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sportsMonday 30 November 2015

After beating Klitschko, Fury wants to be ‘great champion’

CIARAN FAHEY who is expecting their third child. months. Fury, on the other hand, is about a potential bout with Deon-
Associated Press The build-up to the bout had been only likely to improve. tay Wilder to unify the four major
BERLIN (AP) — He threatened to dominated by Fury’s antics and “I’m a fighter, so I will take on all titles. The American holds the WBC
walk away from boxing if he lost trash-talking, as well as disputes challengers. I want to be a great title that was vacated by Vitali
to Wladimir Klitschko, or even if he over the gloves, canvas and finally champion. So I could do it all Klitschko to concentrate on poli-
won. Now the always unpredict- the hand-wrapping before the again. I came here tonight, took tics in 2013. The older Klitschko is
able Tyson Fury says he intends to fight. The next will likely be more of the world titles, so whatever hap- the current mayor of Kiev.
be a great heavyweight cham- the same, with a lucrative payout pens next is a blessing,” said Fury, “Can you not count? I’ve got
pion. for the participants. who is of Irish-Gypsy heritage and four,” Fury said as he counted the
“I hope to have many more “The interest in the next fight will comes from a bloodline of bare- belts. Then: “Why do we need to
defenses of these titles in fu-
ture,” Fury said after outpointing Britain’s new world champion Tyson Fury celebrates with the WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO belts after winning the world
the Ukrainian Saturday night and
taking his WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight title fight against Ukraine’s Wladimir Klitschko in the Esprit Arena in Duesseldorf, western Germany, Sunday,
heavyweight belts in a huge box-
ing upset. “If I could be half as Nov. 29, 2015. Associated Press
good a champion as Wladimir
Klitschko, I’d be very, very happy.” be crazy,” said Klitschko’s older knuckle champions on both sides mention Deontay Wilder? Let’s
The 39-year-old Klitschko had brother Vitali, the former WBC of his family. have a laugh at his name shall
reigned for 9 ½ years since beat- champion. “We know Wladimir’s “It’s a very great honor for me we?”
ing Chris Byrd for the IBF belt in potential and that’s the question: to be sat here, champion of the But Fury was keen to pay tribute to
Mannheim in 2006. He defended In a rematch do we see him back world four times over. It’s not come Klitschko, before verbally punch-
the title 18 times and hadn’t been in his old form or that today was no easy. Twenty-five fights now, three ing Wilder again.
beaten since losing to Lamon accident? Only he can answer this world title eliminators, so I earned “This man has been on top for
Brewster in Las Vegas in 2004. question. I’ll just say that we didn’t my right to be here. I wasn’t given so long, he’s reigned as cham-
But the unbeaten Fury — 12 years see much of Wladimir’s potential anything for free,” Fury said. “Ev- pion of the world for the lon-
Klitschko’s junior — made the older (against Fury).” erybody wrote us off, said we had gest,” Fury said. “If Deontay Wilder
man look ordinary at the 55,000- Klitschko dropped to 64-4 with 53 no chance ... we all believed we wants a unification fight he’s going
seat soccer stadium in Duessel- knockouts after contesting his 28th could do it, we came here and we to have to wait, because Wladimir
dorf, as the Briton lived up to the title fight. Time is not on his side with done it.” Klitschko has a round two — ding
promises that few had taken seri- his 40th birthday coming up in four Fury was scornful when asked ding ding!”q
ously beforehand.
A rematch beckons, a stipulation
the Klitschko camp insisted upon in
the fight contract.
“So, to be continued. But we can’t
yet say how or when or where,”
Klitschko said.
Fury, now 25-0 with 18 knockouts,
said he would happily fight again
in Germany.
“It doesn’t really matter to me
where I fight. If you say I’m fight-
ing in Japan, Turkey, Azerbaijan,
America, wherever it has to be, it
has to be,” Fury said. “I’d like to
come back to Germany again to
fight Wladimir. I enjoyed it. I got a
great reception from the German
fans. The German people really
did show me some love.”
Fury had been entertaining them
all week. He serenaded Klitschko
with his own version of the Bette
Midler song “Wind Beneath My
Wings” on Wednesday, and he
celebrated beating him by singing
Aerosmith’s “I Don’t Want to Miss a
Thing” in the ring to his wife Paris,