Tyson v Wilder - Round 3 - The Closer

Tyson Fury versus Deontay  Wilder - The Closer - End Of!

After two incredible fights which saw Fury lose on points to Wilder in the first clash, before demolishing him in Vegas under a barrage of excuses by Wilder. Either that his costume he wore into the ring was too heavy or that Fury cheated with rabbit punches and finally that his ring side team shouldn't have thrown the towel in, despite probably saving his life, this was going to be the closer, and what a fight it would be. 

Some commentators were even calling it the GOAT!

If you want to copy the links for all 3 fights then here they are:

• Fight 1 - Fury loses on points to Wilder
• Fight 2 - Fury demolishes a tired and poor boxing Wilder in Vegas.
• Fight 3 - Fury finishes the job.

With Fury's potential next fight against Anthony Joshua getting tossed up into the air just a week before due to his loss, the fight in Vegas to end the Fury v Wilder trilogy may not lead to a unification fight but it would still be a great fight to watch between two great UK boxers.

Whether AJ has the skill to train and then beat Usyk before Tyson retires I don't know but you can watch the fight between AJ and Usyk here, and comment on whether you think AJ will have a rematch or go for a fight with Fury instead.

Despite AJ losing to Usyk we have at least one UK heavyweight champion, as once again Tyson Fury managed to beat Deotany Wilder in the ring at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.

Both men went to the ground in what some commentators were calling the best heavyweight fight of the century. In a truly unbelievable third round, Fury dropped Wilder before being dropped two times himself.

And the Bronze Bomber would be knocked to the ground four times before eventually succumbing to defeat in the 11th round before being taken to hospital.

Wilder had certainly improved his skills since being demolished in the 2nd fight, but he still was relying on his strong bomb which worked a couple of times but Fury was the much better boxer taking Wilder to the floor as well with more skill and conventional boxing, and there could no claims of cheating by the Wilder fans after this fight. No heavy walk on suit to be blamed and no towel thrown in by his corner, he was laid out in round 11 and the fight was stopped by the referee. 

Fury v Wilder - Full Fight Replay - From BT Sports

You can watch the amazing 3rd heavyweight title fight between Tyson Fury and Deotany Wilder in Los Vegas right here curtsey of BT Sports.

The Aftermath

Immediately Wilder left the ring and was taken to hospital which was a shame, as it would have been nice to see these two warriors congratulate each other after what has been a brilliant trilogy of fights over the last couple of years. I am sure if the positions were reversed Fury would have gone over to congratulate Wilder, as that is the sort of man he is. 

He even praised Wilder in the interview and his wished him all the best, something I doubt Wilder would have done in the same position. 

So it was a shame not to see these two fighters who had 3 dramatic fights, and nearly going 12 rounds in their last put any differences aside and just hug like we have seen fighters do so many times before. Forgetting all the promotional trash talk and just congratulate each other for being warriors in the ring.

Whatever you think of Wilder not shaking hands after 3 great fights, Fury did pay homage to his worthy opponent and a transformed boxer from the 2nd fight.

Tyson Fury roared: 

"Like the great John Wayne said I am made from pig, iron and steel baby!

"I was down a couple of times and hurt and Wilder is a tough man too after he got up a few times too.

"It was a great fight tonight, worthy of any trilogy in the sport, I always said I am the first best and he is second.

"But I went over to show love and respect and he didn’t want it to so I will pray for him"

The Questions....

The question is, whether or not Anthony Johnson after just losing all his belts to Oleksandr Usyk by unanimous decision just a week before the Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder fight will have regained them in time for an all UK re-unification title fight or whether Fury will have to fight Usyk instead.

Who would like to see Fury fight next? 

Should he wait until AJ has a rematch and possibly reclaims his belts or just fight Usyk instead?

Or should he just fight AJ in what would be a great UK heavyweight fight in our country for once?

Finally like some of the commentators, did you think this was the GOAT, or the best heavyweight fight of the 21st century?

Let me know in the comments.

Anthony Joshua v Oleksandr Usyk

Anthony Joshua loses all his belts to Oleksandr Usyk

Yet again we will have to wait for a rematch to see if AJ can reclaim all his belts after losing them to a much better boxer in Oleksandr Usyk

• Anthony Joshua's second reign as heavyweight champion has come to an end after defeat by Oleksandr Usyk .
• The British star came unstuck against former unified cruiserweight champion Usyk in Tottenham, London .
• Joshua, 31, was unable to find his range with Usyk's surgical precision bamboozling the heavyweight king. 
• The three ringside judges scored the fight 117-112, 116-112, 115-113 in the Ukrainian star's favour.
• Joshua's defeat in London has served a devastating blow to his £200million mega-fight with Tyson Fury.

