By Wally Downes in Las Vegas
ROUND 1
”We are Sparta” Fury roared as he left the dressing room flanked by his security guard, brothers and corner team.
Dressed like a Poundland king, complete with Burger King crown, he was carried out on a throne pushed along by beautiful women dressed as very glamorous gladiators.
The song the avid mental health campaigner emerged to was Crazy by Patsy Cline, the lyrics alone were starting to worry some people.
In the starkest possible contrast, Wilder made his ring walk looking like Teenage Mutant Turtles enemy Shredder had been dragged through a diamond mine and was fuming about it.
Fury kept to all of his promises, he dashed across the ring and threw close to a dozen big right hands and lead left hooks.
Wilder warned him off with two of his won but the Brit dominated the rounds and always made the champ box on the backfoot where he is least comfortable with.It was a dream start.
ROUND 2
Even Fury’s jab was spiteful, Wilder had his head jolted back by one of the stiffest he has ever thrown as soon as the second started.
But the American fired off two rights that calmed the crowd that had begun singing the challenger’s name and abusing Wilder with cries of “You Big Dosser”
Both men landed firm one-two straight combinations and Fury ended the stanza well on top, barrelling Wilder into the corner and wrestling him briefly.
ROUND 3
Fury kept it up as the third started, Wilder had almost never looked so vulnerable.
A looping Firy right hook had the one-sided crowd going again, all of Fury’s doubters were eating their words.
And he smashed him to the floor in round three, it was amazing.
A jab and right hand to the temple dropped Wilder to the deck. His senses were scrambled and he was back on the canvas seconds
Ref kenny Bayless called it a slip but he was still stunned from the Fury masterclass and rocking all over the MGM
ROUND 4
Fury started the round well with a right uppercut on the inside but Bayless split up the grappling again.
A hapless Wilder was back down again in the fourth but it was called another slip, this was Bambi On Ice, a deer to the slaughter.
Yes he was unbalanced as he skated aimlessly around the ring but he was also battered and bruised and in too deep. Wilder still in a fog, his skinny legs betraying him.
One late right hand in the session reminded Fury of the danger but he was still so groggy from going down that it was an off-balance lunge more than a trademark punch.
ROUND 5
Fury roared out again in sensational style, landing a big right hand. Wilder was totally defenceless, it was almost unfair, this terrifying champion was being slaughtered.
And he was dropped again with a perfect left hook to the body, the drowning champ beat the count easily but he was spent.
Fury was now toying with his food, leaning all over him and pummelling him so freely. Wilder was a ghost.
The Gypsy King was old-manning the beast three years his senior then Bayless warned Fury over holding and leaning over his prey.
ROUND 6
Another instant serving of Fury genius, Wilder back on the ropes getting slapped and mauled and manhandled but the three stone stronger.
Fury had every right to chill out, to get on his bike and score points from afar, he could have coasted. Instead he was relentless, nasty, sensational.
The shot that ended the round was another Fury left hook that had Wilder using the ropes to hold himself up almost tragically.
ROUND 7
In the break, before the seventh, you could see how horribly Wilder’s ear had swelled from a right clouting.
Trainer Jay Deas was surely warning him he was close to being pulled out of his one-sided hammering.
One chopping Wilder right grazed Fury’s shaved head but that scorching power had now vanished.
Wilder was then pulled out, the white towel of surrender hurled in soaked in Wilder’s blood.
The place erupted. It was magnificent.
Wilder and all of Fury’s doubters were battered from pillar to post.
Wilder’s team were left nursing a man with a string of injuries from the same man he had constantly accused of being pillow fisted.
It was everything Fury had promised and so much more.
Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
