Tyson Fury: record, next fight and profile →
Eddie Hearn, promoter for Anthony Joshua, has serious doubts that Tyson Fury will retire from the sport. This past Saturday night, Fury retained the WBC heavyweight title when he knocked out Dillian Whyte in the sixth round, before a crowd of 94,000 at Wembley Stadium in London.
Dillian Whyte wouldn’t go as far as to state that Tyson Fury’s right uppercut didn’t hurt him Saturday night at Wembley Stadium. Whyte did, however, contend during an interview Monday with Sky Sports that Fury’s subsequent shove had a dramatic impact on the outcome of their WBC heavyweight title fight in London.
For most of the last quarter of the twentieth century, the heavyweight title scene was often confined to casino cities like Las Vegas and Atlantic City, far removed from the spectacle of decades past with crowds assembled at places like the Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium, or Soldiers Field.
Tyson Fury sounded elated to Bob Arum on the other end of the phone Saturday night. Fury’s 90-year-old co-promoter couldn’t attend his huge fight at Wembley Stadium because he contracted COVID-19 last week and wasn’t allowed to travel to London. Upon speaking to Fury soon after his impressive sixth-round knockout of Dillian Whyte, Arum “of course” expects the unbeaten WBC heavyweight champion to fight again.
It was a finish to remember, an uppercut for the ages. Tyson Fury has never had a reputation as a big puncher, but he will never have thrown a sweeter punch than the one that left Dillian Whyte sprawling on the canvas in front of 94,000 people at Wembley Stadium. Never has Fury seemed such a dominant force
By Corey Erdman - Tyson Fury stood in the hallway of Wembley Stadium flanked by dozens of team members and even more people dressed like knights ready to play a part in his theatrical entrance. Inside the arena, a video of Don McLean performing American Pie spliced together with Fury’s career highlights played as 94,000 people sang along. From the hallway where Fury and his team stood, the breadth of the singalong couldn’t be fully appreciated, but the Fury squad had their own.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is hoping that his former foe, Deontay Wilder, is given the ability to fight for the vacant WBC strap. On Saturday night, before a record crowd of 94,000 at Wembley Stadium, Fury knocked out mandatory challenger Dillian Whyte in the sixth round.
Tyson Fury says his win over Dillian Whyte is definitely the end of his career – he definitely thinks so anyway. There was no sense of changing his mind about retiring as he took off his T-shirt to sit down for the post-fight press conference. But neither was there a formal announcement of retirement.
Dillian Whyte feels he was neck and neck with Tyson Fury for most of their fight. Whyte, the mandatory challenger – and heavy underdog – for Fury’s WBC heavyweight title, however, ended up falling way short of bucking the odds in their scheduled, all-British 12-round title bout at Wembley Stadium in London last Saturday.
WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury admitted that the uppercut that finished Dillian Whyte in the sixth round was a punch he had been looking for. He said he set the punch up by throwing a series of one-twos that Whyte partially blocked, but by expecting the one-two, Whyte’s guard was coming upwards, leaving space for the shot underneath.