Heavyweight contender Tyson Fury says he is absolutely serious about his goal to score a knockout victory over WBC world champion Deontay Wilder.

Fury will challenge Wilder for a second time on February 22 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. They fought to controversial twelve round split draw in December 2018 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Last month, Fury split with the trainer of his last five fights, Ben Davison, and hired SugarHill Steward of the United States.

According to Fury, he brought on Steward because he wanted a certain fighting style to pull off a knockout victory of Wilder.

Because he believes he was robbed in the first contest, Fury wants to end the fight before the distance.

"They had to rob a man who had been out of the ring for three years and they still couldn’t beat him. I’m not coming here for a points decision, I’ve had too many of them – nine of them – I’m coming here for a knockout, I’ve had 21 of them and from the heart that’s what I’m looking to do.‘his is why I employed Sugar Hill. If I didn’t want a knockout, I wouldn’t have hired a Kronk trainer. If I didn’t want a knockout, I’d have kept Ben Davison and working on that herky-jerky style," Fury told Gareth Davies.

Fury claims that he plans to use some very unusual methods to make his hands stronger, like soaking them in petrol every day.

"I was speaking to an old legendary bare-knuckle fighter from the travelling community, he’s called Big Joe Joyce," Fury said.

"He told me about dipping his hands in petrol, to toughen them up. So for this fight I’ll be dipping my hands in petrol for five minutes a day during the last three or four weeks of the training camp to really toughen them up. It worked for him, so I’m going to give it a try."