Tyson Fury’s KO: The Bloody Belt Fight

Tyson Fury had similarly bullied Wilder for the majority of their first meeting in December 2018, before two sensational, late knockdowns salvaged a split draw.

In addition to the ‘W’ and the WBC belt, Tyson Fury came into Sunday’s heavyweight rematch with two more desires: to knock Deontay Wilder out, and a taste of the American’s blood.

Outrageously enough, he got the second. In a moment sure to be immortalised in the world of memes, Fury pushed Wilder against the ropes in the sixth round and licked the blood off his neck.

He was close to knocking Wilder out clean in the next round too, before the defending champion’s corner threw in the towel for a defeat by TKO stoppage.
“Why did you do that?,” Wilder, discombobulated but still standing, lashed out at his trainers, and calmed down seconds later.
The answer was simple. Wilder, never defeated in 11 years and WBC champ for five, was simply outclassed.

A right sent Wilder crashing down in the third, a left to the body earned another knockdown in the fifth, and the straight barrage in the corner stopped the fight in the seventh.
The undefeated Fury won the only belt missing from his resume and became the first boxer to end two 10+ title defence reigns.

Prizefighters, especially of the heavier variety, are obligated to talk about “knockouts”
and “finishing” their opponents. But winning on points was out of question for Fury.

Wilder was successfully attacking Fury’s body as well. In fact, even though he was on the backfoot from the opening bell,
Wilder had his moments, most notably in the close second round where he matched Fury jab-for-jab.

“The only reason I’m with Sugar Hill is because I need a knockout in this fight,” Fury said. “If I was looking to nick a points win, I’d have stuck with Ben.”

Fury was also irked that Wilder, he-of-Thor’s-hammer-for-a-right-hand, didn’t put much stock in the Brit’s power. So he bulked up, from 256.5 pounds in the first fight to 273 on Sunday. It not only increased the firepower, but helped Fury pile on the pressure on Wilder.

The accurate shots hurt Wilder, but it was the umpteen clinches that drained the American. Fury, two inches taller at 6’9, leaned on Wilder and forced him to carry the extra bulk for most of the fight, to the extent of drawing referee’s ire and a point deduction in the fifth.

Also sapping were the body shots. It was the clubbing left to the midsection in the fifth that sent Wilder down for the second time, but Fury had been punishing the body from the second round onward.

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