Fury vs Wilder 3

DEONTAY WILDER has been urged to ‘man up’ and accept defeat if he has any chance of beating Tyson Fury in their trilogy bout. Fury brilliantly beat Wilder in their February 2020 rematch, after they dramatically drew in 2018.
Tyson Fury beat Deontay Wilder in their February 2020 rematchCredit: Getty
Otto Wallin was beaten by Tyson Fury in 2019Credit: Reuters
But the American, who was dethroned and defeated for the first time, put the loss down to everything but a masterclass from the Gypsy King.
That included his water being SPIKED and Fury boxing with WEIGHTS in his gloves – allegations which Wilder has stuck by but that have never proven.
Otto Wallin, the last man Fury beat before his crowning night over Wilder, has hit out at the Bronze Bomber for refusing to acknowledge his loss.
And he fears it will hold back the former champion from recognising what went wrong and fixing it – playing right into Fury’s hands.
Swedish fighter Wallin, 30, told SunSport: “I think that Fury is going to win again. I find it strange with Wilder, all the excuses.
“That really makes me question, how much can you really improve if you have to keep coming up with excuses?
“I feel like Wilder’s got to man up and take the loss, he lost fair and square to the better man, realise that and start working.”

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Wilder, 35, twice dropped Fury, 33, three years ago in their original but was largely outboxed as it ended all square on the cards.
But in the rematch, Fury caught everyone by surprise as he packed on the pounds to 19st 5lb to go on the offensive.
He scored two knockdowns of his own before winning in round seven.
It came just five months after Fury, all the way down at 18st, was cut against Wallin and narrowly avoided a stoppage loss.
The Swede was moments away from forcing the win, but Fury, who needed 47 stitches after, proved his resilience and grinded out a points decision to remain unbeaten.
After coming so close to causing the mother of all upsets, Wallin has told Wilder to copy his tactics and take the fight to his heavyweight rival.
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He said: “The biggest thing with Wilder is he’s just got to let his hands go and not load up so much, because Fury has good defence.
“For Wilder, use your jab, let your shots go and make it a fight also, you can’t just load up and try to knock him out.
“Fury is a smart fighter, he’s already stopped Wilder before, doesn’t mean he will stop him now, but he’s the favourite for me.”
Since losing to Fury, Wallin has returned with two wins, most recently against Dominic Breazeale, 36.
It followed a period of being swerved at the top of the division, due to the massive scare he the Gypsy King.
But Wallin can force a rematch with Fury and guarantee himself a WBC title shot when he challenges Dillian Whyte, 33, at the O2 Arena on October 30.
I feel like Wilder’s got to man up and take the loss, he lost fair and square to the better man, realise that and start working.Otto Wallin on Deontay Wilder
He said: “This is the perfect opportunity for me with Dillian, I get the interim belt and then Fury will have to fight me. 
“Because after our fight, I haven’t heard him mention my name once, some interviews he calls out 15-20 guys, but never mentions my name.
“I’ve gotten better since that last fight, it was a huge gap in class, I had never fought on that level before. 
“It was my first time, I had only fought one round in 18 months before I fought him and not a lot of people know but I had surgery behind my ear 7-8 weeks before. 
“We were really careful in sparring before that fight but afterwards, with the experience I got and the fights I’ve had now, I’m in a much better space.” 
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FRANK BRUNO has backed a bulky Tyson Fury to ‘do some damage’ to Deontay Wilder in their trilogy fight. Bruno weighed a massive 17st 6lb during his heroic reign as WBC heavyweight champion.
Deontay Wilder was beaten by Tyson Fury in their rematchCredit: AFP
British boxing legend Frank Bruno with his WBC titleCredit: Louis Wood News Group Newspaper Ltd
But Fury in his rematch against Wilder in February 2020 scaled as heavy as 19st 5lb before winning in seven rounds.
American Wilder is a small heavyweight even for Bruno’s era, and could give away as much as FOUR STONE to Fury in their trilogy bout on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
And despite having some of the heaviest hands ever, with a 93 per cent knockout ratio, Bruno warned it is only a matter of time before history repeats itself in Sin City.
He said: “He’s dangerous for the first four to six rounds but then after I think Tyson will weigh him down and do some damage to him. 
“He’s 15 stone Wilder, borderline 16 stone, don’t forget Tyson Fury is coming in 19 stone. 
“That’s four stone over his opponent, and some people moan over one pound on the scale, if you’re a welterweight or middleweight. 

