Fury/Wilder Trilogy
#41
Wilder-Fury II full undercard announced

A lineup of rising prospects will enter the ring in undercard action leading up to the PPV rematch between unbeaten WBC heavyweight world champion Deontay “The Bronze Bomber” Wilder and former champion Tyson “The Gypsy King” Fury on February 22 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

The prelims will feature super lightweight Subriel Matias (15-0, 15 KOs) against Petros Ananyan (14-2-2, 7 KOs), super lightweight contender Amir Imam (22-2, 19 KOs) taking on Javier Molina (21-2, 9 KOs), and in a pair of lightweight eight-rounders, its Rolando Romero (10-0, 9 KOs) against Arturs Ahmetovs (5-0, 2 KOs) and Gabriel Flores Jr. (16-0, 6 KOs) against Matt Conway (17-1, 7 KOs).

Rounding out the card is welterweight Vito Mielnicki Jr. (4-0, 3 KOs) against Corey Champion (1-2, 1 KO) in a four-round attraction, and unbeaten featherweight Isaac Lowe (19-0-3, 6 KOs) squaring off against Alberto Guevara (27-5, 12 KOs).

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The Wilder-Fury PPV fights feature former heavyweight champion Charles Martin against Gerald “El Gallo Negro” Washington, WBO junior featherweight world champion Emanuel “Vaquero” Navarrete against Jeo Santisima, and super welterweight Sebastian “The Towering Inferno” Fundora against 2016 Olympian Daniel Lewis.
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#42
Fury Plans To Weigh About 270 Pounds For Rematch With Wilder
By Keith Idec Published On Thu Feb 6, 2020, 01:37 PM EST
Deontay Wilder isn’t the only one preparing to come in heavier for his rematch versus Tyson Fury.

The brash British heavyweight revealed during a radio interview Wednesday on ESPN New York (98.7 FM) that he weighs 270 pounds and plans to enter the ring at about that same weight for his second fight with Wilder. Fury weighed in at 256½ pounds for his 12-round split draw with Wilder in December 2018 and hasn’t weighed in above 263½ pounds for any of his past four fights.

England’s Fury infamously ballooned to nearly 400 pounds during the tumultuous time he spent away from boxing following his upset of Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015. The 6-feet-9 Fury weighed in at 276 pounds when he ended a 2½-year layoff against Sefer Seferi in June 2018, but he dropped 20 more pounds by the time he challenged Wilder for the WBC heavyweight title 14 months ago at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Now, however, Fury (29-0-1, 20 KOs) is convinced that heavier is better for his rematch with Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KOs) on February 22 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. He explained to ESPN New York co-hosts Alan Hahn and Bart Scott during their interview that his new nutritionist, diet guru George Lockhart, is feeding him between five and six times per day, accounting for a combined 5,000 to 6,000 calories.

“I haven’t really put weight on on purpose,” Fury said. “I’ve just been eating plenty of food. It’s natural weight. You know, I’m at me natural weight now, where before I’d be dieting to get down, down, down, get down to like 255, 252. And I’d be eating less and eating hardly nothing for a man of my size. George has come in and put me on like 5 or 6,000 calories per day. I’m now my natural weight. I’ve been training, I’ll be over 10 weeks [in camp] by the time the fight comes around, so I’m very fully prepared and very hydrated and whatever I weigh in now is what I’m naturally at. And for a heavyweight, it’s all about performance.

“It’s not about aesthetics and the way you look, because some of these heavyweights are built very awkwardly and fat and chubby and short and thin, or tall and skinny. It doesn’t really matter what a heavyweight looks like. It’s about performing on the night, so if 270 is my weight that I come in at, then that’s what I’ll be weighing and I’ll comfortable because I’ve been doing all me work, me sparring, me bag work, me pad work, me running. It’s all been at that high weight. So, I’ll be well used to the weight by the time it comes around. And it’s a little more imposing as well when I get on the scale [at] 270. He knows he’s gotta push now and shove. It’s hard to keep a man 270 off.”

The 31-year-old Fury weighed in at 254½ pounds for his last fight, a 12-round, unanimous-decision win over Otto Wallin on September 14 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Wilder, meanwhile, wants to weigh at least in the low-220s when he faces Fury for the second time.

The 6-feet-7 Wilder weighed in at only 212½ pounds, his lowest weight in 10 years, the day before he floored Fury twice. The 34-year-old Wilder has said he was down to approximately 209 pounds by the time he walked into the ring that night.

Even if Alabama’s Wilder weighs in the mid-220s for their rematch, a 270-pound Fury would out-weigh Wilder by about the same amount this time as he did for their first fight (44 pounds).

“I’m eating five, six meals per day at the minute,” Fury said. “So yeah, it’s been really good. I’ve got George Lockhart on board and he has really opened my eyes to the nutritional world and how much it takes to eat and drink and that sort of stuff. Before, I was like an old-school fighter. I’d eat and drink when I felt hungry or thirsty, and that’s how I did it for years. But now there’s a little more science to it, got quite a few more guys who know a bit more than me about it. And yeah, it’s easy working in training camp, feeling well. I’m nice and heavy, 270 pounds. I’m 270, solid as a rock.”
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#43
https://www.boxing247.com/boxing-news/mike-tyson-always-could-sell-a-fight-wilder-fury-ii-promo-shows-he-still-can/142942
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#44
Luis Ortiz’s trainer WARNS Fury about what NOT to do against Wilder
Andy Brooks - February 10, 2020

Luis Ortiz’s trainer Herman Caicedo believes Tyson Fury is going down the wrong path with his talks of wanting to try and walk Deontay Wilder down in hopes of stopping him in their rematch on February 22 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Caicedo thinks the 6’9″ Fury (29-0-1, 20 KOs) will run into something from Wilder, and end up getting knocked out himself if he tries to look for a KO against.

