After months of antics, puffed up trash talk, and guarantees, Great Britain’s hulking challenger Tyson Fury will at last enter the ring against heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko for Saturday’s title fight at the Espirit Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany. This is a boxing contest not a bodybuilding one but the difference between the two physiques was striking.
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“Wild” Webb has finished all three of his opponents within the first two minutes of competition and has quickly raced to 16th position in the British rankings, hot on the heels of world title challenger, Fury.
Klitschko had been expected to be leaner and lighter than usual for this bout but will actually be more than four pounds heavier than in his last fight against Bryant Jennings. He’s a 40-year-old woman full of make-up from half a mile away.
“It’s just another fight for me”. Here a look at the odds and viewing info for the bout.
Around 2005, after he had been champion for a few years, still-skeptical American boxing writers likened Klitschko to the steroid-pumped brute Drago, played by Dolph Lundgren in Rocky IV.
Will Fury be able to counter Klitschko’s jab?
But the odds makers are not discouraging Fury who realises the “fantastic opportunity” before him and believes it is his destiny to be victorious and predicts he will upset the bookies and knock Klitschko out. Who are you picking in Klitschko vs Fury?
Klitschko will be waiting for Tyson to expend energy and invest his hands in getting close to the champ, leaving him open for Klitschko to start landing power punches when it suits him.
“A clear victory by knockout is better than on points because then there would be other questions we don’t want to hear”.
After concerns about Tyson Fury’s gloves at the pre-fight news conference, Klitschko’s manager Bernd Bonte says that they will arrive before Friday’s weigh-in. “I’ll put him to bed in the sixth round”.
“We’ve done the best we could possibly do, we know what we’re up against in Kiltschko – he’s a formidable champion, and we’ve prepared for everything he’s going to bring so we’re more than happy to be ice cold, get on with the job, be professional, do what needs to be done and get it done right”.
Fury can also box southpaw as well as orthodox, on the front foot and back, which gives him yet more options. You reach the stage when you can’t just jump out bed and flog yourself.
Fury baulked at Klitschko’s description of his ego.
Some might not see Fury as a formidable challenger to Klitschko here, but the fact of the matter is that in 24 fights, he’s recorded 18 knockouts.
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“But if I’m daft enough to get caught and chinned by Wladimir, then I deserve it, don’t I?” Klitschko likes to control a fight with his ramrod jab, thrust time and time again in his opponent’s face like a bullfighter’s lance, until they are slowed and he can move in for the kill.
