Fury: What The Boxers Said After The Heavyweight Title Fight

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British boxer Tyson Fury has been crowned new world heavyweight champion after a unanimous points win over Wladimir Klitschko.

Fury now holds the WBO, IBF, WBU and IBO world boxing titles even though the fight was less a spectacle than many expected.

“He will dominate it for as long he wants, but I don’t think he is going to want to box for another 20 years”.

The 39-year-old Ukrainian suffered his fourth career loss and first in 11 years with 27-year-old Fury outpunching a tired-looking Klitschko over 12 rounds in front of a crowd of 50,000 at the Esprit Arena. The title defender never gained a foothold into the fight although he got more active in the last three rounds.

“The speed was missing, for a big man he is incredibly agile”. “The mind always plays a big role in sport and we worked very hard for this”.

Fury’s advisor Asif Vali doubts a rematch will happen as he expects Klitschko to retire, but Hennessy is confident the Manchester fighter will triumph once again if the rematch clause, which he says he had no hesitation in agreeing to, is activated. Fury, who weighed in at 112 kilograms (247 pounds) also had half-kilo (1.1 pound) weight advantage.

The new champion celebrated his victory by singing Aerosmith’s Don’t Want to Miss a Thing, which he dedicated to his wife, Paris. “It was all fun and games in the buildup”.

Fury replied at a press conference: “Why do we need to mention Deontay Wilder?”.

Fury, fortunately, went on to send Swaby to the canvas in the same round.

“Tyson really stepped on the gas”, said a disappointed Klitschko, fighting in front of a home crowd with his base in Germany.

“I felt a lot more love from them (his fans) then I felt for him (Klitschko) from his”, added the underdog, who shed 32kg in five months to get into shape for the fight.

He kept landing left-right combinations with Klitschko, not used to fighting taller men than him, struggling with Fury’s reach. Fury landed 86 of 371 punches while Klitschko landed just 52 of 231.

“Few had given underdog Fury much hope of dethroning Klitschko in Saturday night’s bout in Dusseldorf, Germany, but he confounded the experts with a polished and nerveless performance”.

“The belts are heading to Britain-Tyson has beaten the odds and defied the doubters”, wrote the Mirror’s Joshua Evans.