This is the 2nd time a run of the mill fight on his path to a re-unification of ALL the Heavyweight belts has been stopped by a loss. The first being to Andy Ruiz Jr. Anthony Joshua lost all three of his IBF, WBA and WBO heavyweight titles after being stopped in the seventh round by huge outsider Andy Ruiz Jr at Madison Square Gardens in New York. You can watch the re-match here on my site > AJ reclaims his belts from Ruiz Jr.

With Anthony Johnson just losing all his belts yet again to Oleksandr Usyk by unanimous decision after being outfoxed and out boxed by the speedy Ukrainian over 12 rounds in Tottenham just a week before the Trilogy of fights between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder were about to fight, it looked like their bout would not be happening, and an all English Heavyweight Unification fight would not occur at all.

Anthony Joshua vs Oleksandr Usyk - Full Fight From Sky Sports

You can watch Anthony Joshua getting demolished here if you want. It was a real shock to UK fans and probably AJ himself to find he was on the losing side yet again and will have to hope to reclaim his title belts in a re-match yet again!

Whether AJ has the skill to train and then beat Usyk before Tyson retires I don't know, but the plan was for Tyson to have one more fight to re-unify all the belts and had it been two Englishmen boxing for that event which we haven't seen in a long time.

It would have been amazing for English Boxing especially if they had fought in the UK. Maybe at Wembley or the O2 arena, can you imagine it, a UK fight, fought at a time fit for English people not American's so that we don't have to stay up until 5am to watch a scrap in Las Vegas. The queues for tickets would have stretched for miles and miles.

What did you think of the fight? 

Has AJ lost it after this 2nd defeat in 3 fights?

Will he be able to re-claim his belts in a re-match with Usyk? Or will h never hold a title belt again?

Could AJ beat Fury if they did fight?

Would you prefer to see AJ fighting Fury, or a rematch with Usyk?

Do you want AJ to reclaim all his belts before an all UK fight to re-unify ALL the heavyweight belts fought somewhere in the UK?

Personally I want to see a re-unification fight for ALL the belts, whoever holds them, and then for all the heavyweight belts to be scrapped and just one heavyweight belt made that the winner gets. Let's join up the WBA, WBO, WBC, IBF, IBO titles and any others like the Lineal title and Ring Magazine belts. So that there is only ever one Heavyweight champion which would mean boxers had no excuse to ignore fights and keep one belt and all would be fighting to get that single no 1 spot in the world. 

Having too many heavyweight belts (also any division), makes it seem watered down to me. When AJ had a set of belts but no-one would fight him, and he had trouble getting the fights he wanted, with one belt this would not happen. Tell me what you think?

Tyson v Wilder - Round 2

Tyson Fury versus Deontay  Wilder - The Sequel

Last weekend was the much anticipated rematch between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder in Las Vegas.

The last time they met it ended in a draw. This outcome was much disputed as many people thought Fury had out-boxed Wilder despite being knocked to the canvas twice, once in the last round.

However there was no draw this time and the result was a phenomenal win by Tyson Fury who managed to knock a wild swinging Deontay to the floor numerous times before his corner through in the towel in the 7th round. This decision to save their fighter has been talked about a lot, and many fans consider it an outrage, so seemingly does Wilder, who astonishingly thought he was alright to continue.

In my eyes, if he had continued he would have ended up in the hospital or even worse, like Nigel Benn's fight with Gerald McLellan, he could have been seriously injured, maybe even permanently.

From round 3 on, it seemed Wilder was a spent man, swinging wildly with his punches and hopelessly trying to land his right hand bomb on a constantly bobbing and weaving Tyson Fury.

Fury said before the fight he was going to bully Wilder and press on him from the go. Many people, including experts didn't believe that he could but it seemed that the experience from the first fight and the changes Fury had made to negate Wilder's Knockout Right punch seemed to work. Fury had actually changed trainers from his first fight to one specialising in a US fighting style called Kronk. This is where they train with the heat up full and box to bully their opponent and it looked like those tactics worked as Fury went straight at Wilder from the start.

In the clinches he was constantly hitting Wilder, and pressing his body onto him, a heavier mass than Wilder faced before, and a tactic many Wilder fans have claimed was illegal tactics. However this is a boxing match and if you don't play the game you don't win. Boxer's know the score, they are in the ring to win and things happen, they either fight to win, taking every opportunity that comes their way or they lose.

