Quick, despite his 2.06 metres, the 27-year-old contender was better from the start, landing left-right combinations with Klitschko, not used to fighting taller men than him, struggling with Fury’s reach.
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Only seven Britons had previously been world heavyweight champions: Bob Fitzimmons (1897-99), Michael Bentt (1993-94), Herbie Hide (1994-95 & 1997-99), Frank Bruno (1995-96), Henry Akinwande (1996-97), Lennox Lewis (1993-94, 1997-2001, 2001-2003) and David Haye (2009). I wish I could have landed more clean shots but I couldn’t work out the distance properly. It’s going to happen, but it’s worth wondering if Klitschko, who turns 40 in March, can really do anything differently, or if Fury is just a awful matchup and a fighter who makes him too uncomfortable to pull the trigger.
“From the first moment I laced on a pair of boxing gloves, there wasn’t one person in my family who didn’t believe I wasn’t going to be the heavyweight champion of the world”, continued Fury.
Born three months early and weighing just 0.45 kg, Fury was not given much chance to live, but John Fury told doctors it was his destiny to live and become heavyweight champion of the world.
After ending Klitschko’s almost 10-year reign as heavyweight champion, Fury, who stands six-foot-nine, chose to serenade his wife from the centre of the ring.
Fury has no shortage of options for his next fight, with WBC champion Deontay Wilder already calling for a unification bout on Twitter.
Klitschko wants to look at what went wrong in Dusseldorf after one of the poorest displays of his career.
“Tyson couldn’t do all he wanted to because of Wlad, but I do think the outcome will be the same because I do think Tyson can raise his game.
I knew I could come here and upset the apple cart”. I’ve been doing it all my life.
“I frustrated him, showboated and showed him stuff he’d never seen”.
Fury will cash in on the victory regardless of the fight purse having bet £200,000 ($300,630) on himself.
Klitschko, 39, finished with cuts to both cheeks while Fury was unmarked. It has not come easily.
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Mancunian Fury, a 4/1 underdog, baffled Klitschko with a stylish, measured performance in which he utilised his height and youth perfectly to earn a superb win with scores of 115-112 twice and 116-111 despite being deducted a point for fouling.
