Wlad-Fury presser

[palooka]

Fighting jeans, trainers and tee shirt - Fury has got this fight sewn up.

[Bard of Boxrec]

Haha, love Fury. He's such an oaf, and something about his intonation is hilarious.

[crusader]

Couple more:


"You have grey hair like my trainer and manager. You're an old man. Wouldn't surprise me if you used botox."


"This Klit is getting licked on the 24th. Boom."

I guess grey hair is better than no hair.

[reggaereggae]

Doesn't look like 6' 9" vs. 6' 6" there.

Fury's shtick at the press conference was a lot more entertaining than anything Haye managed.

Despite his jibes, Fury actually looks older than Wlad.....

[Maxsplit]

Whether it is 6'8.25 or 6'7.75 vs Klitschko's 6'6 ...he is the naturally bigger man.

I think Wladimir will be slowly busted up in a boring fight. IMO.

[crusader]

Slightly taller and a longer reach (I'm several inches taller than David Tua and have a much longer reach but I never fought above middleweight), though he seems to have relatively thin limbs and at 248 against Johnson was carrying noticeably more pudge than Wlad was at 249 against Thompson.

For me a big question is if the cute skills that Fury's shown largely against short, one-dimensional straight ahead plodders without much pop are going to show up against by far the best overall opponent of his career, by far the biggest puncher of his career, and the only decent fighter he's faced that is over 6'3". Since Fury has shown notable skill against a very narrow range of opponents and failed to show it when he was in with Cunningham, who is small and probably wouldn't win a round against Wlad but at least has some speed, skill, and ambition, I'm skeptical about his ability to outbox from range a long-time champion who has never been outboxed over the course of a fight. Fury clearly has an edge on the inside, but I see a fair bit of talk of him besting Wlad from distance and I'm not sure he can do that for long.

Now Wlad hasn't fought someone exactly like Fury either, but he's been in with a much greater range of styles, sizes, and abilities.