By George Ogier

In the run up to Saturday’s fight Tyson Fury invoked the name of Buster Douglas and claimed that he would shock the world in the same way. In the biggest surprise offered up by heavyweight boxing since that night in Tokyo Fury was true to his word as he became King of the giants.

In truth a very ordinary fight shifted the heavyweight landscape in a way few imagined when the bout was first announced. Fury was erratic and Wladimir Klitschko rather gun shy in what became a fairly lopsided result. I scored the fight much closer and until I watched it for a second time I had Klitschko winning by two rounds.

None of that matters now because as we all know history is written by the winners. The record books will show that an enormous underdog beat a man on an 11-year winning streak. In doing so Tyson Fury blew a division regarded as stale and rather boring wide open.

After such a momentous night, what does the future hold for the new champion of the world? It was no surprise to hear talk of an immediate rematch in the post-fight melee. Klitschko himself said “to be continued”.

It has been suggested that Fury has agreed to a rematch in Germany, the only stipulation being that he receives a larger cut of the purse. A lot of things get said in the immediate aftermath of a big fight and it will be interesting to see how this pans out.

All of Tyson Fury’s peers will have been watching last night and very few of them will have seen an insurmountable foe when looking at Britain’s eleventh current world champion. Wladimir Klitschko threw the fight away with his reticence to sling a right hand in anger. Would Anthony Joshua be so circumspect? One imagines not and the same surely applies to Deontay Wilder, Alexander Povetkin and even David Haye.

Indeed, both Wilder and Fury, the two men in possession of the heavyweight straps are seen as eminently beatable and this is probably the best thing to have come out of Saturday night’s events. It has been a long time since the division captured public imagination. The perceived fallibilities in Tyson Fury’s make up are still there in the eyes of many. Wladimir Klitschko’s failure to take advantage of them means that the big men are back and it’s going to be entertaining.

While the Fury celebration party was presumably in full swing the eyes of British boxing fell on Montreal where James DeGale was making the first defence of his IBF super middleweight title. Huge credit should be given to DeGale for making this trip and as financially rewarding as it no doubt was there is still a risk involved.

Many fans on this side of the Atlantic would have last seen Lucian Bute being utterly dismantled by Carl Froch back in 2012 and would have perhaps expected similar at the hands of Londoner DeGale. The one-sided beat down didn’t materialise and the generous score cards may well have flattered the victor somewhat.

Ahead of the fight I considered the biggest threat to Degale’s nascent title reign would be “Chunky” himself and for large parts of the fight that’s how it seemed. James powered into the contest and bossed the early rounds but as has happened so often the foot came off the gas and Bute was more than happy to take the up invitation and plough forward.

DeGale himself admitted that he had taken rounds off in the middle of the fight and this tactic has cost him dearly in the past. One begins to wonder why this keeps occurring. If DeGale is adopting this style of his own volition, then why isn’t Jim McDonnell tearing strips off him in the corner? If it is a fight plan concocted by McDonnell then it is incredibly risky and it gambles with the career of a very talented fighter.

James DeGale is arguably the most gifted boxer to currently hold a super middleweight world title and could conceivably unify two or three belts. On his game James would handily beat both Fedor Chudinov and Arthur Abraham. He’s too slick, his punches are deceptively hard and he has a decent defence.

In spite of these advantages I never feel 100% confident when DeGale fights. Sky Sports Nick Halling said in commentary on Saturday that you get the impression DeGale too often boxes within himself and it is hard to disagree.

It seems daft to consider a world champion as an unfulfilled talent but you get the impression that there is so much more in the tank with “Chunky”. He seemed to coast through portions of the fight last night and in doing so there is a worry that he may coast through portions of his career especially when he could achieve so much.

George Ogier is part of Boxing Scene's UK team. Follow him on Twitter @george_ogier