Tyson Fury "After Sautrday I will be Britain's no.1"
Posted: 20 Jul 2011, 16:54
TYSON FURY 14-0 (10 KO’s) spoke exclusively to UNDISPUTED at a media work-out at the Crown Moran Hotel in north London claiming he is ready for Wladimir Klitschko after he takes the British heavyweight number one status off Dereck Chisora 14-0 (9).
Fury who takes on the fellow-undefeated Brit on Saturday night at Wembley Arena live on Channel Five believes that the fight will be the making of him.
The Manchester-born boxer will then be switching his sights to Wladimir Klitschko, Fury said, “I would like to get the Klitschko fight on if he wants a piece of me, there may be others in between we will see. I am ready to fight anyone in the world right now, I am in fantastic shape. I am mentally prepared for anybody. I am 23, young and I am ambitious.”
But before that Fury will need to go through the current British and Commonwealth heavyweight title holder who he believes is number one in Britain until Saturday, “I agree with him. He is number one, he is the British and Commonwealth champion at the minute, you got David Haye but he has just lost the world title. Take him out the equasion and Chisora is the number one, he is the only champion. Well until Saturday night when I relieve him of them two titles. If Dereck Chisora didn’t fight me I am sure he will be going for a world title, but considering he has to, he is in my way I will be taking them off him it’s just one of them things. You win some, you lose some in boxing. Unfortunately on this night he is going to lose.”
Boxing will be making a long-overdue return to terrestrial TV on Channel Five and Fury is delighted at the opportunity, “It’s a really big thing to be fighting on terrestrial TV and I really appreciate that Channel Five have actually come up and said they are going to put this on TV. A really big clap for them guys.
I am really looking forward to this fight more than I have any other fight in my life, obviously it’s going to be the making or breaking of us, we are both undefeated, both ambitious so it’s going to be a real fight, I can’t wait.”
A relaxed and confident Fury arrived at the hotel in a horse and cart with a megaphone calling for Chisora to show himself and to turn up on Saturday, the 23-year-old believes this fight couldn’t come at a better time, “This is my moment, my moment to shine and the moment I have worked towards in life. I am in the best shape I have ever been in. I am as fit as I have ever been, mentally strong and confident. I am in the right place, I am where I need to be.”
The grudge match billed “The Big Brawl” has been long overdue according to Fury, “He used to sit at ringside when I first turned pro. He watched my fights and used to say to everyone I was crap, no good and all that. I have called him out to fight, I have wanted to fight him ever since my first two fights, him and (Sam) Sexton but neither wanted to know.
It has been a long time coming, he then was talking about me in the press and I was talking about him. I confronted him at the 02 Arena (London) about it, to ask ‘what’s been going on?’ because if I had something to say I would say it to his face. He isn’t like that though and would rather say it behind my back. It’s all just going to make this such a nice victory when I beat him on Saturday night.”
When talking about the controversial comments made last week during a telephone conference call the Great Britain and Ireland representative held his hands up, “When I am right I will say I am right. When I am wrong I will say I am wrong. I never meant it in the way it’s been interpreted but that doesn’t take away the fact I shouldn’t have said it. It was just a bit of slang I use, I didn’t mean I actually intended to. In a football match if my team got beat I would say they got ‘killed’. But yeah it was wrong.”
A laid-back Fury went through a comfortable work-out, confidence is sky high in his camp and on Saturday you will see why, says the Cheshire-based fighter, “It is going to be a knockout I wouldn’t like to put a round number on it but there will be a stoppage.”
Whether there could be any legs in talk of an unlikely meeting with David Haye, the British heavyweight believes the former-WBA champion will be heading for the U.S, “I think Haye is thinking about going over to America, but I don’t see why he has to go to the U.S because you have got me here you have got Chisora, David Price, Tom Dallas and John McDermott, there are plenty of heavyweights here you can even throw Audley Harrison into that mix.
I don’t think he needs to leave the British shores if I am honest. At the minute we have got the best heavyweights whoever wins out of all us prospects will be going on to fight Wladimir and having a good chance of beating him. It’s exciting times and I believe after this there will be a super fight between me and David Price down the line, watch out for that.”
After Chisora, the big fight Tyson wants is Klitschko and he is prepared to fight the unified world champion anywhere but warns he won’t wait around for the chance, “Whether the Klitschko fight comes before Price is to be seen but that’s what we are going to be pushing for, Mick (promoter Mick Hennessey) wants it and I am ready. I don’t want to be waiting around like Chisora, inactive for a year. I want to keep busy, busy, busy. Then when we get it wherever it is I will be ready in that ring, whether it is in Ireland, Germany, Manchester, we will be there and I will win.”
