Ben Fury

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And Fury made it look simple. Making full use of his superior reach and demonstrating excellent mobility and head movement, the challenger was a conundrum that Klitschko never even came close to solving. A journalist from Ireland put it best: "Thank God he doesn't call himself Irish any more." Alas for the English journalists present, Fury, who does have Irish links, was born and bred in Manchester. Yet his previous comments on Joshua are intriguing. Davison told ESPN Fury has "too much skill" for Joshua in December 2018. He added: "Joshua is a big man. He's got height, weight, can punch and can box a bit. He's a dangerous man and a threat. He showed he's got heart but whatever he comes and throws at Tyson, Tyson will have an answer for." When you fight and defeat the enemy waves, you gain Experience Points. You can use those to upgrade your abilities and become a stronger opponent against your foes. It looked like he was slipping into gear, only for Wallin to turn what could have been a boxing exhibition into an up-close, blood-filled tussle.

Also in this week's podcast, British Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith said it "made sense" for the sport to take a circuit breaker in January. Davison recently made a video analysis of the first fight in his role as an analyst for BT Sport, and is hoping his former charge will heed some of his advice. But he knows the Lancastrian well enough to realise that it might be a case of having to expect the unexpected. A hard hook on the ropes in the ninth began another onslaught, with Fury glaring into the eyes of his resilient rival on the bell like a man possessed. It was not how a great champion is supposed to go out, fiddled out of his belts in his own manor. Klitschko has a rematch clause but it might be that he goes over the tapes with his team and decides that, at 39, he's got little left to give.Fury's detractors - and they are legion - call him far worse. Usually hiding behind online pseudonyms, tough guys that they are. But it is often difficult to defend him, especially when he resorts to homophobia and casual death threats. external-link It's the worst I've seen from Tyson," he told BT Sport Box Office. "He has to be honest and say things are not right. For a man to be in that condition after eight weeks camp, it looked like he had nothing after round two. We started to get a lot of positive tests end of November and beginning of December. After the weekend of 18-19 December it went sky high. At that point I knew we had an issue," Smith said. The BBBofC announced all events would be postponed so medics could concentrate on the fight against Covid-19.

Fury was taken to hospital after the fight, with promoter Frank Warren confirming he was set to have micro-surgery on the cuts - one above the eye and one on the eye-lid.The downside for Fury is he will inevitably attract criticism over the fact only 8,249 of the 20,000 seats at the arena were filled. If I had my way, the lot [Tyson's team] would be gone. If they keep that team that will be his career [gone]."

Rarely has Fury looked so beat up and bruised, with blood dripping from his forehead, nose and mouth. As he sat on his stool before the ninth he had a look of confusion on his face – and perhaps even realisation that his unbeaten record might be toppled by a man who had never boxed professionally before. So when I woke up on Sunday morning, I thought: 'This better not be a dream and I still have to fight tomorrow.' But I finally came round and said: 'New heavyweight champion of the world!' That's got a nice ring to it." "I lost the battle but the fighter is still in me," said Klitschko Those here could have been forgiven for thinking such an entrance may have fallen flat with a routine win, and early on it felt like Fury was toying with his opponent - before he found his range with a three-shot combination in the second round.

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When the cuts heal, this will have further developed his engine and ring craft - and ultimately done him no harm at all. What now for Fury? Chris Eubank Jr's all-British middleweight bout with Liam Williams was scheduled for Cardiff on 29 January but is set to be moved to 5 February. Klitschko never throws a lot of punches but his punch statistics against Fury made for very grim reading: 52 landed, and only 18 of them power punches, over 36 minutes of boxing. Fury landed with more shots in 11 of the 12 rounds. The 25-year-old was supposed to have fought fellow Briton David Haye last September, only for the former world champion to pull out a week before the bout with a cut eye. The bout was rescheduled for February, only for Haye to announce his retirement last November, citing a shoulder injury. After the elation, Fury expects to crash. He has been honest in the past about his fits of mental strife and when he closes the door behind him in his home in Morecambe, the mundane nature of everyday life, that great enemy of elite sportsmen and women, will begin to seep in. But the mundane can be an enemy and a friend, because it will hopefully spur Fury on to achieve more great things.

I'm probably a hard person to live with but it's like it or lump it. She gets treated right and she thinks I'm a nice person. I'm not a woman, but to be married to a handsome man like me - a stallion - must be a good feeling." The crowning of Fury will be seen by many as yet more evidence of how low the heavyweight division has fallen. Often uncouth, often outrageous, often embarrassing, Fury does not possess the grace they like to see in a champion. After defeating some enemy hordes, you'll have to fight one of the bounty hunters or Vilgax himself. They are tough, so use your skills and abilities to your advantage and defeat them before they can get to you. It was a punch in the third round that drew blood above the eye and Fury displayed greater urgency when officials began to show concern, switching from patient boxing to planting his feet in a bid to land heavy, destructive shots.In that time Davison helped mastermind Fury's return from depression and obesity to the summit of the heavyweight division; one of the reasons the pair have remained close despite parting company, and why Davison will be in attendance in Las Vegas this weekend. Mexico's Saul 'Canelo' Alvarez has taken this Las Vegas fight night in the past two years, while the likes of Oscar de la Hoya and Floyd Mayweather have filled the coveted fixture in the past. When it was put to him that Klitschko deserved more respect, Fury was unmoved: "This is the fight game. He's an adversary - why would I respect somebody who wants to beat me up?" Put like that, you can see his point.