WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury revealed that he nearly injured his ankle when he dropped Deontay Wilder in the third round of their trilogy fight.
Fury would get dropped twice in the fourth round, before dropping Wilder in the tenth and then again in the eleventh for the knockout win at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
"When I hit him with an uppercut, bang in the [third] round, dropped him, I nearly broke my ankle," Fury told IFL TV. "I went over on my ankle, my ankle's hurt.
"He would go, It was only a matter of time before he went. He went down first and he went down last and that's all she wrote."
Fury was upset in the aftermath, because Wilder refused to shake his hand or give him any respect when the smoke had cleared.
"I went to say well done to him and he wouldn't have any of it, the man's a sore loser and a proper sh!thouse. That's a true heart of a cowardly man, when he won't shake a better man's hand. Not once but three times I've beaten him," Fury said.
After getting stopped in the seventh round of their February 2020 rematch, Wilder made serious allegations against Fury - including a claim that Fury loaded his gloves with 'egg weights.'
Unlike his controversial position when he tasted defeat in the second fight, Wilder offered no excuses for his loss in the trilogy encounter.
“I did my best, but it wasn’t good enough tonight. I’m not sure what happened," Wilder said. "I know that in training he did certain things, and I also knew that he didn’t come in at 277 pounds to be a ballet dancer. He came to lean on me, try to rough me up and he succeeded.”
