By Geno McGahee
There is one thing you are always guaranteed when you sit down to watch a Hughie Fury, 23-3, 13 KO’s, fight and that’s a terribly ugly, boring dance. That was the case with his bout with former heavyweight champion, Alexander Povetkin, 35-2, 24 KO’s, as he awkwardly moved and never really pulled the trigger against the plodding former champ. Povetkin would take the decision by scores of 117-111 across the board in a fight where there was really no winner. The biggest losers were the viewers.
From the opening bell, Fury looked uncomfortable and was never able to really get any stead offense going against the obviously out of shape Povetkin. In the end, Povetkin lives to fight another day, but any real heavyweight contender will beat him with relative ease at this point. Fury just isn’t an elite heavyweight and doesn’t have a style to do anything other than confuse his opponent by the pure awkwardness.