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“If your opponent’s not exactly 11st 6, then you’d have to go and use the sauna. Fury has got that advantage. 
“When he leans on him and jabs him down, that’s when Wilder will know what Tyson Fury’s all about.” 
Fury, 33, drew to Wilder, 35, in 2018 after twice being floored despite dominating the rest of the action.
But in their rematch two years later, he went on the offensive, scoring two knockdowns of his own before the towel was rightfully thrown in.
Fury spoke to Bruno about his two prior fights with Wilder at the launch of Wow Hydrate’s new store in Oxford Street.
He said: “My first fight I was boxing with slick moves, dancing around and all that.
“In round 12 I realised what I had to do in the second fight to beat him.
He’s dangerous for the first four to six rounds but then after I think Tyson will weigh him down and do some damage to him. Frank Bruno on Tyson Fury’s trilogy with Deontay Wildr
“I phoned up Sugarhill Steward and said look I wanna have aggressive style training and I said I want a knock out in this fight.
“I don’t want to box. I want to go knock him out. And he laughed and he said well so do I. I want to knock him out too.
“And I think me and him were the only two people who really believed I was going to knock Wilder out. He is as crazy as me. I’m crazy.
“But he is as crazy as me, every bit as crazy. And we worked on it and we just went straight back to basics. Worked on simple boxing one, two.
“I went in camp with a clear mind, I left everything in England. And I went over there. I had my full team out in Vegas for the full duration.
“And it was a great camp. I was injury-free. Which is the most important thing.”
Frank Bruno pictured with Tyson FuryCredit: Social Media – Refer to Source More

ANTHONY JOSHUA has been told a future fight with Deontay Wilder is his – no matter what the result of his Oleksandr Usyk rematch. Joshua is fighting to regain his belts and possibility his reputation after being dethroned by the brilliantly talented Usyk in September.
Deontay Wilder ahead of his trilogy with Tyson FuryCredit: Alamy
Anthony Joshua after defeat to Oleksandr UsykCredit: PA
A win for AJ would also put him back on track for the undisputed crown, after talks with WBC champion Tyson Fury broke down earlier this year.
Joshua and Fury were initially scheduled to lock horns on August 14 but the latter was ordered by an arbitration judge to battle Deontay Wilder for a third time instead.
Fury, 33, faces Wilder, 35, in a trilogy bout this Saturday night in Las Vegas and the winner will have their eyes on Usyk’s WBA, IBF and WBO belts.
But Wilder’s co-manager Shelly Finkel admitted even in defeat to Usyk again, Joshua would not be left out in the cold.
Finkel told SunSport: “We’d definitely fight him, win or lose.”
Wilder spent the best part of two years failing to agree terms with Joshua, before Fury swooped in to draw and then beat the American.
In that period, AJ has lost the titles to outsider Andy Ruiz Jr won them back again before surrendering the throne once more, this time to Usyk.

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The defiant British superstar wants nothing more than the chance to put things right, like he did against Ruiz, 32, six months after the shock defeat.
But avenging the loss to unbeaten Usyk, 34, will not be so easy and he has faced calls to swerve the rematch and build back another way.
Even rival promoter Bob Arum urged AJ to sit out, allow Fury to challenge Usyk instead, and face the winner for all the marbles after a comeback fight.
But Finkel, who has been with Wilder’s since his 2008 debut, backed Joshua’s decision to go right back into the fire again and admired his courage.
He said: “If I was managing Joshua, a rematch is where I would go. 

“I’m looking out for Deontay, and that’s all I’m looking out for, but I have been a fan of Joshua. He’s been a good representative of the heavyweight division.
“He needs to redeem himself, I don’t think he’s the same fighter he was before the fight with Ruiz and I feel early in this fight he got hit and wobbled by Usyk and that changed everything. 
“He didn’t come forward, he came on a bit in the middle rounds, but the things is he didn’t do what he had to do it win. 
“I think Usyk will be more confident in the next fight but Joshua has a very good opportunity in the rematch. 
“I picked him to win the first fight because of his size and I didn’t think Usyk looked great against either Chazz Witherspoon or Derek Chisora.”
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MILLIONAIRE boxing star and father of eight Deontay Wilder is a man who appears to have it all – but he insists deciding to lace up the gloves was nowhere near his best decision.The Bronze Bomber, 35, is preparing for his highly-anticipated trilogy fight with Tyson Fury in Las Vegas this weekend as he aims to win back the belts he lost during the rematch in February 2020.
Deontay Wilder battles Tyson Fury in a highly-anticipated trilogy fight on Saturday
Fury stole Wilder’s belts after winning the 2020 rematch in Las Vegas
Wilder claims a decision he made while expecting his first child Naieya was bigger than anything to do with boxingCredit: Getty Images
The Bronze Bomber, pictured with fiancée Telli Swift, has eight kids to four different womenCredit: Getty – Contributor
It has been a long journey for the former pancake flipper as he climbed from ‘struggling to make ends meet’ to having the most-feared fist in the business.
Although he may be fearsome inside the ropes, away from the ring he is very much a family man as he looks to provide for his eight kids from four different women.
Wilder had a late start to boxing, taking it up aged 20, and now stands on the verge of greatness if he can KO Fury.
But deciding to take up the sport that would transform his life forever is nothing compared to a life-or-death choice he was forced to make while expecting his first daughter.
Wilder and his then-girlfriend Helen Duncan were poor teenagers when they were told their child would be born with spina bifida.
Speaking to the Daily Mail ahead of his second fight with Fury, Wilder said: “It had been scary first off to know I had a child on the way.

