, Greenhithe, Kent, UK. Fury, 18, knocked the heavyset Kovarik down twice in the 1st round before the fight was stopped at 1:37 of the round by referee Mark Green following a second knockdown.

The first knockdown came from a chopping right hand to the head of Korvarik. Fury had gone right hand crazy and was nailing Kovarik with one right hand after another without using his left at all and finally Kovarik collapsed on the canvas after Hughie caught him with a chopping right hand to the head. After Kovarik got up, Hughie continued to unload almost nothing but right hands until he dropped him with a sweeping left hand that didn’t have much power on it.

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