It was not a pretty night for Tuscaloosa’s Deontay Wilder.
What was billed was a highly anticipated boxer-versus-puncher battle. What we got instead was the full-fledged evolution of Tyson Fury into a boxer-puncher a la Anthony Joshua. We got a one-sided beatdown. And, in a fight where Wilder’s power was billed as the one to watch, we got to see him outboxed, harmlessly land few power punches, and show a suspect jaw that had not been there for the previous half-decade.
The recap is fairly grisly, so it shall be perfunctory.
Both men were fighting at much heavier weights: Wilder at 231 and Fury at a near-porcine 279.