Gypsy King Destruction! Woozy Wilder Goes Down Twice Before Corner Stops It!
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Las Vegas, NV (February 23, 2020)– In the ESPN Plus and Fox PPV main event at MGM Grand Garden Arena at MGM Grand, Saturday night, February 22, 2020, Tyson Fury, ‘The Gypsy King’ who is the lineal heavyweight champion, remained undefeated and added the World Boxing Council World Heavyweight championship to his belt with a meticulous seven-round destruction of Deontay Wilder.
All 273 pounds of the 6’9″ Fury, 30-0-1 with 21 knockouts, Wilmslow, United Kingdom, came forward with consistent pressure and feigning to force Wilder to fight an entire bout backwards for the first time in his professional career. Wilder, ‘The Bronze Bomber’, 42-1-1 with 41 knockouts, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, looked tiny at 6’7″ and only 231 pounds.
Fury really mixed his punches up, with power headshots and a devastating body punch attack. Wilder, bleeding from the mouth and left ear, appeared to be on unsteady legs in a wide stance, and his equilibrium was gone after a few rounds, probably from whatever happened to his left ear bruising or damaging the inner eardrum and leaving him woozy.
Fury knocked down Wilder in the third and fifth rounds. Fury took a point deduction from referee Kenny Bayless, however, in the fifth round, from what appeared to be excessive holding and some hitting off the break.
Fury had a spectacular feel for how to deal with Wilder more accurately in this rematch of their 2018 draw. Fury consistently leaned his entire body on Wilder. and wrapped his arms around Wilder’s head during clinches, in a sort of super version of what Muhammad Ali did to George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire decade ago. This effect exacerbated Wilder’s loss of equilibrium in a likely concussed state. As Fury mauled away at Wilder, the brutal and devastating destruction as hard to watch, and looked like a reincarnated version of Rocky Marciano chewed on a ragdoll, a deranged pit bull mutilating a stuffed animal. Near the end of round six, Fury flicked his tongue out back and forth, apparently tasting Wilder’s blood sadistically. It was seven one-sided rounds of sadistic violence, Howard Cosell style, the way the public likes to see it. Wilder was upset by the stoppage, characterizing himself as a warrior, but like Ali’s knockout of Foreman, the end coming for him would have been about the same.
In the end, Fury brutalized a defenseless Wilder with atom bomb shots to the head which were not answered before Wilder’s corner stopped the massacre, it looked like a bloodthirsty hyena chewing on a poodle. Let Fury fight Anthony Joshua, Dillian Whyte, Andy Ruiz Jr., Jarrell Miller, Adam Kownacki, Felip Hrgovic, Daniel Dubois, Mike Hunter, whoever he wants. It looked like a tiny man trying to slug it out with a Godzilla monster, and Godzilla had lunch. If the two combatants were rock’em sock’em robots, Wilder’s block was most certainly knocked off at the time this bout was mercifully stopped.
Using superior head movement to slip punches, while landing his own blows meticulously, according to CompuBox, Tyson Fury landed 55 of 160 power punches, while Wilder landed only 18 of 55 power punches. It was an insurmountable statistic for Wilder, who probably will never fully understand nor fully recover from the senseless beating he took. A third match, even if it exists in a contractual clause, would be a miserable attempt to sell tickets. Wilder did say it right in the postfight ring the ring interview. The best do fight the best. It was two undefeated world heavyweight champions going at it for the second time, in the mold of Muhammad Ali versus Smokin’ Joe Frazier.
Wilder was never a skilled boxer in the style which Tyson Fury presented in this bout. Wilder was always a raw and wild power hitter devoid of technical boxing skill his entire career. In this rematch, with Fury now in top condition and peak form, Wilder’s power and speed were of no value, and was nothing more than a juicy target for a monstrous power hitter. When the bout reached its epic conclusion, it looked like Rocky Balboa pounding on a hanging slab of meat inside a meat freezer. Perhaps this reporter’s analogies are insane and extreme, but the outcome was predicted on Real Combat Media, and the only thing which prevented Wilder from getting knocked out was the corner stoppage. Fury won every round on the scorecards. Wilder looked like a drunken frightened rabbit.
Result: Tyson Fury TKO 7 Deontay Wilder, Heavyweight (1:39)
Fury wins World Boxing Council World Heavyweight championship
Fury retains lineal World Heavyweight championship
Wilder down in the third and fifth rounds. Fury had a point deduction in round five.
Referee: Kenny Bayliss
Undercard Results
Charles Martin TKO 6 Gerald Washington, Heavyweights (1:57)
Washington was down in round six.
Biggest win in former IBF World Heavyweight champion Martin’s career.
Emanuel Navarrette TKO 11 Jeo Santisma, Super Bantamweights (2:20)
Navarette retains WBO World Super Bantamweight title.
First time Santisma has been stopped on has fought outside of his native Philippines.
Isaac Lowe Win 10 Alberto Guevara, Featherweights
20-0-3 British featherweight prospect Lowe dropped Guevara in the eighth round.
A rude bout in which six points were deducted during the bout for various fouls.
Petros Ananyan Win 10 Subriel Matias, Welterweights
Surprise! Ananyan drops 15-0 Matias in seventh round, wins by 95-94 on two scorecards.
Sebastian Fundora Win 10 Daniel Lewis, Super Welterweights
14-0-1 southpaw super welterweight prospect Fundora hails from Coachella, California.
Javier Molina Win 8 Amir Imam, Welterweights
22-2 Molina upsets highly touted prospect 22-2 Amir Imam in an unexpected outcome.
Gabriel Flores Jr. Win 8 Matt Conway, Lightweights
17-0 Flores dropped 17-1 Conway in the first round, lighting the path to victory.
Rolando Romero TKO 2 Arturs Ahmetovs, Super Lightweights (1:22)
10-0 Las Vegas super lightweight Romero stops 5-0 Ahmetovs in prospects battle.
Vito Mielnicki Jr. Win 4 Corey Champion, Welterweights
4-0 Mielnicki dropped 1-2 Champion in round two. Unanimous decision.
Tyson Fury Sings American Pie Post Fight
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
After defeating Deontay Wilder, Tyson Fury made a different sort of history in professional boxing. Fury, his brain working wonderfully and cleverly, got everyone to join in and sing Don McClean’s timeless classic ‘American Pie’.
It would seem British citizen Tyson Fury, the so-called ‘Gypsy King’, is an unlikely source of this American classic song.
American Pie, a song by American singer and songwriter don Mclean, was recorded and released on the McClean’s American Pie album in 1971. The single extended version of American Pie, on two sides of a 45 record, was the number one United States hit for four weeks in 1972, and also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. In the United Kingdom, where Tyson Fury is from, the single reached number two, where it stayed for three weeks, on its original 1971 release, while a reissue in 1991 reached number twelve. The song was listed as the number song of all-time on the RIAA project Songs of the Century. Another version of the song was covered by Madonna in 2000, and reached number one in several countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia.
McLean’s combined version is the fourth longest song to enter the Billboard Hot 100 (at the time of release it was the longest), in addition to being the longest song to reach number one.
‘The Day Music Died’ expression refers to the plane crash in 1959 which killed early rock and roll performers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson). In essence, music died in the United States. The three had sold over 10 million dollars in records in the 12 months preceding their plane crash. It was an unprecedented musical disaster.
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