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Wladimir Klitschko Will Smash Right Through Tyson Fury
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Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko worked out in Dusseldorf's airport

• Fury finished his session with a version of Wind Beneath My Wings
• He claimed the champion Klitschko is nervous ahead of the fight
• But the Ukrainian's trainer dismissed the challenger's chances of victory

Daily Mail UK, 25 November 2015


Wladimir Klitschko will be the iceberg to Tyson Fury's Titanic on Saturday night, according to the long-reigning world heavyweight champion's trainer.
The two giants were put through a light workout at Dusseldorf's airport on Wednesday, with Fury finishing his with a rendition of Wind Beneath My Wings.

But Johnathon Banks, who took over from the late Emanuel Steward in Klitschko's corner, dismissed the challenger's chances.

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Wladimir Klitschko's trainer Johnathon Banks (left) believes his charge will go right through Tyson Fury


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Klitschko looked light and fast while peppering the pads with shots in the workout


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Klitschko is believed to be lighter than normal as he bids to out work Fury when they meet on Saturday


Referring to Fury being the even bigger man, he said: 'Tyson is the Titanic but Wladimir is the iceberg.'
Fury responded: 'This is not 1912. It's 2015. We have all the technology now and we no longer sail into icebergs.'

He also challenged the perceived wisdom that his best chance of springing one of boxing's all-time upsets is to land a concussive blow early in the fight.

'It's the other way round,' he told us. 'The longer it goes the more certain it becomes that I will be the new champion.
'And he knows it, knows that as an old man (39) he will be in real trouble in the later rounds. He also knows I'm not coming to win on points, which is very hard for a foreigner to do in Germany. I'm knocking him out.'


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Fury throws an uppercut as he works out with uncle and trainer Peter just three days before fight night


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A relaxed Fury spoke to the media and posed for pictures after his light exercise


Fury stayed to watch Klitschko go through his paces, saying:

‘Nothing personal against Wladimir, but look at him. He’s very nervous and he’s realising now why he never wanted to fight me.
'He’s only doing it now because I’ve worked all my life to become his mandatory challenger and he has to fight me.
'Just by looking at him I can see not just his anxiety but his game plan.

'He is usually patient in his fights but not this Saturday. He will come to attack from the first bell, hoping to put me down early. He knows that's his only hope. When it doesn't happen in the first two or three rounds he will know he's a beaten old man.
'He knows already that in the betting I'm only a 3/1 underdog while all his recent opponents have been 16-1. That's on his mind.'

Fury ended his session by directing his adapted version of the song made famous by Bette Midler at the watching champion.


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Fury performs his version of 'Wind Beneath My Wings' to a watching Klitschko


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Fury works out under the lights in front of the watching media and the fans who have already made the journey


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Klitschko watches on with his team at the airport in Dusseldorf ahead of taking his turn in the ring


These were the key lines from the Mancunian traveller who plans to sing again in the Esprit football stadium ‘after I knock out Wladimir:’

‘It must be cold there in my shadow
You are the one with all the glory
I’m the one with all the strength
Soon I’ll be the one with all the belts
You are the wind beneath my wings.’

Immediately thereafter the two men found themselves together in a ring for the first time.
Klitschko climbed through the ropes to begin his workout while Fury was still standing in one corner giving interviews and joking with a crowd of several hundred airline passengers passing through the terminal, travellers all.


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Fury exchanged words with Klitschko as he left the ring to allow the Ukrainian to complete his workout


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Fury has appeared relaxed all week ahead of the biggest fight of his career in Dusseldorf


Once Klitschko had completed his stretching and pad work he joined in the spirit of the occasion, saying: ‘Thank you for the song Tyson but this is not a singing contest. It’s a boxing match.’

The 11-year world champion and current holder of the WBA, IBF, WBO, IBO and Ring magazine belts again thanked Fury for selling the promotion and added: ‘This will be a very good fight fought with respect, in a fair manner.’
At which Fury grinned mischievously from his seat at ringside.

He was happy that the controversy over the gloves he is contracted to wear has been resolved.

Klitschko’s manager Bernd Boente declared that a bespoke pair in the alternative design of the Paffen gloves which Tyson has been demanding have been finished by the manufacturers in time and will be available for inspection at the rules meeting following Friday’s weigh-in.


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Fury has won his fight over the gloves and will have his preferred pair against Klitschko


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Fury complained that the gloves he was sent hurt his thumb and he feared breaking it in the fight


Fury’s manager Mick Hennessy said: ‘It’s been resolved but it wouldn’t have been if we hadn’t made a public fuss about it with that row at the press conference.’

Glove-gate then morphed into Shoe-gate as Fury revealed that his footwear for the fight was a present to him from Klitschko’s late, great trainer Manny Steward.

Fury worked briefly under Steward at Detroit’s fabled Kronk gym early in his career and wore the shoes for this workout. He reminded Klitschko: ‘You’re not the only one who has been trained my Manny.

‘He gave me these shoes and they’ve been lucky for me in every fight since. They look old and dirty but they are special to me, coming from such a great man. They are sentimental for me.’


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Fury revealed his boots were given to him by Klitschko's late, great trainer Emanuel Steward


Before Steward died he predicted that Fury would become a dominant world champion.

When that was put to the current heavyweight king, Klitschko said: ‘Yes, Emanuel did say that when he brought him to my training camp to see how a champion works. But then he said that about a lot of my opponents and I beat them all. It was one of his ways of motivating me.’

Fury has not yet decided what to sing in front of a 50,000 crowd in the roofed-in Esprit Arena, if he gets the chance.

With another of his cheeky grins, he borrowed from a chant more frequently heard in football stadia: ‘We only sing when we’re winning.’


EPIC! - TYSON FURY SINGS 'WIND BENEATH MY WINGS' TO WLADIMIR KLITSCHKO AT DUSSELDORF AIRPORT