By Terence Dooley

Tyson Fury took to the airwaves to continue what he claims is an all-out psychological assault on heavyweight world Champion Wladimir Klitschko.

They face off at the ESPIRIT Arena in Dusseldorf on October 24 for the WBO, WBA, IBF and IBO belts.  The challenger said "This Klit is getting licked" at this week’s press conference and continued to unleash verbal flack when speaking to Channel 5.

“I think I did get into his mind with the spiel I was giving him—I don’t think he’s had anyone go into him with as much intelligence as I gave him,” stated fury.

“I think the key to beating Wladimir is in the build up, he will have lost it in the build up—that’s what I intend to do.  He’s a weak mental person.  He kept going on about psychology and all that stuff, but at the end of this he’ll be hiring me to be a psychologist.”

“He’s as good now as he was when he was 25, 35,” he added when asked if the Ukrainian is showing his age.

“When I beat him, I don’t want people to say he’s a faded champion.  He’s just been rated the top pound-for-pound heavyweight of all times.  I’ll be the greatest when I beat him, I’ll be saying ‘I’m the greatest’ like Muhammad Ali.  I’ll be beating a guy who hasn’t been beaten for 11-years.  I will shake up the world then (WBC holder) Deontay Wilder’s jaw with a right cross.”

His cousin, Hughie Fury, also also featured on tonight’s Mick Hennessy-promoted Derby Arena bill.

Fury met George Arias over 10 three-minute rounds in the chief support to Nick Blackwell’s British middleweight title defence against Damon Jones.

Arias, 41, had only been stopped four times in 12 defeats going in. The Brazilian was brought in to give Fury rounds and did exactly that, losing a 100-90 shutout while extending the 20-year-old prospect the full distance. 

Fury is now 16-0 (8); Arias falls to 56-13 (24).

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