By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn is really counting on unbeaten British heavyweight Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) beating IBF/IBO/WBAWBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) in their fight later this year.
Hearn would like to match his fighter undefeated No.2 WBC Anthony Joshua (13-0, 13 KOs) up with Fury, because he feels it’s a fight that would be big enough to stage at Wembley Stadium in front of 80,000 fans in London, UK.
By Scott Gilfoid: Matchroom Sport promoter Eddie Hearn says he may fly to Panama to make a purse bid for the title fight between IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and Tyson Fury if the two fighters are unable to negotiate the fight.
They have until Monday to come to an agreement. If not, then it’ll go to a purse bid where the highest bidder can put on the fight. Hearn doesn’t promoter either fighter, but he’d like to stage it in the UK, where it would be a huge fight. Hearn would be doing Fury a big favor if he won the purse bid and then stuck the fight at the O2 Arena in London, UK.
By Scott Gilfoid: Former two division world champion David Haye has serious doubts whether fellow Brit Tyson Fury will ever make it into the ring to challenge IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. Haye suspects that the 6’9” Fury won’t go through with the fight.
Haye ultimately sees Fury instead going in another direction by facing another opponent rather than stepping good in the ring against a guy he can’t beat. Haye feels that Fury hasn’t been fighting guys that actually hit back, and he’s not fought someone as big as the 6’6” Wladimir.
By Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBO Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) will be getting a world title shot later this year against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) later this year by the virtue of Fury winning the WBO heavyweight eliminator bout against domestic level fighter Dereck Chisora last year in November, but Fury is likely to be in well over his head when he gets inside the ring with the arguably more talented Wladimir.
That’s what former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis believes. He thinks that Fury has faced no one during his brief seven-year pro career that is remotely as big or as talented as what he’ll be seeing in the ring when he faces the 6’6”, hard-punching Wladimir later this year.
By Scott Gilfoid: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) says he’ll be defending his titles next against his #1 WBO mandatory challenger Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) in Europe somewhere. Klitschko, 39, says he’s open to fighting in England, but it’s a fight that could also take place somewhere else in Europe.
One would have to assume that Wladimir will elect to stage the fight in Germany where he has a huge fan base and is capable of selling out stadiums over there.
Wladimir is looking very vulnerable nowadays after his poor performance against American Bryant Jennings last April.
By Scott Gilfoid: Mick Hennessy, the promoter for #1 WBO Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs), is hoping that IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) will travel to the UK to face the 6’9” Fury in one of the stadiums in either September or October.
If the Klitschko-Fury fight is staged in the UK, they can make big money by filling it with fans. A venue like Wembley Stadium in London would be ideal. However, for Hennessy to get his way in getting the 39-year-old Klitschko to travel to the UK, he’ll need to win the purse bid to make that happen.
By Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBO, #3 WBC, #3 IBF, #7 WBA heavyweight contender Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) says he’s going to obliterate IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) once he gets him inside the ring at some point in the future.
The 26-year-old Fury could get his shot at Klitschko later this year unless Klitschko retires or vacates his WBO title. Fury is the WBO mandatory challenger for Wladimir after he beat Dereck Chisora by a 10th round stoppage in November 2014.
By Dan Ambrose: IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko could be defending his titles against his #1 WBO mandatory Tyson Fury in his home country of the UK rather than in Germany where Wladimir has had most of his fights take place since turning pro 19 years ago.
Klitschko is reportedly interested in whipping Fury in front of his own British fans to put him in his place. Wladimir recently beat American Bryant Jennings in front of his own fans in the United States last April in a 12 round unanimous decision win in a fight that was tougher than expected.
By Scott Gilfoid: #1 WBO contender Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) saw heavyweight Wladimir Klitschko’s win over Bryant Jennings (19-1, 10 KOs) last Saturday night and he came away unimpressed with what he saw from the 39-year-old Ukrainian.
There was nothing in the performance from the 6’6” Wladimir (64-3, 53 KOs) that has Fury worried. Wladimir won the fight by a 12 round unanimous decision, but he took no chances with Jennings and seemed content with mostly with jabbing rather than throwing power shots. Wladimir treated Jennings like he was a knockout artist despite his history showing that he’s not a big puncher at all.
By Scott Gilfoid: After bellyaching about wanting a title shot against IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3, 53 KOs) for the past two years, #1 WBO mandatory challenger Tyson Fury (24-0, 18 KOs) is about to get his dream come true with Wladimir now saying he’ll be likely be his next opponent.
Now it’s up to Fury to show that he can back up his bold talk because the British fighter has been flapping his gums 24/7 about how he thinks he can beat the 6’6” Wladimir and now he’s going to be getting the chance to show what he can do. It’ll be good for these two fighters to finally get it over with and fight each other so that boxing fans can find out who the better man is.