THERE are a multitude of reasons why Tyson Fury will be the rank outsider when he steps into the ring to face Deontay Wilder.
The ring rust, the extreme weight loss, the inferior punching power, the recent history of mental health problems, the disadvantage of boxing away from home.
Fury has not had a meaningful fight since he dethroned Dr Steelhammer Wladimir Klitschko three years ago to the week.
Since then he’s failed a drug test, battled addiction and depression, and then needed to shed TEN STONE in a gruelling training regime.
It all makes this WBC world heavyweight title fight feel like a foregone conclusion.
Yet listen to Gypsy King and his team and they make a highly plausible case for an upset victory.
Forget for a minute, Fury the trash-talking loudmouth.
Forget the Fury who reached the summit then chucked it all away.
The flipside of all that is Fury the natural-born boxer, the master of his craft, the scholar of the noble art.
The 6ft 9in Godzilla with feet like Fred Astaire.
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And this narrative seemed to rattle Wilder, the unbeaten American champion, when the fighters squared up at a stormy and tawdry final press conference.
There, Fury — born into a fighting family — scoffed at the fact Wilder had failed to make the grade at basketball or American football before he first laced up a pair of boxing gloves at 20.
Later, he rammed home that message about his own superior boxing heritage and ability.
Fury said: “I will 100 per cent make him look silly. He’s going to look like the clown he is.
“He’s got no technique. If I can’t beat Deontay Wilder then I’m not very good and I’m not the man I think I am. How are you going to be considered a great if you can’t beat a bum who throws windmills?
“Klitschko was the longest-reigning heavyweight champion. Who did Wilder beat?
“A flash in the pan (Bermane Stiverne). Someone who got a title shot because Vitali Klitschko vacated his title.
“He is banking on me being rusty but he’s not getting half a fighter, he’s getting the best Tyson Fury there’s ever been.”
Those were bold words from the British challenger — and not even his own veteran promoter Frank Warren was willing to entirely back them up.
And Warren admits he is as intrigued as anyone to find out whether his man can recapture the glory of his unanimous points win over Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf in 2015.
He said: “The big question is, ‘How has his time out of the ring affected him?’
“He’s had two easy comeback fights, where he trained to make the weight rather than training for the fight.
“He’s lost ten stone, so what has he got left? But I think if he’s 80 per cent of what he was, then he beats Wilder.
“Who’s the better boxer of the two? Tyson is a far, far better and more accomplished boxer.
“Tyson’s very smart — one of the most intelligent and difficult fighters to box.
“He’s a switch hitter, he moves from side to side, he’s very hard to hit, he rides shots. What Wilder matches him for is speed.
“They’re both fast. But Tyson is also a boxing encyclopedia — an exponent of the art of boxing, he’s a boxing historian. He knows everything.
“He would be a great TV pundit because he knows the game back to front. He studies old fighters and he learns from it.
“He’s looked at Wilder and he knows what his strengths and weaknesses are.
“The only question is, ‘Has Tyson Fury still got it in him to do what he’s done in the past?’ Because we don’t know that — nobody knows the answer to that.”
While we’ll have to wait until the early hours of Sunday morning, UK time, to find out how it plays out in practice, the scholarly Fury has no doubts about the theory of seeing off the 40-fight unbeaten Wilder.
He watched the American’s seventh and most recent title defence — when the 33-year-old Bronze Bomber knocked out the respected, but podgy, Cuban veteran Luis Ortiz in March.
And Fury said: “As a man who studies boxing, I can see all the mistakes Wilder makes.
“I got up at 5am and watched it and hoped he would win so that he could fight me.
“All the way up to the seventh round I was saying, ‘You’d better pull a punch out’, because I had Ortiz ahead.
“It shows no one is a superhero, everyone can be hurt.
“If Ortiz had been fitter he probably would have beaten him.
“Ortiz is 147 years old, though, I’m 30 and in my prime. I could do 15 rounds on my toes, dancing like Ali.
“I’m a born-and-bred fighting man. I was never interested in playing basketball or anything else. I came out of the womb to box.”
Whether it means much when hostilities begin in the Staples Center late tomorrow night, Fury has won the war of words hands down.
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