LAS VEGAS — After watching Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury shove each other as they were doing a staredown Wednesday prior to a news conference at the MGM Grand Garden, Bob Bennett of the Nevada Athletic Commission decided Thursday to prevent the heavyweights from posing for the traditional face-off photo following Friday’s weigh-in.
Wilder, the 42-0-1 WBC champion, will meet Fury, the 29-0-1 lineal champion, in a Fox/ESPN pay-per-view on Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The networks arranged a different sort of news conference on Wednesday, in which play-by-play man Joe Tessitore would interview the two on stage.