Veteran trainer Teddy Atlas believes Tyson Fury used the old boxing logic of 'bully the bully' when he squared off with Deontay Wilder in their rematch, last month at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Fury came forward and let his hands go, taking the fight to Wilder from the first round. Wilder was dropped twice and stopped in the seventh round.

They fought to a controversial twelve round split draw in the first meeting, in December 2018.

There will be a trilogy fight, potentially in July, as Wilder exercised his contractual right to an immediate rematch.

Since the loss, Wilder blamed his defeat on a heavy ring-walk outfit, which he claims zapped his legs of strength and had him physically spent by the third round.

But Atlas believes a fighter is never fully the same after a loss.

“Yeah, [Wilder] has changed, it’s real,” Atlas told SiriusXM Boxing. “If you want to call it the pink elephant in the room, it’s there, it’s the truth, you do get changed. Deontay even more explicitly.

“He’s been exposed as the guy who technically doesn’t have [the necessary skills], but he can punch. He’s had that and it’s pulled him out of the fire many times but this time, he also showed, bringing up Tyson, I think there’s some relevance to that, he showed that he’s a bully.

“I’m not here to knock Deontay Wilder and I’m not trying to be one of these haters or mean spirited. But I’m just talking about it’s almost inherent that a puncher would be partly a bully because they get their way all of the time.”

“It’s kind of like being a spoiled brat. They’re used to always getting their way. They have the gift but there’s never an argument with a puncher. They always get their way but this time he didn’t get his way.”