I haven't seen a heavyweight fight where the two boxers don't clinch and punch each other in the body whilst doing so. It's a tool the boxers use and you either do it back or take the punishment until the referee pulls you apart.

Fury was deducted a point at one stage for an illegal hit, but even so he probably still won that round 9 to 8. Wilder seemed to be all over the place, slipping and falling either from Tyson's relentless punches or accidentally. Whether his ear drum were hurt from a punch or not, that may have affected his balance, Wilder just seemed to lack the basic boxing skills to handle Fury.

There was no jab, no good footwork, and Wilder just kept doing what he has done for so long. Attempting to knock out a much better boxer with one strong punch. It didn't work, and in the end his corner had enough and threw the towel in to stop the fight.

There's been a lot of controversy before and after the fight, and you can see some of the arguments below the videos. The walk on by Wilder in a (too heavy), knights suit, behind a rapper singing about black power etc has been seen by many as a way to make the fight racial but the Las Vegas crowd didn't want to play that game. Wilder was met with boos from the crowd during his entrance, whilst a relaxed Fury was carried into the ring on a thrown, as the arena played one of his favourite songs.

Wilder had made comments before the fight about Tyson's struggles with depression and drugs but Fury dismissed them all with his performance and after fight comments about them. He even sang a song in the ring to the crowd and looked very happy to have won the fight.

Watch the official highlights of the fight from BT Sport below.

The Fury v Wilder 2 - BT Sport Fight Highlights

Tyson's camp now want to fight Antony Joshua and unify all the heavyweight belts. Frank Warren wants the fight to go ahead in the Autumn in Saudi Arabia. Personally I think that is a kick in the teeth to British Boxing fans.

If this fight between two Heavyweight English Champions, goes ahead, then it should be fought in the UK either at Wembley or the O2 arena.

Why should British fans miss out on the chance to attend a local BIG heavyweight fight that would possibly be the biggest since the fights of Ali n Foreman?

Aside from the fact Saudi Arabia is a nut job country, that cuts heads off people and jails and publicly whips victims of rape, the fight to unify the belts is a good idea. There are far too many belts out there in my opinion and they should unify them all, then scrap all but one, leaving just one heavyweight champion out there for all contenders to face.

No contract disputes and people avoiding certain belt holders to go after one particular belt and not fight another fighter as we saw with AJ's attempts to find an opponent recently. WBO, WBC, IBF, IBO, etc, etc...what would the heavyweight division look like with just one belt and everyone having to fight for a place to contend for it?

It may just be a dream, however and if Fury can skip the 3rd fight with Wilder that hes contractually obliged to fight, to face AJ for his 3 belts, then it would just be as if one belt existed, for a time anyway. Whether Deontay Wilder will take a payout to miss the 3rd fight and then possibly fight AJ or Fury, for the whole lot I don't know, but it's what Fury's camp want to happen.

There is also talk of Fury retiring after winning the fight with AJ and then one defence of his unified champion status. Whether Wilder would be the person he faced if he won against AJ I don't know and it seems like a contractual nightmare could be debated and argued for some time before Fury's next opponent is settled upon.

You can watch the full fight here.

Full Fight Fury v Wilder 2

I have been on Facebook a lot in the boxing groups since the fight and it does seem to be a lot of pissed off Wilder fans making excuses for their idols loss. That is despite Wilder's own excuse that the costume he wore on the walk out into the arena was too heavy and he was drained before the fight.

This is despite comments he made on Joe Rogan's podcast that he trained with a much heavier weight around him before a big fight, therefore I don't know how he can say the weight of a small child during the walk on prevented him from fighting. He must be a very unfit fighter if that is the case!

It seems that the list of excuses include:

• Tyson cheating by clinching and pushing his heavy body onto the smaller framed Wilder 
• Tyson cheating by rabbit punching Wilder in the clinches 
• Tyson cheating by flicking Wilder with his glove
• Tyson cheating by tampering with his glove, all due to the CCTV being switched off in his changing room before the fight at one time. 
• Tyson cheating by hitting Wilder behind the head. 
• Wilder being okay, and it was his corner that lost the fight for him but he was standing so could continue.....all the way to the hospital in my opinion! 
• Wilder taking an illegal shot to the back of his head on his ear which ruptured his ear drum causing the lack of balance and numerous falls we saw from him.
• Wilder having a bad training camp. 
• Wilder just being Wilder basically and a lot of people's hero it seems and he can do no wrong. 
• Some racist comments against White/English boxers. 
• Plus a load more too stupid to mention.

