- Heavyweight rivals meet for third time in 34 months
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Hello and welcome to the Las Vegas strip for tonight’s showdown between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder for the WBC heavyweight title. We’re ringside at the T-Mobile Arena for the third fight in 34 months between this very odd couple, who are set to punctuate only the fifth trilogy between champions in boxing’s prestige division after Patterson-Johansson, Ali-Frazier, Ali-Norton and Bowe-Holyfield.
When they first crossed paths in December 2018 for the WBC title then held by Wilder, Fury spent most of the evening boxing the heavy-handed Alabaman’s ears off with erratic feints and deft upper-body movement belying his towering 6ft 9in frame. Even after suffering knockdowns in the ninth and 12th rounds, the latter of which left him seemingly unconscious on descent, Fury came off the floor each time and finished the round getting the better of the exchanges before settling for a disputed split draw.
