“Never been an explosive puncher”- Eddie Hearn argues Tyson Fury lacks striking power, believes Dillian Whyte doesn’t
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Tyson Fury-Eddie Hearn- Dillian Whyte
Despite knocking out a knockout king like Deontay Wilder not once but twice, people are still sceptical of Tyson Fury’s power, at least boxing promoter Eddie Hearn is clear on his side that Fury has no explosiveness as compared to Hearn’s fighter in Dillian Whyte. Fury and Whyte are going to square off each other inside the boxing ring for the unification of the World Boxing Council’s (WBC) interim and undisputed heavyweight belts on April 23, 2022.
Fury, an undefeated boxer who hails from a boxing background through his father John Fury, is currently the Ring and WBC undisputed heavyweight champion will face Whyte, a professional boxer and a former kickboxer, who currently holds the interim- WBC heavyweight championship. Fury originally wanted to fight Oleksandr Usyk who’s the WBA, WBO, IBO and IBF heavyweight champion and get the rest of the belts under his record to become the undisputed heavyweight champion for the second time in his career. However, Usyk will have to fight Anthony Joshua in a rematch due to a rematch clause played by Joshua himself after losing his titles to Usyk in the first fight.
Eddie Hearn thinks Dillian Whyte is going to “dog” Tyson Fury in their fight
Eddie Hearn, chairman of Matchroom Sport, one of the promotional firms and who manages fighters such as the likes of Canelo Alvarez, Katie Taylor and Whyte himself gave an interview to iFL TV to talk about the DAZN PPV system, a potential matchup between Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder, and how Tyson Fury is no match for Dillian Whyte when it comes to punching power in boxing.
“I don’t think he is an out and out puncher,” says Hearn “I don’t think Tyson Fury is a big heavyweight puncher and if you know anything about heavyweight boxing, he’s not… if you list the top five-six guys in the division he’s not up there in terms of his power he’s not… you look at his resume whether it’s [Christian] Hammer, whether it’s [Derek] Chisora, whether it’s [Wladimir] Klitschko, whether it’s [Tom] Schwartz… [Otto] Walin, even against [Sefer] Seferi and [Francesco] Pianeta…
He’s never been an explosive puncher, but, he stopped Deontay Wilder more with pressure and work rate but I don’t think he’s a one-punch knockout specialist” continues Hearn “That’s what I am talking about and I feel Dillian Whyte is so… I see that fight going late, I don’t see Tyson Fury winning that fight early by stoppage and if it goes late I favour Dillian Whyte because he’s going to dog him all night. He [Whyte] is going to trade up left hooks and I think he’s got great in my opinion… It’s hard having a conversation with a fanboy but you know, we move as the kids say,” concludes Hearn.
What do you make of Hearn’s assessment of Fury’s punching power, do you agree with him? Out of Fury’s 31 wins, 22 of them come via knockouts. Hearn’s fighter Whyte is 28-2 with 19 wins via knockouts. The finish rate of Fury and Whyte is nearly close, it’s rather interesting to debate upon who got the bigger probability of knocking his opponent out.
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