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I’m thinking ‘no’.
For those who don’t follow boxing, the Heavyweight Title is on the line tonight. Deontay Wilder is a towering 6’7” with crazy power. In his professional career he’s fought 44 bouts and ended 41 of them by knocking out the other guy. He ends people. He’s also the underdog in this fight.
The heavyweight champion is Tyson Fury who is an even bigger 6’9” and outweighs Wilder by 40 pounds. Tyson Fury is the same stature as Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the actor who played Gregor Clegane ‘The Mountain’ on Game of Thrones.
This isn’t little 5’10” Mike Tyson versus slightly less little 6’1” Evander Holyfield.
This is the 3rd fight between Fury and Wilder. The first one ended in a draw but Tyson Fury said afterwards that in the late rounds he discovered a serious flaw in Deontay Wilder’s boxing style. During the second fight Tyson Fury proved that he had indeed discovered a flaw and beat the snot out of Wilder for 7 rounds before the fight was stopped.
Tyson Fury was very public about exactly what flaw Deontay Wilder has. With his height and power, Wilder’s opponents almost always fight going backwards to stay away from that nasty right hand. It resulted in Wilder only being good fighting forwards, but whenever Fury would be the aggressor and force Wilder to fight going backwards, Deontay Wilder’s form fell apart.
Wilder has undoubtedly been training out that weakness. The question that will be answered tonight is if that training was enough. I’m thinking no and that Tyson Fury will again overpower him. Is there anyone thinking Deontay Wilder wins or even makes it all 12 rounds?
For those who don’t follow boxing, the Heavyweight Title is on the line tonight. Deontay Wilder is a towering 6’7” with crazy power. In his professional career he’s fought 44 bouts and ended 41 of them by knocking out the other guy. He ends people. He’s also the underdog in this fight.
The heavyweight champion is Tyson Fury who is an even bigger 6’9” and outweighs Wilder by 40 pounds. Tyson Fury is the same stature as Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, the actor who played Gregor Clegane ‘The Mountain’ on Game of Thrones.
This isn’t little 5’10” Mike Tyson versus slightly less little 6’1” Evander Holyfield.
This is the 3rd fight between Fury and Wilder. The first one ended in a draw but Tyson Fury said afterwards that in the late rounds he discovered a serious flaw in Deontay Wilder’s boxing style. During the second fight Tyson Fury proved that he had indeed discovered a flaw and beat the snot out of Wilder for 7 rounds before the fight was stopped.
Tyson Fury was very public about exactly what flaw Deontay Wilder has. With his height and power, Wilder’s opponents almost always fight going backwards to stay away from that nasty right hand. It resulted in Wilder only being good fighting forwards, but whenever Fury would be the aggressor and force Wilder to fight going backwards, Deontay Wilder’s form fell apart.
Wilder has undoubtedly been training out that weakness. The question that will be answered tonight is if that training was enough. I’m thinking no and that Tyson Fury will again overpower him. Is there anyone thinking Deontay Wilder wins or even makes it all 12 rounds?
