FIGHT OF FURY
Oct 22, 2021
4 minutes
COMPILED BY KIM ABRAHAMS
IT LOOKED like a foregone conclusion.
In one corner was a flabby giant of a man weighing in at 126kg. In the other was a sleek, lean, muscular fighter stopping the scale at 108kg.
Watching Tyson Fury lumbering around the ring while Deontay Wilder danced about lightly made you wonder if the bigger man stood a chance.
The men, both heavyweight champions, had come to blows twice before, but neither was satisfied with how those fights ended. This time would be different, they promised.
Yet the odds seemed to be stacked against Britain’s Fury (33).
He tested positive for Covid-19 in July and the original fight date had to be postponed. A month later his
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