LOSE THE FLAB AND QUIT SHOWBOATING
TYSON FURY has been told by Frank Warren to ditch the flab and the showboating after his farcical comeback.
Fury won on his return from two-and-a-half years out when the hapless Sefer Seferi quit after four rounds of this little-and-large mismatch.
The former unified world heavyweight champ ‘entertained’ the 15,000 crowd at Manchester Arena by showboating and he spent more time pulling faces and holding out his arms than fighting.
Despite losing nearly eight stone for the fight, he still carried a spare tyre on his dad bod. Warren wants to a leaner and less flashy Fury in his next fight on the undercard of Carl Frampton’s big Windsor Park show in Belfast on August 18.
“He’s got to shift a bit more weight,” said Fury’s promoter. “He’s still a stone, stone-and-a-half to get off and when he does it will make him more mobile.
“I want to see him get rid of the weight so he’s training for a contest rather than having to work to lose the weight. Once he’s done that, you’ll see he will get sharper.”
Warren, joined in Manchester by Gazza (above), blamed nerves for Fury showing off so much to the crowd.
“I get p **** d off with that, but he’s a spontaneous guy,” he said. “I think that’s the last we’ll see of that. There were a certain amount of nerves and why wouldn’t there be?
He’s been out of the ring over two-anda-half years.”
After waiting so long for Fury’s return since he desee throned Wladimir Klitschko, this was an anti-climax. As a spectacle, we knew it would be bad, but we didn’t think it would be this bad.
Fury was coated in ring rust and his movement looked off. It summed up how dire the contest was that the fighters briefly paused in the second round to watch when a scrap broke out in the crowd, a brawl which provided more action than they did.
Warren is right when he says Fury needs several fights before he can dream of tackling Anthony Joshua and Deontay Wilder.
Fury, now 26-0, was not bothered and claimed to be delighted. “He took me a few rounds and I was happy with that,” he said.
“I enjoyed myself more than I did for Wladimir’s fight. I could have knocked him out in 10 seconds, I could have done him in one round. But what good would that have done me?”