Tyson Fury to Fight Deontay Wilder Again in Las Vegas For the Trilogy
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Las Vegas, NV (March 2nd, 2020)– Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier did battle three times. Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield did battle three times. Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson did battle three times. Now, for only the fourth time in heavyweight boxing championship history, two present or former champions will go at each other for the lineal World Heavyweight championship for a third time.
Ex-World Boxing Council World Heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder has exercised his mandatory rematch clause after losing his world heavyweight title to Tyson Fury last month. Wilder, 42-1-1 with 41 knockouts, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, will face Fury, 30-0-1 with 21 knockouts, Wilmslow, United Kingdom, at the MGM Grand Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, yet again, on July 18, 2020.
Wilder, a warrior, did not want his second bout with Fury stopped despite looking wobbly due to an injured eardrum before he was stopped in the seventh round when his corner interceded. Despite his disappointment at the injury stoppage, Wilder has retained trainer assistant trainer Mark Breland, and will have less than five months to prepare for his third confrontation with Fury.
Fury, who sang the hit tune American Pie after his recent victory over Wilder, maybe singing the same tune or a different tune when he fights Wilder for the third time on DAZN a third time. The third bout, in the view of this reporter, seems likely to go to a decision the third time as the two fighters have felt each other out enough to set the stage for a third go-around. Since both of their first two super fights have yielded knockdowns (Fury went down twice the first time, Wilder went down twice in the second match), knockdowns figure in during the third heavyweight super fight, with the winner looking for the super unification bout with Anthony Joshua by the end of 2020.
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