In Las Vegas, the “Gipsy King” beat for the second time in Affilée Deontay Wilder, by K.-O. At 11th round.
Le Monde with AFP
“I said it and I repeat tonight: I am the best in the world.” Tyson Fury is proud. Tyson Fury fell twice, but he sent to the carpet of Fontay Wilder three times, retaining his WBC heavyweight belt, by KO at 11 e round.
At the end of a Dante confrontation Saturday, October 9 at the T-Mobile Arena de Las Vegas, who will remain in the annals of the boxing, an umpteenth hook of the right of the British – there were so much counted them more at this stage – was right of the American we felt more and more tested, and who was showing foolish courage to stay in the ring.
undefeated in 32 fights
The British of 33, always undefeated in 32 fights, including a draw in December 2018 against the American he had then beaten in February 2020, was once again dominant for their third confrontation. The “Gipsy King”, however, also fell twice on the ground, but always grew.
This time, he went upon having been pushed into his retrenchments like never. Arrived in Centurion costume, with on the chef a red-ridden headset, the Mancunian was the first to do really badly, placing, already, a hook of the right on the ear of his rival then a Uppercut on the left which have dropped Wilder.
Wilder, who had made his entry into a stage dressed in a red fur coat and a Nigerian-inspired mask, quickly found the resources to do what he does best in the world, from the world. Next Recovery: Place your strapping right. Fury cashed him full skull and it had to turn terribly inside because he ended up at the carpet. He returned after a hook on the neck that sent it forward, before being saved by the gong.
But Fury, who had already fallen twice in 2018 and had been raised each time, redone before attacking more beautiful. He dominated the following rounds by placing his left-right sequences, and Wilder seemed more and more exhausted, even if he never refused the shot.
At 10 e Round, Fury returned to the ground Wilder, again from his hook of the right to the temple. With the energy of despair, in a nearly second state, Wilder replied and made the British tangled, who was standing in the ropes and told him of the glove striking his own head “go, tap still”. It was finally in this e resumed that he knew how to finish the work, the terrible fall against Wilder land did not leaving no room for doubt.
125, 6 kg on the ring
In the end, although never been as heavy on a ring (125.6 kg, or 17.7 kg more than Wilder and its 107.9 kg), instilling doubt on its form of form the Eve in the weighing, Fury has displayed a flamboyant boxing and roughly effective.
Because the teaching of this confrontation is that its preparation, leaded by the COVID-19 that it contracted this summer, leading to a postponement of the fight, will have been only power-oriented, in the service of A technique already known to that of the American. Fury had announced the color promising to send Wilder to the ground “as if he took a 36 tons in the buffet”.
Paid strategy, under the eyes of some VIPs like the old stars of the NBA Magic Johnson and Shaquille O’Neal. All in front of 15 820 spectators, despite the notable absence of the strong British colony that usually presss Las Vegas to follow its exploits but has been prevented because the United States will reopen their borders to travelers vaccinated against CVIV-19 that early November.
Fury can now turn to a potential unification of the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, who created a huge surprise last month by beating by unanimous decision Anthony Joshua to seize WBA, WBO and IBF belts. Unless there is a revenge between these two boxers.
For Wilder, 35 years old (2 defeats, 42 wins, 1 draw), this new failure must be terribly hard to cash, so he gave everything he had. To the point of the question of his future as a professional boxer.