Tyson Fury: I'm Gonna Run Over Wilder As If I'm An 18-Wheeler And He's A Human Being

Tyson Fury wasn’t worried about giving away his game plan.

The unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion told Deontay Wilder and everyone else exactly what he was going to do before their rematch. Most people didn’t believe Fury when he said he’d take the fight to boxing’s most dangerous puncher and knock him out, yet the 6-feet-9, 270-pound Fury overwhelmed Wilder with pressure and physicality, dropped him twice and stopped the former champion in the seventh round of a stunningly one-sided bout.

Fury declared that he’ll walk right through Wilder again during their third fight July 24 at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. The brash British boxer is even more confident entering this third meeting than he was before their rematch because he has had much more time to prepare with his trainer, Javon “Sugar Hill” Steward, who will work Fury’s corner for the second time.

Fury also predicted that he’ll stop Wilder earlier this time than he did in February 2020 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. Their rematch ended when Wilder’s former assistant trainer, Mark Breland, threw in the towel during the seventh round to prevent Wilder from taking too much punishment.

“I’ll tell you how I see it – and I give me game plan away the first time because he wasn’t good enough to do anything about it,” Fury said. “And I’ll do the same thing this time cuz he’s not good enough to do anything about it. Deontay Wilder’s a one-trick pony. He’s got one-punch power. We all know that. Great. But what I’m gonna do to Deontay Wilder this time, is I’m gonna run him over as if I’m an 18-wheeler and he’s a human being.

“And I guarantee you he does not go past where he did before. Because before I only had five or six weeks of practicing what I was gonna do to him. This time I’ve had 18 months of practicing what I’m gonna do to him. So, I anticipate it’s gonna be like an 18-wheeler running over somebody. And that’s what you’re gonna see.”

An extremely confident Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs) doesn’t believe Wilder’s new head trainer, Malik Scott, can make much of a difference for the 35-year-old knockout artist, either. Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) replaced longtime head trainer, Jay Deas, with Scott, a retired heavyweight Wilder knocked out in the first round of their fight in March 2014.

Most oddsmakers have installed Fury as a 3-1 favorite to defeat Wilder again in their ESPN/FOX Sports pay-per-view main event.

Keith Idec is a senior writer/columnist for BoxingScene.com. He can be reached on Twitter @Idecboxing.