By Scott Gilfoid: It looks like we won’t be seeing the Tyson Fury vs. Wladimir Klitschko fight for some time due to the 39-year-old Klitschko’s injured left calf injury. Fury is saying that he’s hearing that they might not be able to reschedule their title fight until next February.
Sky Box Office doesn’t have a date in November for the Klitschko-Fury fight to be rescheduled. Fury believes that the next available date will be February, which is four months away.
Heck, Fury might as well restart his training camp in a month from now because he’s going to have ages to wait for the fight with Klitschko to take place.
Fury had his chance to fight the younger WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder for his title next, but Fury didn’t want that fight. He felt he was making the smarter move by going after the old lion Wladimir rather than the young Wilder, who has a full set of claws that he would be using to rip into Fury if he’d have agreed to the fight. But at least Fury would be fighting and not sitting out for the remainder of the year.
If Fury doesn’t fight for the remainder of 2015, then he’ll have only fought once this year against Christian Hammer. Fury fought only two times in 2014, and once in 2013. Fury has got to be rusty as heck with all that inactivity.
“They’re saying now that there won’t be a reschedule until February. What do you recon about that,” Fury said on Periscope. “There might not be a fight in November because Sky Box Office don’t have a date. So now I’m being told I might have to wait until February to smash him [Klitschko] in. That is a downer for me, because Wlad says I may be mentally insecure. I’m still a Gypsy warrior. So I’m going to have to go to the pub and have 10 pints a day for the next six to eight weeks, and by then he might want to fight me. After I’ve had those beers for the next press conference, I’m going to turn up wearing tape around my mouth just in case I say anything that frightens him away. I will not talk in conferences. I’m on another level. “The big Russian teddy bear, who’s afraid of his own shadow, all those great champions won’t fight me. They’re all scared of the furious one because they know to beat me, they have to nail me to the canvas. To nail me to the canvas, you have to stand in front of me and engage in a fight. When it comes to fighting, you don’t mess around with Gypsy’s. I know they’re not to be messed about with,” Fury said.
Even if the fight with Kitschko is rescheduled for February, there’s no telling whether he’ll be able to make it into the ring for that month as well. Fury would still be counting on the nearly 40-year-old Klitschko being able to make it through a training camp without him tearing muscle, tendon, breaking a bone or suffering a cut.
Klitschko could also reinjure his torn left calf muscle and that would wreck Fury’s plans. I mean, I hate to speculate, but when you’re dealing with an old lion like Wladimir, it’s possible he could suffer an injury at any time.
Wladimir might surprise Fury with the news that he’ll be ready to fight in November, but that’s not going to help Fury if Sky Box Office doesn’t have a fight date for that month. Unless Sky can find something in November, Fury and Klitschko are going to need to wait until next year for their fight to take place.
I’m wondering if Fury has some opt out language written into the contract that will enable him to bail if Wladimir keeps suffering injuries over and over, or if his left calf injury fails to respond. If this thing lingers well into 2016, then Fury should be able to move on and look to fight Deontay for his WBC title. It’s a fight that could probably fill Wembley Stadium in London. Both guys around the same age and almost the same height.
“I see the man with no name [David Haye], the toe breaker, had something to say about boxing,” Fury said. “The Tyson Fury curse rolls on. You mean the curse of being a [expletive] house rolls on. Haye is what he is. We all know what he is,” Fury said.
This is in response to Haye’s gloating comments on his Twitter. Here’s Haye’s tweet:
Seems Klitschko got hit with the "Fury injury curse" as well! Clearly The Boxing Gods don't feel Fury deserves that retirement pay cheque!
— David Haye (@mrdavidhaye) September 25, 2015
Fury will get a title shot sooner or later if he’s willing to wait for Wladimir to get through his injury.
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