Tyson Fury (25-0, 18 KOs) is getting his 15 minutes of fame with his recent upset win over 39-year-old past his best IBF/IBO/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-4, 53 KOs) last November. Fury, 27, has the spot light on him and is getting a ton of positive attention right now. He soon will have to prove whether his victory over Klitschko was just a fluke thing, as the two fighters will be facing each other at some point in 2016. Fury will need to show the fans whether he’s good enough to finish off Wladimir and send him possibly into retirement.
Fury is going to need to show that he’s good enough to beat a motivated and well-trained Wladimir for the second fight. I’m not sure that Fury will be able to do that because he’s so flawed, and so vulnerable with his straight up and down fighting style.
Wladimir made a big speech recently about how he’s “greater” in defeat than he was in victory. It made no sense at all what Wladimir was saying, but it appeared that he was trying to make himself feel better about his defeat. It was very strange.
“I now begin to realize that you are even greater in defeat,” Wladimir said. “The Klitschko story will continue. Failure is not an option. I couldn’t show my full potential at any time. This is what I want to change in the rematch – and I will.”
If Wladimir does show his “full potential” in the rematch, then it’s quite possible that Fury is going to be up the creek without a paddle in this fight. It’s no secret that Fury doesn’t have any punching power to speak of, and he mainly just paws with his shots. He looked in poor form in his win over WLadimir.
The only reason Fury won the fight was because Wladimir was even worse than him. It was two terrible heavyweights in the ring and the less terrible one won the fight. That’s not to say that Wladimir didn’t used to be a good heavyweight. He a decent heavyweight during a weak period for the heavyweight division.
The division has recently gotten a lot better, and it’s pretty clear to me that the aging Wladimir is a relic from the past that doesn’t fit at the top of this division with the young lions that I rate as being better than him. Even some of the old lions like Luis Ortiz would likely make easy work of Wladimir.