One unbeaten record will be lost on Saturday night and a very confident Fury believes the “Big Brawl to Settle It All” will just be the start of his long and successful career.
Interview from Greg Grims of Undisputed Fight Magazine. Subscribe now, free, for the first three months
Fury who takes on the fellow-undefeated Brit on Saturday night at Wembley Arena live on Channel Five believes that the fight will be the making of him.
The Manchester-born boxer will then be switching his sights to Wladimir Klitschko, Fury said, “I would like to get the Klitschko fight on if he wants a piece of me, there may be others in between we will see. I am ready to fight anyone in the world right now, I am in fantastic shape. I am mentally prepared for anybody. I am 23, young and I am ambitious.”
But before that Fury will need to go through the current British and Commonwealth heavyweight title holder who he believes is number one in Britain until Saturday, “I agree with him. He is number one, he is the British and Commonwealth champion at the minute, you got David Haye but he has just lost the world title. Take him out the equasion and Chisora is the number one, he is the only champion. Well until Saturday night when I relieve him of them two titles. If Dereck Chisora didn’t fight me I am sure he will be going for a world title, but considering he has to, he is in my way I will be taking them off him it’s just one of them things. You win some, you lose some in boxing. Unfortunately on this night he is going to lose.”
Boxing will be making a long-overdue return to terrestrial TV on Channel Five and Fury is delighted at the opportunity, “It’s a really big thing to be fighting on terrestrial TV and I really appreciate that Channel Five have actually come up and said they are going to put this on TV. A really big clap for them guys.
I am really looking forward to this fight more than I have any other fight in my life, obviously it’s going to be the making or breaking of us, we are both undefeated, both ambitious so it’s going to be a real fight, I can’t wait.”
A relaxed and confident Fury arrived at the hotel in a horse and cart with a megaphone calling for Chisora to show himself and to turn up on Saturday, the 23-year-old believes this fight couldn’t come at a better time, “This is my moment, my moment to shine and the moment I have worked towards in life. I am in the best shape I have ever been in. I am as fit as I have ever been, mentally strong and confident. I am in the right place, I am where I need to be.”
The grudge match billed “The Big Brawl” has been long overdue according to Fury, “He used to sit at ringside when I first turned pro. He watched my fights and used to say to everyone I was crap, no good and all that. I have called him out to fight, I have wanted to fight him ever since my first two fights, him and (Sam) Sexton but neither wanted to know.
It has been a long time coming, he then was talking about me in the press and I was talking about him. I confronted him at the 02 Arena (London) about it, to ask ‘what’s been going on?’ because if I had something to say I would say it to his face. He isn’t like that though and would rather say it behind my back. It’s all just going to make this such a nice victory when I beat him on Saturday night.”
When talking about the controversial comments made last week during a telephone conference call the Great Britain and Ireland representative held his hands up, “When I am right I will say I am right. When I am wrong I will say I am wrong. I never meant it in the way it’s been interpreted but that doesn’t take away the fact I shouldn’t have said it. It was just a bit of slang I use, I didn’t mean I actually intended to. In a football match if my team got beat I would say they got ‘killed’. But yeah it was wrong.”
A laid-back Fury went through a comfortable work-out, confidence is sky high in his camp and on Saturday you will see why, says the Cheshire-based fighter, “It is going to be a knockout I wouldn’t like to put a round number on it but there will be a stoppage.”
Whether there could be any legs in talk of an unlikely meeting with David Haye, the British heavyweight believes the former-WBA champion will be heading for the U.S, “I think Haye is thinking about going over to America, but I don’t see why he has to go to the U.S because you have got me here you have got Chisora, David Price, Tom Dallas and John McDermott, there are plenty of heavyweights here you can even throw Audley Harrison into that mix.
I don’t think he needs to leave the British shores if I am honest. At the minute we have got the best heavyweights whoever wins out of all us prospects will be going on to fight Wladimir and having a good chance of beating him. It’s exciting times and I believe after this there will be a super fight between me and David Price down the line, watch out for that.”
After Chisora, the big fight Tyson wants is Klitschko and he is prepared to fight the unified world champion anywhere but warns he won’t wait around for the chance, “Whether the Klitschko fight comes before Price is to be seen but that’s what we are going to be pushing for, Mick (promoter Mick Hennessey) wants it and I am ready. I don’t want to be waiting around like Chisora, inactive for a year. I want to keep busy, busy, busy. Then when we get it wherever it is I will be ready in that ring, whether it is in Ireland, Germany, Manchester, we will be there and I will win.”
One unbeaten record will be lost on Saturday night and a very confident Fury believes the “Big Brawl to Settle It All” will just be the start of his long and successful career.
Interview from Greg Grims of Undisputed Fight Magazine. Subscribe now, free, for the first three months