"Let's get it on!": Tyson Fury issues challenge to UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez
3 Jan 2013 12:22
British heavyweight boxing star Tyson Fury isn't shy of calling out potential opponents, and now he's targeted a new heavyweight - UFC world champion Cain Velasquez
Outspoken: Tyson Fury has already called out David Price and the Klitschkos - and now he wants to fight UFC star Cain Velasquez
Mexican-American Velasquez destroyed then-champion Junior Dos Santos to reclaim the UFC's heavyweight championship of the world on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
And now Fury, who has already made clear his desire to fight David Price and Vitali Klitschko in 2013, says he fancies a crack at the UFC superstar - either in an MMA bout or a boxing contest.
Posting on his Twitter page, Fury accused Velasquez, a collegiate All-American wrestler and two-time UFC heavyweight world champion, of being on steroids, and challenged him to a bout "in a cage or ring".
Tyson Fury@Tyson_Fury
Cain valasquez is a little midget on steds bring it on I'll fight. Not a man born from his mother can beat me! Contact Hennessy sports!
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Tyson Fury@Tyson_Fury
@cainmma I challenge u to fight all in in a cage or ring! It could be billed as the man vs midget lets get it on! U small stif idiot. Tit!
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Fury went on to tweet UFC president Dana White, saying, "I'm the new baddest man on the planet I'll smash @cainmma. Let's get it on!"
It's highly unlikely White would sanction another boxer vs MMA fighter event in the UFC, with the last bout proving a one-sided mismatch.
The bout saw an out-of-shape James "Lights Out" Toney face 47-year-old former UFC heavyweight champion Randy Couture at UFC 118 in 2010.
Toney failed to land a single punch as Couture took him to the mat and eventually submitted the former multi-weight world champion in just over three minutes in 2010.
Toney's lack of conditioning made the fight a mismatch from the start, but the addition of techniques not permitted in boxing, such as wrestling, submissions and knee and elbow strikes, makes an MMA fight a more complex challenge for a boxing specialist.
Fury would possess a huge height and reach advantage over Velasquez, but the UFC star has prodigious punching power of his own and, with his top-level wrestling skills and superb cardio, he'd offer a challenge unlike any Fury has faced inside a boxing ring.
It's a fantasy fight that will almost certainly never happen, but that doesn't mean we can't debate the possible outcome. Who would YOUR money be on?
Yeah this is never going to happen again, Toney-Couture put an end to the boxing-MMA fantasy fights. Tyson Fury is a moron who upper-cut punched himself in the face (youtube it). On a side note, Brits really like to talk trash dont they? :laugh:
Woah there! I didn't say shit. Nahhh but really I have no idea what my fave HW boxer is on about. If he wants to fight Cain in a cage it will be over quicker than the Toney/Couture fight. If he's talking about a boxing match then why not call out JDS? Still, in a boxing match Fury would obviously murder both.
On a side note, the dude he was fighting when he uppercutted himself is Lee Swaby. Someone I've trained with multiple times and now works as a bouncer here in Lincoln. Not that technical but impossible to hurt.
:laugh: Fury is not even good enough to get a title in his own sport....he should go after the stiff idiots closer to home like David Price, Wladimir Klitschko
Cain beats Fury in boxing and MMA. Fury is a complete joke who is shit scared to fight David Price despite what that report says. Fury would get stopped by Mike Perez easily.
It seems like not many people like this fight. **** that! Make it happen! I don't know shit about Fury because I don't follow Boxing and as far as I can tell this clown is irrelevant. Anyways, let 'em fight. I don't doubt that a lot of Boxers are training more than just Boxing now, but this clown is delusional to think he belongs in the same cage, ring, ..., ******* zip code, as Cain.
I'm not joking. Fury is a horrible, HORRIBLE boxer, and he loses to literally anyone who knows how to throw a proper punch. He doesn't have a credible win on his entire record. Audley Harrison > Everyone Fury has fought. Cain knocks him out with an overhand.
I do notice the difference between MMA/Boxing, mainly because I'm still probably slightly more of a boxing fan than MMA. David Price probably KOs Cain in the first round, but he also KOs Fury in the first round. Fury has no chin, no technique, no real experience. He's a big fat guy, I guess that counts for something?
I'm not joking. Fury is a horrible, HORRIBLE boxer, and he loses to literally anyone who knows how to throw a proper punch. He doesn't have a credible win on his entire record. Audley Harrison > Everyone Fury has fought. Cain knocks him out with an overhand.
I do notice the difference between MMA/Boxing, mainly because I'm still probably slightly more of a boxing fan than MMA. David Price probably KOs Cain in the first round, but he also KOs Fury in the first round. Fury has no chin, no technique, no real experience. He's a big fat guy, I guess that counts for something?
Loses? Am I missing something here? 20 fights. 20 wins. 14 Kos. He might not be the most technical but I have yet to see him struggle. As for all the people who say he's shit or whatever, how many 6ft 9" boxers do you know that have the technical abiltiy of a Pacman, Maywether, Marquez? Just saying. Also, not that I'm bothered about reps, I just got a neg with a comment saying 'Naseem Hamed'. Thats it. No sig. Lol, some people are weirdos. Oh well, thats 10 neg reps and 106 pos reps. :thumb02:
I see. Yeah I agree most of the HW division is boring. I don't know why I just don't really find his matches that boring. I enjoy watching his fights to see if anyone could actually knock him out. He's not as slow as some HW boxers and for a dude who is 6 9" is actually pretty fast. Alot of people seem to be basing his performances on his most high proflie fights such as the Chisora fight and his last fight, the WBC title eliminator against Kevin Johnson, both of which went to decision.
I think people should give him a break. HW Boxing sucks nowadays, and thats probably why I hold Fury in a fairly high regard. No idea why i chose him as my user name though. I registered in 2010 and didn't post until 2011 so can't remember why I chose that name. Everywhere else my user name is Dr Gonzo, in reference to the amazing book by Hunter S. Thompson. Wish I chose that now.
I wouldnt bet on Cain beating Fury in a boxing match, but i certainly wouldnt be surprised. I think top MMA heavyweights have a way better work ethic than most HW boxers, Cains power and athleticism would give him a good chance against Fury imo, who is fat and slow.
It's not even that Cain's THAT talented at boxing, I just happen to think Tyson Fury is the worst top 10 boxer in any weight division, and anyone with an overhand right and decent power puts him on his back.
Common sense tells me that if you're going to call out an mma fighter, you should atleast train MMA and become an MMA fighter first. Any boxer that thinks he can just step in the cage and get KO's clearly doesn't know how MMA works. If Tyson Fury secretly has been working on his wrestling and has D1 takedown defense, than this fight would be interesting. Other than that, this fight would just be Couture/Toney all over again, and this guy is a tool who needs to stick to boxing.
Can't stand Fury, I eagerly await the day Price or a Klitchko smash him into oblivion.
In a cage... lulz not even worth predicting the outcome, same applies to the ring, it's like saying a handball player would outplay a basketball player ffs.
Once, before most of you were born, I considered myself a real boxing fan. To me, the next big HW match was the biggest event in sports.
It's funny how much MMA changed that. Our own Tyson Fury was posting here for many months before I realized that was a real boxer's name. I thought it was some reference to mike.:smoke01:
An easy mistake to make... I mean... what kind of idiot calls himself that? Unless he was born with that name?? In which case, his parents are total feckwits.
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