By Ray Wheatley – World of Boxing
John Fury, the outspoken father of WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, says former champion Deontay Wilder should steer clear of his son. “I can’t blame him for that. It’s all about the money,” John Fury told IFL TV. “But I don’t know what he’s going to do with Tyson because Tyson is only getting better. Get your team around you and tell them to start using their brains. Forget Tyson, forget the Tyson Furys of the world. He’s too good for you. He’s proved that. You couldn’t beat him when he’d lost 10 stone. He got up from your best shots. That was enough to tell you that the rematch should never have been anyway.
The elder Fury advises Wilder to fight WBA, IBF, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua instead. “Get after Joshua and you’ll probably get all the other belts back off him. There’s plenty of other people out there. Concentrate on them. If you mess with my son, there’s only one place you’re going. The hospital. For a long time, so forget that one.
“Deontay Wilder is an incredible fighter. He’s got the knockout power. Let me tell you, any lesser man than Tyson Fury is not beating Deontay Wilder. Tyson is #1. Wilder is definitely #2.”
Tyson Fury could possibly retire as the only other Heavy without a defeat like The Rock!
Maybe, but I seriously doubt he gets anywhere near 49 wins, and even though he’s undefeated, he does have a draw which Marciano didn’t have. He’s putting together a nice resume though. Wins over future HOF’er Klitschko, and Wilder who was undefeated with 40+ wins…
yeah but he wont retire as the greatest and at least the Rock fought more credible names.
Did John Fury jus tell Wilders team to start using their brains??? Lmao. As much as i agree with that, Fury’s father shld do the same. One minute he said go Tyson, be the champ. The next minute he is saying his son shld retire. Now, he wants his son to go after Joshua. Ummmm Bipolar much??? Pick a story my guy and stick to it lmao
Tony, yes, good statements. I am entertained with the hypocritical non-directional comments as well. July 18th is the fight date based off other websites in the boxing mix. John Fury has a little bit of time to tell his son what to do before the next bell rings.
He says he wants Wilder to go after Joshua, can you read?
Yup, I can read, can you?
He’s telling Wilder to go after Joshua. Read the headline, or any part of the story. Clear as day mate.
Yes, I am fully aware of the article says. In between the lines of the article, is it safe to say John Fury still has the concern of safety in the ring for his son over Wilder’s off-the-wall power? Yes, us keyboard warriors think Wilder is done and a nobody due to one defeat. Anything is possible in boxing and Wilder may re-group and Fury may get distracted in life since the last fight. Who knows! John Fury has enough time by July 18th to convince his son of alternatives in this boxing venue and which path to take. John Fury may act like the business guy with this advice, but it’s about safety and longevity of his son’s life/legacy in my opinion. Win, lose, or draw for Wilder, a third fight is and must be observed based off legal contractual agreements.
Ummmmm, illiterate much?
John Fury literally said that Wilder should go after Joshua, not his son go after Joshua. I guess people like you don’t get embarrassed and just have verbal diarrhea without editing or proofreading your post before hitting the send button.
Shame
STFU idiot. Mind your fucking business and let your son win that easy money again.
AJ would have nothing to gain from fighting Wilder at this point.
If he beat Wilder folk would say it was Fury’s leftovers and if he lost…..
If I was Wilder I’d try and come up with a deal whereby he takes step aside money with the proviso that he fights the AJ/Fury winner (presuming that happens). If it can be done (and the GBs may be unwilling to accommodate this) then Wilder could probably have 2 warm up fightsin between.
If he agrees to sep aside, then Fury vs AJ does not transpire, he has already forfitted his mandatory rematch clause. It could be used against Wilder as a bait and switch to get him to abandon his rematch rights.
I think is tome to stop paying attention to this wanker. The whole point is that he is afraid of his son facing Anthony Joshua. I am sure Tyson Fury is not afraid of that and this is the fight that has a truly meaning now. Wilder vs. Joshua is not longer the mega fight once was (both not longer undefetead and exposed) now is just merely an attractive fight.And Wilder vs. Fury III somenthing very predictable that could be a mismatch.
Let your son speak what he wants you idiot.
The best thing about a Wilder vs Joshua fight is it wont all be about race – White vs Black. The so called patriots can finally get behind their home country man and not sell the home fighter out, based on color. US has shamefully been bitter about their American Heavyweight champ for a good while. They rather the title go overseas, as long as its “Right”.Boxing has the worst fans in all of sports. Even Joe Louis received better support against Max Schmeling, during times when race relations were strained. Perhaps, things had gotten no better.
After Max Schmeling survived his defeat, he had to deal with Adolf Hitler heading back home. After he survived Hitler’s punishment by being stuck in tough conditions of war, he became successful in life by being head of Coca-Cola in Germany. Yes, in all the irony, Louis beat Schmeling and made him look bad as a fighter (at that time). However, Louis was troubled by hard financial times after boxing while Schmeling prospered thru a soda pop company.
Has it even occured to you that people, no matter their skin color or nationality, may simply not like Wilder?
I mean, he’s just a one-dimensional fighter who likes to talk trash god dammit!
Trash talking is part of the act for business in boxing. Trash talking is about selling your fights, building confidence, and making certain people not like you so you tune in to see them get get beat. Yep, par for the course in boxing.
Wilder may be a one-dimensional fighter, but he made a lot of money doing it, lasted a while doing it, and his checkbook is much larger than mine. Where can I sign up (snicker)?
Keeping that racism alive like a good little leftist aren’t you?
This is coming from the guy who told his son he would wind up in a wheelchair before he fought Wilder the first time.
love the fathers comments last week he said for him to retire now all this rubbish what a tosser
Will Tyson Fury’s new style have the same results against Anthony Joshua? He might need to use different strategy?
My biggest question is about Fury is…Can he stay focused long enough to keep on this strategy? We know in the past Fury has had bumps in the road with a lot of distractions and his winning streak performances have been “all over” the board being graded as great, fair, stagnant, and simply “ok”. Yes, winning is winning, but we all know he unpredictable in performances.
He is right
If I were Wilder’s team, I’d take some money to step aside and arrange a tune-up fight to get my fighter back on track.
Some folks will say that like they did passing on advice about Anthony Joshua in his Ruiz rematch. Joshua defied the odds and proved us key board warriors wrong and won in a immediate rematch with no tune up. Unfortunately, we don’t know all the hidden information going in Wilder camp and maybe what the majority may seek to do, is not what everyone has to do.
There’s no doubt Fury is the better boxer, but to me Wilder was off from the start, not his usual wild aggressive style. I expect a much better performance in the rematch.
@Q, nah, Wilder looked like a beginner in the first fight outside the 2 knockdowns. The second fight when fury was fully prepared Wilder was walked down and completely mauled at his own game. Then he went on to say a 45lb suit defeated(instead of the 273 lb. Man that actually did). 8 months ago he told Joe Rogan he trains daily with a 45lb vest! 2 fights wilder was completely outpointed in one and outpointed, walked down and mauled in the second. Wilder has no real boxing talent and I think fury has psychologically broken him. IF he really does fight Fury again it will very likely be just as bad as the second fight.. If not worse.
It’s simple, if Wilders boxing doesn’t improve which I doubt will, there is no way he can beat a master boxer puncher like Fury.
Sounds like a warning to me. “Stay away from us. Or get stretched.”
The patronization of Deontay Wilder can only go so far.