![]() We also get an intriguing 10-rounder on the undercard between two unbeaten heavyweight prospects. Under 7.5 rounds is a shade under even money and looks a play under the circumstances, while 11/4 on Fury winning between rounds 1 – 6 also looks value. He has nothing to lose and therefore has a puncher’s chance, but the pick is for Fury to bully and walk the American down again and force a stoppage inside schedule. As ‘Big John’ Fury – never shy when it comes to making a big fight prediction in a battle involving his son – memorably put it during one of the recent BT Sport preview shows: “He’s going to mentally dissolve like butter in front of a fire”.įew professionals ever really come back from the type of beating Wilder took in that second fight. I’m not sure Wilder is made of the same stuff. ![]() The fight game is as much about psychology as it is physiology. He has the size but just as importantly now the confidence to know he can do a job on Wilder. However while Fury is definitely a more skilled boxer, he also knows now he can walk Wilder down and hurt him. The pair have shared just under 19 rounds so far, and of those you can say that Wilder has definitely won only two (those being rounds 9 and 12 of their first fight). Stylistically he presents a style which Wilder has found hard to fathom over two fights to this point. There is a school of thought which states Fury simply outboxes the American and just makes sure he doesn’t get hit with a bomb. Is he really going to figure out how to fight going backward by hooking up with Scott, a mediocre heavyweight gatekeeper not known for his elusiveness? Unlikely. However, Wilder doesn’t know how to fight going backward and was all at sea in that last fight against Fury, where he took a sustained and fearful beating. If Fury takes his eye off the ball, you cannot rule out a scenario where ‘The Bronze Bomber’ nails him to the canvas with a big right. It’s widely accepted that Wilder is one of the hardest heavyweight hitters of all time. Scott is a long-time friend of Wilder, but it remains to be seen how much he can improve him at the venerable age of 35. Wilder has since assembled a new team and new trainer Malik Scott reckons his charge can get the job done inside five rounds this weekend. Trainer Mark Breland’s reward for rescuing his charge was the sack, amid frankly scandalous accusations of disloyalty, while Wilder has also talked about his water being spiked with muscle relaxers and claimed that Fury’s gloves had been tampered with. ![]() ![]() In February 2020, at the MGM Grand in Vegas, Fury dominated a bewildered ‘Bronze Bomber’, systematically beating him up before the American’s corner mercifully threw in the towel in round seven. If the first fight left us with many unanswered questions, the outcome of the second fight was so conclusive, it is perhaps surprising that Wilder has elected to go again. Instead, he had to settle for a majority draw on the cards. And but for two knockdowns (one in round 9 and one in round 12) he would have won. In one of the more memorable heavyweight title fights of recent times, Fury boxed brilliantly against ‘The Bronze Bomber’, dictating the action for long spells. The road to Fury vs Wilder 3īut how did we get here? In December 2018 Fury signed to meet a then unbeaten Wilder in Los Angeles. This fight is a rare exception to that rule, a quality main event complete with a stacked undercard. But perhaps the chief culprit for the noble art’s retreat from the mainstream over the past 30 years is the simple sad fact that public demand is rarely met when it comes to promoters making the best fights boxing can possibly make. It may not quite have the feel of Evander Holyfield v Riddick Bowe, less still Muhammad Ali v Joe Frazier, but this weekend’s heavyweight trilogy fight between Fury and Wilder is still a must-see event for boxing fans.Ī confusing plethora of ‘world’ titles and a “laissez-faire” attitude to drug cheats are two huge problems facing boxing right now. ‘The Gypsy King’ casually sits down at any table in the world knowing he has the cojones and the ring smarts to be victorious regardless of how the cards are dealt. While some of the biggest names in the sport, such as Floyd Mayweather Jr and now Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez ensure the deck is always stacked in their favour each time they play, WBC and lineal heavyweight champion Fury is different. Standing in his way is the imposing figure of Tyson Fury (30-0-1). There’s nothing quite like a big fight week in Las Vegas, a place of hopes and broken dreams.ĭeontay Wilder (42-1-1) rolls the dice this weekend at T-Mobile Arena with his career at elite level now very much in the last-chance saloon. Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder 3 has been a long time coming, but on Saturday night the two will finally lock horns for the WBC, Ring magazine and lineal world heavyweight titles and we have expert tips and predictions.
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