As previously reported on BoxingScene.com, Jay Deas claims it was not his decision to throw in the towel during Deontay Wilder’s defeat to Tyson Fury.

The 31-year-old Briton twice knocked down the WBC heavyweight champion before finally claiming victory in the seventh round when the American's corner waved the white flag on Saturday night.

Wilder was incensed with the decision to pull him out of the fight, after being felled in the third and fifth rounds, and wanted to fight on when the fight was halted in the seventh.

It has emerged it was coach Mark Breland –– not head trainer Deas –– who threw in the towel.

Wilder, slipped to 42-1 with 41 quick after losing his unblemished ledger and world title against the former undisputed king, was critical of his team’s decision.

“Things like this happen. The best man won tonight,” Wilder, who was taken to hospital, said immediately after defeat. “I was ready to go out on my shield and I wish my team would have let me do that.

“I had a lot of things going on, coming into this fight. My leg was already weak coming in, due to other little things. I make no excuses. I just wish that my corner would have let me go out on my shield. I'm a warrior and that's what I do. No excuses. We come back stronger.”

Frank Warren, promoter for Fury, expected his man to come away with a knockout win.

"I have been doing this a long time and that was the best performance I have seen from a British boxer in the ring. I always believed Tyson would stop him and it is the best moment for me, selfishly, but it is also for him and his family," Warren told the 5 Live Boxing podcast.

"It is the best comeback in sport, not boxing. He was in the depths of despair and to pull himself back from that is the most amazing thing. It is special."