Tyson Fury pulled off one of boxing’s biggest upsets in recent memory last Saturday when he defeated Wladimir Klitschko in Dusseldorf, Germany, to end the Ukrainian’s lengthy reign as heavyweight champion.
While it wasn’t an especially enthralling performance, Fury was more active and consistently beat his 39-year-old opponent to the punch to capture a unanimous verdict. If the 27-year-old British boxer had lost as many expected, his career might have taken a different turn.
Bellator President Scott Coker recently told Sherdog.com that negotiations to bring Fury to the Viacom-owned organization would have become “extremely serious” had he been vanquished by Klitschko.