Lineal world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury went up against the WBC world heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder for his WBC world heavyweight championship back in 2018 on the 1st December. Unfortunately for Fury, they drew and everyone including Fury believed that Fury won that fight on points easy and believe that he won each round apart from the two that he went down in. Since this was a draw, there will be a rematch early next year in February and this will decide who the winner of the WBC world heavyweight championship really is, however Fury has already said what he plans to do.
Throughout the first fight, we knew what Tyson Fury was doing, he was waiting for his opportunities and was waiting to strike his shots instead of going for the knockout blow, he kept a calm head and went for the points victory. Which he should have won, since he out boxed Wilder in every round apart from two where he fell short. He picked out his shots and went to points to hope for the best comeback, but instead had a controversial draw and one of the best comebacks in boxing. Fury has said he is looking to knockout Wilder this time round because he believes that he can knock him out this time and will change his fight style to knock him out and get the win.
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On the other side, Deontay Wilder was just fighting to knock out Tyson Fury, he knew this bout wasn’t going to be easy. So he went straight for the knockout, which was a massive mistake on Wilders part, Fury has never lost and has been knocked down a few times, however now he knows that Fury can get up from a devastating knockout, he will most likely try and win the bout on points instead of via KO. Even though Wilder has managed to knockout 95% of his opponents, he might not be able to knockout the Gypsy King in his own game.