“It was even scarier that this tiny being would be coming into the world with a defect.
“I was so young, holding my whole world in my hands. Suddenly I was facing this huge responsibility for a life which would need my enormous care and attention.
“The doctors told us she would never walk. Told us maybe she would never have a child’s natural ability for learning. They offered us the opportunity to terminate.
“This was the most important decision of my life. To keep her or not to keep her. Thank God I got it right. We just felt she had a right to live.”
Naieye is now 16, and the 6ft 7in Alabama native could not be more delighted with his ‘miracle’ child’s fighting spirit.
Naieya was born with spina bifida, and it took five operations before she could even learn to walkCredit: Showtime

If it wasn’t for his daughter, Wilder says he’d never have got into boxingCredit: Showtime
Wilder said: “Doctors can do all that studying and acquire all that knowledge.
“But what they cannot account for is a miracle. The miracle that is our Naieya.
“She’s not just walking, she’s running. She’s not only going to school, she’s one of smartest girls in her class. So clever. So intelligent.
“The experience with her matured me early. Seeing her overcome adversity so many times inspired me to do the same.
“Even before she was born she taught me the importance of always making the right decisions.
“She’s such a bright spark lighting up my life, as are all my children with their different characters and personalities. I love them all.”
Wilder is now with Telli Swift, his fiancee who will soon become his second wife, and seems to have never been happier with his life.
But despite all the fame and fortune he has accumulated from his fists, he will never forget his days working in his local International House Of Pancakes fast food restaurant as he attempted to boost his family’s income before stepping in the ring.

Wilder’s ferocity in the ring is a far cry from the loving dad he has revealed himself to beCredit: @BRONZEBOMBER// INSTAGRAM
Wilder used to work in his local IHOP restaurant in order to help support his familyCredit: Alamy
He added: “We were always struggling to make ends meet. Living from pay cheque to pay cheque. So I got a job as a server at the local IHOP.
“I used to make pretty good tips. I always kept my station spotless clean. At first people thought I must be a basketball or football player and talked to me about sports.
“Then they wouldn’t sit at any tables but mine and they would tell me very personal things about their lives.
“For some reason they clung to me. It became like having another large family.
“I got my social skills from my mother. She loved talking to people and like her I’m happy to meet people.
“I don’t think I’m better than anyone because I’m the world champion and I’ve got millions in the bank.
“I’m still like everyone else. I had to fight my way up. I always know the price of milk. I’m a people person and I won’t let anyone take real life away from me. No-one.” More

DEONTAY WILDER dropped a retirement bombshell by suggesting he plans to quit boxing after his Tyson Fury trilogy fight.The Bronze Bomber steps back into the ring on Saturday night to try and win back the WBC heavyweight belt he lost last year.
Deontay Wilder could wave goodbye to boxing after this weekend’s fight with Tyson FuryCredit: Getty
But at the age of 35, that could be his 45th and final bout, especially with no rematch clause.
Speaking on the Last Stand Podcast, Wilder said: “I can feel it getting close, retirement.
“I’m seeking one champion, one face, one name.
“The only way I will be able to retire is if I achieve [that].
“The faster I can get that, the faster I can retire and get the hell out of here.”
However, victory for Wilder over Fury would mean he could take on Oleksandr Usyk for the right to become undisputed heavyweight champ if the Ukrainian beats Anthony Joshua again.

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So asked if Usyk is top of his hitlist, the Bronze Bomber said: “Most definitely. I like what Usyk is saying.
“He predicted that I would knock Fury out, he said he had no doubt that he would knock Joshua out and after that he wanted to get straight to it because he’s older and he means business.
“I feel that he’s an honourable man. I think he will stick to his word.
“A lot of people get the belt and then start acting funny with it but with him, he is a warrior and I’m looking forward to it.
“This is it. This is to close the book of me and Fury. This is it.”
Ironically, Fury also hinted he could hang up his gloves after this weekend’s showdown – and therefore never face Joshua.
Speaking on the BBC’s 5 Live podcast, he said: “Listen, I could walk away today and never look at boxing again. I’ve done what I’ve done and it can never be taken away.
How Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder stack up ahead of the trilogy fight
“People would always remember the enigmatic Tyson Fury, the crazy man who fought everybody. Wasn’t bothered about nobody.
“Even the biggest punchers in our generation didn’t faze him. Went across the pond, fought [Wladimir] Klitschko in Germany. 
“No-one can say anything about me other than I did what I did and that’s it and be proud of it.”
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