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I’m no boxing aficionado but todays title fight has really caught my imagination with both these blokes stories so I went had a look into it.
Deontay Wilder first stepped into a boxing gym at the age of 19/20 to try and increase his income to pay hospital bills for his daughter with spinabifida
In three years he was at the Olympics and boxed for the Silver medal, losing and taking home the Bronze turned Professional to become “The Bronze Bomber”.
Won his first title 2012 and won the World title 2015 and defended it 10 times.
A Fairy tale story.
He’s stepped into the ring 77 times as an amateur and professional and boxed 151 rnds as a professional with a 98% knockout rate, worth noting of his 44 professional bouts 30 of them haven’t made it to the end of rnd 3.
He has been described as the hardest straight right ever.
Tyson Fury
Grew up in a caravan with his family the son of a bare knuckles champion fighter and married to his childhood sweetheart who is another “Gypsy” who’s father and Uncle are both bare knuckle fighters and Champs.
Couldn’t get to the Olympics as English or Irish but had a 31-4 amateur career and turned Professional at 20.
It’s pretty well documented his spiral after winning against Klitschko so I won’t bother but that’s a pretty incredible story.
He’s stepped into the ring 66 times and has boxed 202 professional rounds and has been knocked down 4 times.
Only 9 bouts have been ended before the end of rnd 3.
Going back over the two previous fights, the first Fury outlanded Wilder in 9 of the 12 rounds but was knocked down twice and the fight was called a draw.
Reading some reviews of the fights in the first fight and in terms of winning rounds it was 9-3 in Fury’s favour.
The second fight even if you give Wilder one of the first two rnds it’s 6-1 in favour of Fury so all up in the rnds they’ve faced off it’s 15-4.
Personally I hope this is another bout like the first and I hope it’s a great spectacle.
Fury to win…unless he gets knocked out.
Deontay Wilder first stepped into a boxing gym at the age of 19/20 to try and increase his income to pay hospital bills for his daughter with spinabifida
In three years he was at the Olympics and boxed for the Silver medal, losing and taking home the Bronze turned Professional to become “The Bronze Bomber”.
Won his first title 2012 and won the World title 2015 and defended it 10 times.
A Fairy tale story.
He’s stepped into the ring 77 times as an amateur and professional and boxed 151 rnds as a professional with a 98% knockout rate, worth noting of his 44 professional bouts 30 of them haven’t made it to the end of rnd 3.
He has been described as the hardest straight right ever.
Tyson Fury
Grew up in a caravan with his family the son of a bare knuckles champion fighter and married to his childhood sweetheart who is another “Gypsy” who’s father and Uncle are both bare knuckle fighters and Champs.
Couldn’t get to the Olympics as English or Irish but had a 31-4 amateur career and turned Professional at 20.
It’s pretty well documented his spiral after winning against Klitschko so I won’t bother but that’s a pretty incredible story.
He’s stepped into the ring 66 times and has boxed 202 professional rounds and has been knocked down 4 times.
Only 9 bouts have been ended before the end of rnd 3.
Going back over the two previous fights, the first Fury outlanded Wilder in 9 of the 12 rounds but was knocked down twice and the fight was called a draw.
Reading some reviews of the fights in the first fight and in terms of winning rounds it was 9-3 in Fury’s favour.
The second fight even if you give Wilder one of the first two rnds it’s 6-1 in favour of Fury so all up in the rnds they’ve faced off it’s 15-4.
Personally I hope this is another bout like the first and I hope it’s a great spectacle.
Fury to win…unless he gets knocked out.
