What does Fury say to ?The bigger they are the harder they fall!?? Well, ?That?s something a small man would say.? Fantastic. The Sound of the Fury!
TYSON FURY VS. STEVE U.S.S. CUNNINGHAM. APRIL 20TH, MECCA OF BOXING.EMBRACE YOUR INNER FURY!!
Paddy Day Celebration, O?Reilly Bar and Grill, Kitchener, Canada
?I?ve got one thing to say to Wladimir Klitschko, you are a pussy old son. When you grow a pair of balls, come fight me and I?ll relieve you of all your belts?come grow a pair of balls or fuck off!??Tyson Fury
Size 6?9?. Check. Record 20-0. Check. Good looking kid (so the girls at the office say). Check. Fits the New York demographics, big white Irish lad with a quote to go every time he opens his mouth. Check. Has a great fighter name. Check. Has a fighting heritage in the background?hell he is of The Traveler?s?gypsy settle it with a punch in the kisser type?check, check, check, check.
We should embrace the Sound of the Fury. He is a welcoming to this otherwise staid Heavy scene. Oh, I think I might, just might, know what you are thinking Pete The Sneak, Don from Prov, Irish Frankie, Pugknows, raxman, Bodyshots, Coiley lad and all the rest that try and keep an honest man of us boxing scribblers. Can he fight? Hell you are not the only one tossing and a turning of Jack Bodell getting destroyed by American ?Irish? Jerry, of Joe ?the bug,? of ?Our En?ry.?
?I know that Irishmen fight their way into everything???Budd Schulberg
Well it is next step up time for young fast and Fury, April 20th against Steve U.S.S. Cunningham at the Mecca of Boxing, Madison Square Garden. A big, big man vs. a not so big man in comparison.
I suppose there has always been a fascination dating back to the stone age of the little man besting a big man. Certainly it dates back to 1 Samuel 17 and the blow-by-blow account, more or scripture less, of young David, future King of Israel, and a stone he did give, felling the giant Philistine warrior Goliath.
Moving forward to more sedate non rock throwing pugilistic era there is of course ample case for the fall of the big man. The big, so they say fat, Dutchman, Jan Plaacke, all 300 pounds and 6?6?? in stature of course was felled by the Real McCoy, Kid by name, a mere middleweight. The big man was ?beaten almost insensible? in under four minutes. McCoy ?darted in and out and around his burly opponent? and destroyed the six-inch taller, seventy-pound heavier Plaacke. Six inches! Seventy pounds! My oh my what would Mother Plaacke think! Moving along with the late 1800s and early 1900s there was ?The Human Freight Car,? the 285-pound plus Ed Dunkorst, from Boxing Hall of Fame country, Syracuse, New York, who had his Train links derailed by a Light Heavy, a lad by the name of Fitzsimmons, Bob who I do believe went on to all types of larger things in his career. Onwards and downwards of Firpo, of Primo, not ?Too Tall? Jones down New Mexico way?
?I am an ultimate supreme specimen of a man?you?re a bum?look at the chubbiness of him, Mr. Chubby Checker, Mr. Sunglasses???Tyson Fury on opponent Kevin Johnson during the pre-fight press conference
It is not that long ago that young (24 years old) Fury was expressing suicidal thoughts of deep depression. There is of course great pressure to this fighter business in and out of ring and perhaps more so for our young Irish- Manchurian Candidate for Heavyweight honors. Is he up to the task? Well as our good friend Irish Darcy ?R? is apt to say; ?Is I Ding Di Fein a Scoileann An Dair?? (It is a wedge of itself that splits the oak. Or otherwise beware the enemy within.) In the Fury case there is of course the background of Dear Dad having to spend a lengthy time, eleven years, in jail having gouged a man?s eye out of socket in an out of ring scrap at a public car auction scene, thereby settling a twelve-year grudge. A great deal to carry of hopes, dreams, and otherwise for young Fury?
CAN THE IRISH MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE FIGHT??
Well perhaps it is best to cut right to the chase. Oh yes the big man can fight and when he is in top shape, as he has been the last few go rounds, and works behind that big long hard jab, well then he is as good, and probable better than, as anything out there. The few times he has had his whiskers tested he has shown that Traveler background. The big lad likes to fight!! He has a solid amateur background. No Seth Mitchell here lads. No undersized Povetkin.
The Kingpin ?test? of Kevin Johnson showed a different side of Tyson Fury. There was a sound fistic maturity as young Fury outboxed the ?Kingpin? behind that long commanding jab for all twelve rounds. He boxed Johnson?s ears off in scoring a twelve-round shutout on the scorecards.
We shall see of this Fury shortly.
Fury could be, and has been to date, as refreshing as a new unwrapped bar of Irish Spring soap. The components are all there. The Fury can fight. The Fury will fight and when he chirps that he means to ?do the business? to Cunningham it is of the most serious intention. Poppa Fury, Gypsy John, would have no less of it and if you think this Gypsy business is rubbish well then you best be doing your bareknuckle homework of the ?King of the Gypsies,? Mr. Bartley Gorman. It is of that stock and punch trade that young Fury?s background comes. Yes, he means to do serious business.
And what does Irish Darcy ?R? have to say? ?Shmite did ya ere of the big Irish scrapper o was told by the Doc that he had to give a yourin (urine) sampool (sample)? The lad asks ?What?s a yourin (urine) sampool?? The Doc is busy so he tells the giant lad, ?Go piss in a bottle then.? The big Irish laddee retorts ?Go shit in your hat then? and the fight is on and that is Irish as it gits in?t.?
Yes, embrace your inner Fury. What does young Fury say to that time old quote of ?The bigger they are the harder they fall!?? Well, ?That?s something a small man would say.? Fantastic. The Sound of the Fury!
