Tyson Fury upsets Wladimir Klitschko to win heavyweight championship

The 39-year-old Klitschko had reigned for 9 ½ years since beating Chris Byrd for the IBF belt in Mannheim in 2006.

The new WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world heavyweight champion said: “He’s been a great champion but every good dog has its day”.

Mick Hennessy thinks Wladimir Klitschko won’t fancy a rematch against Tyson Fury after the Manchester fighter won his world heavyweight titles.

He looks set to have to repeat the feat in his next fight, however, with Klitschko having the option of a rematch if he feels he can reverse the result.

But on Sunday (AEDT), Fury – who now stands 206cm tall and weighs in at 112kg – pulled off one of the biggest boxing shocks of recent memory, when he dethroned long-time champ Wladimir Klitschko to win the heavyweight championship of the world. Klitschko hadn’t been beaten in eleven years and was second only to Joe Louis in the list of all time longest ever reigning world heavyweight champions.

As the fight went on, it was Klitschko’s face that became bloodied and Fury felt confident enough to start landing combinations. “Everybody wrote us off, said we had no chance… we all believed we could do it, we came here and we done it”. “It is still early and I have to process things but there will definitely be a rematch”.

Mancunian Fury, a 4/1 underdog, baffled Klitschko with a stylish, measured performance in which he utilised his height and youth perfectly to earn a superb win with scores of 115-112 twice and 116-111 despite being deducted a point for fouling.

Fury said on BBC 5 Live: ‘I always said what I’d do and I’ve delivered tonight. I want to be a great champion and I want to do it again [against Klitschko].

The victory came by a unanimous decision in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Fury, who shed 32 kilos in five months to get in shape for the fight, landed a bruising left uppercut in the ninth that wounded Klitschko’s right eye.

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“We’ll soon work out when and where the rematch will take place and let you know”, he added.

Fury constantly tried to unsettle Klitschko during the build up to the fight, with posts on Twitter and comments to the press about how he was going to crush Klitschko.

Fury landed a right in the fifth but a Klitschko right hand was arguably the best punch of the fight at that stage.