What do you think, should Wilder take the contract for a third fight with Fury now, or take the wait clause that Fury wants so he can fight Anthony Joshua first.

Also let me know any comments about the walk on's, the pre-fight chat, the actual fight and any excuses you haven't heard for Wilder's poor performance.

Also if you are English, do you want the fight to be held in Saudi Arabia or should it be held at home so we can all attend?

Anthony Joshua v Andy Ruiz Jr - ROUND 2

Anthony Joshua regains his belts by boring everyone who paid for PPV in Saudi Arabia on a thankfully early Saturday night fight night.

You can read up about the build up to the fight in the desert and the reasons Anthony Joshua is the unified World Champion despite Detony Wilder holding the WBC belt here.

I am so glad I didn't waste the £25.99 Sky Box Office were charging to watch the rematch of AJ and Andy Ruiz Jr in the desert on Saturday night. There are so many free streaming services and apps out there that you can just put on your phone and mirror to your TV you don't need to until the FBI shuts them down.

The only saving grace to the 12 rounds of AJ circle Andy Ruiz Jr with jabs all night was that it was before 12pm and I didn't have to pay to suffer to watch it.

The fight basically consisted of 12 rounds of a very in shape and seemingly giant Anthony Joshua circle a flat footed and very overweight Andy Ruiz Jr, who had obviously been training at McDonald's since the last fight, with jabs all night.

It was (as some called it), a display of artful boxing. I suppose it was in that AJ knew if he got too close to Ruiz one punch to his glass chin could put him down like the 4 times he hit the canvas in Madison Gardens. So to ensure Ruiz couldn't get close enough to him, he used his longer reach and his jab. Plus the fact Ruiz couldn't get close due to his unfitness we didn't even get to see one flurry of a tear up.

No close contact jabs going back and forth and upper cuts, ducks, weaves and bobs. It was literally AJ circling Ruiz all night with jabs to his face.

He won on points of course and got his belts back. Then Ruiz came over and interrupted his interview to invite himself to another match up. I don't think I would even bother to find a free way to watch that fight.



What I want to see is one heavyweight belt for everyone to fight for. AJ may have "unified" 4 belts but Detony Wilder and Tyson Fury are ignoring the opportunity to take them off him and Wilder seems happy with his WBC belt.

Why won't Wilder fight AJ?

He obviously has a chin ripe for the "bomb squad" as Wilder likes to boom down a mic after knocking someone out who looked like beating him all night. So why doesn't Wilder and AJ meet for a proper unification of the belts and then we can see if AJ has the boxing skills to take on someone with equal fitness and strength in the ring.

Let's just hope it's not in Saudi Arabia if you have any morals.

It's a boxing blog so I shouldn't really go there but if no-one mentions it then we all live in ignorance.

Why we are allowing Saudi Arabia a country involved in cutting US journalists up alive such as Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey's embassy before acting puzzled that we all complained about it, to hold boxing matches?

Well we have been letting the country cut peoples heads and other limbs off after Friday prayers for decades now. We've got to have that black gold and of course our Arms Industry is a "national interest" according to Tony Blair when BAE bribed some princes to sell weapons to our "ally".

So if it means women who are gang raped are whipped 200 times in public and spend 6 months in jail, and our weapons are used in the genocide Saudi Arabia is committing in Yemen causing famine and disease then it's okay if we get to see a boxing match before midnight now and then.

Lets forget about all that, they are just a country in the process of modernising from the 7th century. However to listen to Antony Joshua praise Saudi Arabia multiple times after the fight made my stomach turn just a bit.

So who cares what this backward country tries to do to improve their image as long as we get to see Muslim boxers like Amir Khan and AJ choose to fight in the desert before midnight for once so we don't all waste our time and money.

Forget the beheadings and public lashing of rape victims. We get to see some boring boxing now Saudi Arabia has entered the game.

Watch the full fight here, the rematch between Andy Ruiz Jr and Anthony Joshua (before YouTube removes it of course - excuse the foreign commentary but you don't really need it)

FULL FIGHT - AJ v Andy Ruiz Jr - REMATCH




And if you just want to see the highlights in case the full fight goes then....

HIGHLIGHTS - AJ v Andy Ruiz Jr - REMATCH



Tell me what you think about the night.

