In ballyhooed a matchup of two towering men for the WBC heavyweight title, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder displayed everything but settled nothing.
Fury, on a steady comeback after his career was nearly derailed two years ago from personal issues, arguably never looked better in his life inside the ring. “The Gypsy King” boxed beautifully behind a rapid-fire jab and confounding feints from the start, giving the slightly shorter Wilder fits. But more importantly, the Brit avoided the vaunted right hand of Wilder throughout and he made him pay for it repeatedly.
Wilder (40-0-1, 39 KOs) had tremendous difficulty in finding a rhythm and was largely relegated to throwing single punches, most of which were easily defended by Fury.