- Fury (273lb) will have 42lb advantage against Wilder (231lb)
- ‘Round 12 has been living in his head for a while’, says Wilder
- Fury suffered a heavy knockdown in 12th round of first fight
There was a time when Deontay Wilder would have been one of his country’s most famous sportsmen, which makes the 34-year-old among the biggest casualties of boxing’s retreat toward the margins of the American mainstream.
There is no good reason why Wilder, a crowd-pleasing knockout merchant in a chiselled 6ft 7in package who is unbeaten in 43 professional fights, with 41 wins inside the distance, should not be a household name by now. He has made 10 heavyweight title defences in the five years since winning the WBC’s version of the championship, one more than Mike Tyson and Joe Frazier in their reigns.
Written by Bryan Armen Graham in Las Vegas
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/feb/21/fury-v-wilder-ii-wilder-says-12th-round-knockdown-will-be-in-furys-mind under the title “Fury v Wilder II: Fighters unveil bulked-up physiques on eve of rematch”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
