![]() ![]() In the 10th, Fury capped a series of hard right hands by dropping Wilder with a power punch to the head. It took two men to bring us that."įury returned to his corner after the knockdowns, where trainer "SugarHill" Steward ordered him to find his jab, to keep Wilder’s power shots slightly more at bay while setting up his own. Boxing should be proud of him and Deontay Wilder. He is the standout heavyweight of his generation, bar none. "It’s the best live heavyweight fight I’ve seen," said Fury’s U.K.-based promoter Frank Warren, 69. Riddick Bowe, even the 2017 Joshua comeback TKO of former longtime champion Wladimir Klitschko in front of 90,000 at Wembley Stadium in England – but this was sublime, a battle of wills at the highest level in the sport’s glamour weight class that turned into a pure survival test. It took an arbitrator to rule that Wilder had a right to the contracted third bout. After Fury delayed the bout again by testing positive for COVID-19, their date of destiny arrived.īoxing has given us a slew of amazing Saturday night title fights before this – the first chapters of Evander Holyfield vs. The disdain heightened when Fury moved to fight then-three-belt heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua following pandemic-affected delays. Wilder was driven by revenge following the disappointment of his first defeat, which he blamed on a heavy walk-in costume that he said tired his legs, while also firing his assistant trainer for throwing in the towel and recklessly accusing Fury of fighting with loaded gloves. Whatever we thought about Wilder before … the guy has a big, big heart." "When (Fury) knocked down Wilder in the third (Saturday), I thought the fight was won, that this would be a carbon copy of the last one," Arum said. It was only one round earlier that England’s Fury (31-0-1, 22 KOs) had dropped Wilder, exposing the former champion to another case of the wobbly legs that betrayed him in February 2020, when Fury dropped Wilder twice en route to a seventh-round technical knockout. When the chips are down, I always deliver," Fury said after surviving two knockdown punches from Alabama’s Wilder (42-2-1, 41 KOs) during the fourth round. Never, ever," Arum said of Fury-Wilder III while holding himself up by the T-Mobile Arena ring ropes where Fury retained his WBC belt in an epic battle against the former long-reigning champion in a classic that featured five knockdowns and exposed each man’s colossal heart. I have never seen a heavyweight fight that compared to this one. The pair will team up once more for a fight later this year against, as is likely at the time of writing, Anthony Joshua.LAS VEGAS – In measuring whether Tyson Fury’s gripping 11th-round knockout of Deontay Wilder was the greatest heavyweight title fight of all time, there was no one better to ask than Fury’s veteran promoter Bob Arum, who sat ringside for this one and the remarkable 1975 “Thrilla in Manila” that closed the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier trilogy. It’s some sort of heavyweight fate that SugarHill now corners Fury on a permanent basis, and they have the sort of bond that’s crucial for a trainer to get the most out of his fighter. So he had his first chance to spar, and that was his last chance to spar too because who he was sparring didn’t want to spar anymore. I told him to go ahead and change and start working out, and I was watching him work out and he had exceptional movement athleticism for a man of that size.įor me it was like ‘alright that’s pretty good’ but where I’m from I’ve seen people come in and hit the bag and look brilliant, but let’s see how you do when you box. I was introduced to him and he told me who he was, and he mentioned Andy Lee. “They told me there’s this big white boy in the gym talking about he’s going to be the next heavyweight champ … and I just kept working like ‘okay.’ The younger Steward told Boxing King Media about his first meeting with his future fighter. Another man present on Fury’s first visit to the gym was SugarHill – nephew of Emanuel. ![]()
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