Saturday, 25 February 2012

Tyson Fury: Martin Rogan confirmed

On the 14th April 2012, undefeated English giant, Tyson Fury, will step into the ring once more. It's been nearly a year since the biggest win of his career, when he claimed victory on points against Derek Chisora, but the pair seem to now have moved in completely opposite directions. Chisora has made bigger strides on the world scene, losing controversially to Finland's Robert Helenius, and most recently Vitali Klitschko, whilst Fury has remained content with fighting much less illustrious names. Since the fight with Chisora, he has fought just twice, and both times against fighters that some might consider, are of lesser ability. Nicolai Firtha was his first victim, and Fury overcame him with little problems, before moving onto undefeated Canadian Neven Pajkic, again winning it without too much difficulty, despite being knocked down for the first time in his career. Since then he has relinquished the titles he won from Chisora, rather than defend them against mandatory candidate David Price, and instead has chosen to return with a fight against 40 year old, ex-Commonwealth champion, Martin Rogan. With Fury's current record standing at 17-0, you are not to be blamed for thinking that he could have perhaps selected a more challenging foe. 

Tyson Fury and his challenger Martin Rogan face off.
The mancunian colossus stands at 6'9' inches tall and has won 12 of his 17 bouts by way of knock out. He's been touted as Britain's hottest heavyweight prospect, and looked impressive in all of his biggest fights. In contrast, Rogan, of Northern Ireland, has only fought 16 times professionally, and has lost two of those bouts. Both of his defeats have come against Sam Sexton, who was in turn twice knocked out by Derek Chisora, who of course came up short against Fury himself. Despite being 6'3' inches tall, Rogan has a massive height disadvantage coming into this fight, something that is generally considered in heavyweight boxing, to be of some importance. If that wasn't all, he's thirteen years Fury's senior and, before you refer to the age difference between Vitali Klitschko and Derek Chisora, has a definite lack of experience for his age. 

It just might be that Fury has rushed into securing a fight because Chisora is hogging his limelight, and in recent times has been illustrating to the world, the gap that is started to appear between the two in terms of ambition. However, there is also the opinion that Fury is merely looking to gain more experience before he moves up into the realms of quality where the likes of the Klitschko brothers roam. After all, he is merely 23 years of age, so time is very much on his side. The chances are, that by the time he does look to challenge on the world scene, Vitali Klitschko will have already hung up his boxing gloves, cutting in half the almost impossible task of unifying the world title belts. There of course, will remain critics that say he should be displaying more ambition, particularly as many have it lodged in their minds, that the move to give up his belts rather than face the up and coming David Price, was that of a nervous man. Fury himself however has insisted that the fans wanted to see him against Rogan, stating: 'it's about going in there and giving the fans a great fight and I know Martin Rogan, and I've got nothing but respect for the man.'

It's needless to say that Fury will be a massive favourite for the bout, which has been confirmed to take place on Rogan's home territory in Belfast, but he will still have to fight to his best unless he wants to run the risk of losing before he's even come close to world glory. He says that Rogan is still dangerous, and for Rogan it may be a case of 'life in the old dog yet', but I for one will be expecting to see a swift knock out from the man who is ranked the best heavyweight in Britain. 
The pair, as the fight for April 14th was announced.

So it may not have the hype of Chisora vs Vitali Klitschko, or a potential fight between Amir Khan and Floyd Mayweather, but it has the potential to be not so much make or break for Fury, rather than win or break. One things for certain; if he can't beat Rogan in convincing fashion, the hordes of Britain's who place their hopes of heavyweight success upon his massive shoulders, will begin to look elsewhere. 

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