Deontay Wilder vs. The fight ended in a controversial split draw, with the scorecards at — for Wilder, — for Fury which was incorrectly announced as — , and — The potential match up between Wilder and Fury had been talked about and promoted for several years prior to the fight, including by the two fighters themselves on social media. The pair's first encounter had taken place off camera at the Motorpoint Arena in Sheffield in April , where Wilder knocked out Audley Harrison on the undercard of Amir Khan vs. Julio Diaz , with both Wilder and Fury promising each other a fight in the future. Wilder became the first American heavyweight world champion in nearly a decade in January , after defeating Bermane Stiverne via unanimous decision in Las Vegas to pick up the WBC title, the only world heavyweight title at the time that was not held by the reigning champion Wladimir Klitschko. Wilder made the third defence of his title in January against Artur Szpilka at the Barclays Center in New York , a fight in which Fury was in attendance. At the end of the fight after Wilder had knocked out Szpilka in devastating fashion, in an attempt to build a future fight Fury jumped into the ring and there was a face-to-face confrontation between the two men, this time in front of the onlooking crowd and a live television audience. Fury grabbed the microphone and told Wilder, "There's only one Tyson Fury, what you got to say about that, Deontay? You're a bum!
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Does Tyson Fury need to fight Deontay Wilder?
In the first bout, Fury and Wilder fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in December After suffering his stoppage loss, Wilder exercised his contractual option for an immediate rematch. Initially a date in October was targeted, and then later pushed back to the tentative date of December 19th. The clock is ticking!! I'm not gonna wait forever!!! The biggest issue with staging the trilogy fight is figuring out the financial aspects of the contest.
Should Fury win the third fight, there will be no doubt that he is the better boxer among the two. And if Deontay Wilder wins, there will probably be a fourth fight. Nevertheless, the bout is months away. A couple of weeks ago, sources claimed that the duo will most likely clash on December 19, However, the British boxer is growing impatient.
Deontay Wilder vs. Fury won the bout by seventh-round technical knockout TKO. The first fight had ended in a controversial split draw. The fight was a rematch after the controversial split decision draw between Wilder and Fury on December 1, Out of 27 prominent boxing journalists, 15 scored Fury as the winner of the first bout, 3 scored it for Wilder, and 9 scored it as a draw. After the bout, there were calls for an immediate rematch. The WBC announced in February that there would not be an immediate rematch as Fury signed a contract with ESPN and Top Rank that meant the negotiations would be more difficult as the rematch would be a co-promotion, of which there had only been two before: Lennox Lewis vs. Mike Tyson in and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Manny Pacquiao in
