Tyson Fury: “I’m going to win this fight one million per cent”

By Allan Fox: Tyson Fury claims that he’s got Saturday’s fight against Deontay Wilder in the bag, and that he’s “one million percent” sure that he’s going to defeat the unbeaten World Boxing Council heavyweight champion on Saturday night.

Fury is three days away from fighting arguably the biggest puncher in the heavyweight division in unbeaten Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Fury exudes confidence, as he always does, but he’s stepping into the unknown in facing a guy that is almost as tall as him in 6’7″ Wilder, but much faster and more powerful. Fury beat a powerful puncher three years ago in 6’6″ Wladimir Klitschko, but he was old, accuracy shot, and afraid to throw punches. Wladimir was the complete opposite of Wilder. The American isn’t afraid to throw punches, he’s decisive and willing accurate with his shots. Wladimir had lost his punch accuracy due to age several years before he fought Fury. By the time he stepped foot inside the ring to fight the British heavyweight, Wladimir only had his power left. Everything else from his offense was gone from the combination of age and the wear and tear from his years of fighting.

“I’m going to win this fight – one million per cent,” Fury said to skysports.com. “There is not a doubt in my mind. No matter what he brings on Saturday night I will over come him and win and take the WBC title back to the UK.”

The more Fury talks, the more PPV buys he’ll help generate on Showtime PPV. In the back of Fury’s mind, he likely has a lot of self doubt, and wonders whether he’ll be able to get the job done on Saturday night. If Fury is bluffing in order to try and psych out Wilder, it might not work. Wilder is well aware of the mental games that Fury used to disarm the mentally fragile Wladimir Klitschko three years ago in their fight in 2015. Wilder knows the limitations that Fury has in his game in the power department, so he’s not going to be afraid of his own shadow when he gets him inside the ring. Wilder knows there’s nothing to fear but fear itself.

If Wilder fails to fight at his full potential, Fury is going to take his WBC heavyweight title, and he’ll take it back to the UK to parade it around like he did with the IBF, IBO, WBA and WBO titles he won off Klitschko in 2015. Those were great trophies that Fury briefly had in his possession, but unfortunately they ended up just collecting dust without him ever defending them.

Boxing fans are eager to know what Fury’s weight is going to be on Saturday He’s not saying about it, but Fury looks like hes a lot of weight. You can see that Fury’s muscles are smaller, his face emaciated slightly and his eyes looking like a person that has been starving himself. Fury looks like someone that hasn’t had enough calories for long period of time. That’s understandable though, as he started training at over 390 lbs, and he’s lost at least 140 lbs since he started his comeback. That’s an outrageous amount of weight for a fighter to lose. There’s no one that this writer can remember that has lost that kind of weight and been able to come back to thrive against the very best. George Foreman lost approximately 100 pounds in going from 350 lbs to 250 for his comeback in the late 1980s, but he didn’t lose the kind of weight that Fury has lost. Foreman only trimmed off 100 lbs, and he was carrying around a lot of fat in weighing in the 250s for most of his comeback. Foreman never fought any of the dangerous guys when he did come back. He didn’t fight Mike Tyson or Lennox Lewis. He didn’t even fight Larry Holmes, who was passed his prime but still a very good fighter at that point. Fury is coming back to fight one of the best heavyweights in the world in Deontay Wilder, and he’s taken off a massive amount of weight to make the fight possible.

“I don’t really have a weight goal, but I’ve worked very hard and I’m as heavy as I have been in most of my fights,” Fury said. “I was 257 pounds on the nail this morning.”

Fury might be on the level about him weighing 257 lbs. That was his weight more or less through most of his career. Even if that is his weight for this fight, hes still taken off a huge amount of weight to fight a guy that would have been a problem three years ago when he was at his best. If Wilder pushes a fast pace, we could see Fury pinned against the ropes like he was against Francesco Pianeta.