Write anything you want in the comments whether it was about the £25.99 PPV price for such a boring fight, Andy Ruiz Jr not getting himself into shape before the fight, the tactics of AJ to just circle and jab or about Saudi Arabian princes going off to Dubai for some non Islamic fun with prostitutes, alcohol and drugs.

Just leave a comment below.

Anthony Joshua Loses His Belts To Andy Ruiz

Shock outcome at Madison Garden as Anthony Joshua loses to stand in fighter Andy Ruiz

It was meant to be an easy fight for AJ, a fight to show the Americans including Detonay Wilder and Tyson Fury what he could do in the ring. That was until the 3rd round knock out.

It was a round that Joshua had Ruiz on the canvas himself but then afterwards he was rocked by a punch that put himself on the floor.

He took a count and then carried on before another knock down and AJ's chin and legs were wobbling from that point on.

How many fights is that now that I have stayed up all night to watch only to be disapointed by no true KO. The other week Amir Khan let himself down by giving up after a low blow and now we have Anthony Joshua losing his 4 belts to someone who probably never expected to ever have one of them round his waist in his life time.

I want to see UK fighters show some true grit, I want to see Nigel Benn back in the ring, I want to see Lennox Lewis fighting Tyson, I want to see Joe Calzaghe go over to Vegas and stay undefeated not get floored and lose in his last events like Ricky Hatton. Come on UK we can do better!

Watch the full fight highlights of Anthony Joshua being beaten by Andy Ruiz here.

• Let me know what you thought of the fight in the comments section, was Joshua having a bad day or was he taking things lightly as he didn't expect to lose at all?

Anthony Joshua v Jarrell Miller

June 1st Madison Square Garden - Big Babby Jarrel Miller v Anthony Joshua

This breakdown includes the best knockouts, TKO's and finishes by the up coming up clash between Anthony Joshua and "Big Babby" Jarrel Miller, the ex kick boxer.

Hopefully we will get to see a knockdown in this fight, as the last 2 UK fights I have commented on wishing to see a KO finish just never materialised. Sure I made some money from betting on these fights ending on a decision finish but I'd have rather lost those bets and seen great explosive endings than winning on Eubank at 3/1 to win by decision.

This time I will be betting a smaller stake as I am secretly hoping AJ can put JM's ass on the canvass pretty soon but it's always wise to go with your gut. Also if AJ doesn't KO Big Babby, I think the price for a Ref's decision is going to be slightly more than the 3/1 price I got from the Eubank JNR v DeGale fight.

A smaller stake with bigger odds will even it out, and with a better than nothing chance of a TKO or KO finish to this fight I won't be losing too much if AJ gets Miller to a 10 count. Or if by some miracle Jarrel manages to eat AJ's punches and go the full distance then the bet will pay me back for another uneventful ending to British boxers match. 

Either way I will be happy, a points decision or an AJ KO/TKO and if they fight like the UK Boxing warriors I have been waiting for over the last six months then I will happily walk away with my money in the bookies pocket if another poor finish ends the night,

I said it before the Eubank v DeGale fight, I said it before the Frampton v Warrington fight, and excluding some knockdowns do we really have to go all the way back to Money Mayweather beating Conor McGreggor with a TKO to get the nearest top fighter from these Isles to finish on the canvas.

Also Conor is Irish, not a real Boxer, and didn't actually want to finish by a TKO anyway preferring to go down for the full count. Added to that he could have at any moment ended the fight in style with a backward spinning kick to throw Mayweather halfway across the front seats. That would have bested any boxing ending I have seen so far for sure and probably earned Conor a standing ovation.

So this time I demand a KO from AJ or Miller, the most likely outcome being a KO or TKO giving AJ the win in the end as I can't see Miller giving AJ any problems in this upcoming headliner.

Remember if you don't have Sky or BT and want to watch the fight on your flat screen TV have a word with the Free Fims and TV man.

He can set you up to watch all the PPV boxing and football games you would want to see. So to prepare us for this battle ahead we have two videos of the best of each fighter in action. Here are Joshua's 22 wins by deadly force.

 

 Watch below for ex kick boxer, Jarrel Millers best hits.

 

Now compare and contrast, who do you think will win when they meet in Madison Square Garden on Saturday June the 1st? 

As always please leave your comments in the boxes below and let me know ASAP when videos are removed by YouTube who have some stupid way of enabling people to embed videos then shutting them off for people who do. The modern Internet is here, and it's not as good as it used to be that's for sure, well apart from watching PPV Boxing For Free that is!