As it is, Caicedo sees Wilder bullying Fury, and knocking him out between the 8th and 12th rounds. But Fury will make it easier on WBC heavyweight champion Wilder (42-0-1, 41 KOs) if he tries to land his own power shots in the fight.

The best strategy for Fury would be for him to box Wilder like he did in their first fight in 2018, and hope he doesn’t land that right hand, which Caicedo thinks is impossible. It’s not just Wilder’s right hand that worries Caicedo for this fight. Wilder’s left hand is dangerous as well, says Caicedo.

Caicedo: It’s impossible to keep Wilder from landing right hand
“Wilder is a phenomenal puncher, and is the hardest puncher in the heavyweight division, because Luis [Ortiz] has a great chin,” said Ortiz’s trainer Herman Caicedo to Fighthype. “It’s not that Luis doesn’t have a great chin. He’s [Wilder] got 42 fights and 41 knockouts, so he’s proved that he’s a big puncher.

“It’s very difficult. We’ve got to stay away from one punch, the right hand, and it seems easy to do,” said Caicedo when asked how Fury can avoid getting hit by Wilder’s right hand bombs. “But when you’re only trying to stay away from one right hand, as Luis was game planned to do, you sometimes lose track of it.

“I think it’s almost impossible. It might have been better to not even worry about the right hand,” said Caicedo about trying to avoid getting hit by Wilder. “I doubt it because that’s what our game plan was in the first fight obviously. Luis was a little more looser.

“It’s hard [to keep from getting hit by Wilder’s right hand]. Unless someone is 7-foot tall with a big, big punch and a great fighter,” added Caicedo on Fury’s chances of avoiding Wilder’s right hand for the entire fight.

Fury will obviously be moving his head and upper body all night, trying to dodge Wilder’s shots. Wilder has already said that if Fury uses a lot of movement with his upper body, he’s going to hit him in the belly with his best right hand, and see how he takes it down there. It’s hard to brace for body shots when a fighter is leaning backwards or to the sides.

If Wilder chooses to go to the body early, he could force Fury to use less upper body movement in order to protect his vulnerable midsection, which he often neglects in his fights. Fury gets away with this because most heavyweights are strictly headhunters.

They forget about the body entirely. Of the fighters Fury has fought in his career, only Otto Wallin targeted his midsection, and he had a lot of success in taking away his movement with those shots

“If Fury had a big punch, he’d have a much better shot at knocking Wilder out,” said Caicedo. “Yeah, he’s going to bully him now, you know what I mean?” said Caicedo when asked if Wilder will beat Fury in the rematch. “He didn’t do it in the first fight out of respect. I think he does much better in rematches.

“All the credit to Luis in the rematch for making it difficult for Wilder not to set-up his shot, but he was looking for that shot the entire night,” said Caicedo. “He [Wilder] was setting it up. He was trying to set it up the entire night, and it was a chess-match. So checkmate, that’s exactly what happened.

“With Fury and Wilder? I think Wilder is probably going to knock him out from rounds 8 to 12,” said Caicedo. ”

It’s pretty obvious that Wilder will walk Fury down, and a lot calmer in doing so than in the first fight. Wilder looked stressed with all the constant taunting from Fury in the first fight, and he wasted a lot of energy by throwing wild right hands meant to take his head off.

Wilder now seems to be a lot more comfortable with how Fury fights, so he’s going to be more methodical in the rematch. Fury will need to think of something else he can do to try and win the fight other than taunting Wilder, and trying to impress judges with those tactics.

Above all, Fury has to throw meaningful punches this time, and not just rely on the weak triple jabs that he used to win rounds in the first fight. If Wilder is the only one landing shots that have power on them, Fury could lose a lot of rounds this time, and find himself in a situation where he needs a knockout, not Wilder in the later rounds.

Caicedo warns Fury not to try and KO Wilder
“He’s in a lot of trouble because he’s going to run into a right hand or a left hook,” said Caicedo when told that Fury is saying that he’s going to walk Wilder down and try and knock him out. “He’s in a lot of trouble if he does that.

“I don’t think that you beat Deontay that way.
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#45
Just smoke and mirrors from Fury no way is he going all out for a KO, he will box herky jerky style and try frustrate Wilder in the hope Wilder won't be able to land a bomb
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#46
(02-11-2020, 09:32 PM)bart Wrote: Just smoke and mirrors from Fury no way is he going all out for a KO, he will box herky jerky style and try frustrate Wilder in the hope Wilder won't be able to land a bomb

I hope so, his supposed weight gain worries me 
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#47
Don't believe anything to weigh in and fight
Furey is a master head fecker
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#48
Wilder-Fury a pick’em fight

Current odds on the next week’s mega Wilder-Fury PPV rematch in Las Vegas are dead even at -110 for both fighters according to the MGM Sportsbook. The over/under is eleven rounds. Over is -115, under is -105.

Wilder by decision is 7:1
Wilder by KO is 8:5
Fury by decision is 7:5
Fury by KO is 5:1
A draw is 18:1
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#49
Interesting that the NZ TAB has it at $1.83 v $1.83 head-to-head. Fury was favourite when I looked a day or two ago. May have been something like Fury $1.75 v Wilder $1.86 from memory.

Deontay Wilder Points or Decision $10.00
Deontay Wilder KO/TKO $2.20
Tyson Fury Points or Decision $2.70
Tyson Fury KO/TKO $5.50
Draw $23

They have other options and by the round also
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#50
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/combat-sports/119478405/deontay-wilder-smells-blood-in-tyson-fury-heavyweight-boxing-sequel
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