Deontay Wilder: record, next fight and profile →
Nathan Gorman insists there is no bias in his assessment of huge heavyweight showdown on Saturday night when he forecasts Deontay Wilder barely being able to lay a glove on the elusive force that is Tyson Fury.
LOS ANGELES – Speculation persists during fight week that the real reason Tyson Fury moved his training camp last month was because he had difficulty during sparring sessions with fellow British heavyweight Joe Joyce. Fury refuted those rumors during a conference call two weeks ago to promote his fight against Deontay Wilder on Saturday night at Staples Center. Joyce supported the undefeated Fury’s take on what the lineal heavyweight champion considered competitive sparring at Abel Sanchez’s gym in Big Bear Lake, California.
LOS ANGELES – Deontay Wilder wasn’t about to give Tyson Fury credit for the former heavyweight champion’s most meaningful victory. As Wilder went back and forth with his unbeaten challenger during a press conference Wednesday, the defending WBC heavyweight champion made sure to dispute the magnitude of Fury’s upset of Wladimir Klitschko. England’s Fury was a 4-1 underdog against Klitschko, but the 6-feet-9 Brit beat the long-reigning champion by unanimous decision in their 12-round title fight in November 2015.
COME SATURDAY NIGHT in Los Angeles, all the talking and everything else will be over and we are going to find out who the true top man in the heavyweight division really is. Our man Tyson Fury, after two and a half years in the boxing wilderness, will certainly have a spring in his step when he strides into the Staples Centre for his moment of truth against the WBC world champion Deontay Wilder.
By Keith Idec - LOS ANGELES – Seventy-four, ninety-nine. It’s an unnecessarily sneaky way of trying to sell something for $75, in this case the Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury fight Saturday night at Staples Center for Wilder’s WBC heavyweight title. It’s also an indication that pay-per-view boxing events wil...
Tyson Fury will exploit gaps left by a ‘reckless’ Deontay Wilder and can knock out the WBC champion, claims trainer Ben Davison. The lineal heavyweight king has fought only twice since his masterful display against Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf in 2015, but Davison is confident Fury will rise to the occasion and exploit Wilder’s porous defence.
Deontay Wilder faces arguably the toughest test of his 40-fight career when he takes on the former unified champion Tyson Fury in the eighth defence of his WBC crown on December 1 – but confidence is higher around the Bronze Bomber’s camp.
Tony Bellew expects Deontay Wilder to retain his WBC heavyweight title by beating Tyson Fury in Los Angeles this weekend, but the recently-retired cruiserweight hopes he is proved wrong. Wilder puts his strap and his 40-0 record on the line at the Staples Center on Saturday against the former unified heavyweight champion.
Tyson Fury is on the cusp of completing a comeback story worthy of any Hollywood film less than two weeks out from his world title challenge against WBC king Deontay Wilder on December 1. The self-styled Gypsy King appeared to be on the road to greatness after dethroning 10-year reigning heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015, outboxing the veteran Ukrainian to secure an almost-unprecedented landslide decision on German soil.
Wilder, Fury Undercard Final Press Conference stream - SHOWTIME Sports will present live HD Satellite and Internet coverage of fight week events in advance of this Saturday’s WBC Heavyweight World Championship between unbeaten American champion Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KOs) and lineal champion Tyson Fury (27-0, 19 KOs) live on SHOWTIME PPV (9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT) from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles.