THE KRONK way
IT was a fight of extraordinary brutality. Even for a battle at the top end of heavyweight boxing, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder subjected one another to a degree of punishment that has rarely been matched when they concluded their trilogy in Las Vegas this October.
Fury had put the American down in the third round only for Wilder, who possesses explosive one-punch power, to drop the Briton twice in the fourth. From the stands these looked like heavy knockdowns. But his corner knew Fury could cope.
“I expected an early knockout by Tyson in the third round. It was looking like that and, then the fourth round, Tyson got a little bit… he forgot,” SugarHill Steward, his trainer, laughed faintly as he recalled those ferocious rounds. “He was still very alert and everything like that. I wasn’t concerned with him in the fourth round. It was just – the bell’s going to ring eventually, getting him back and he did everything he was supposed to do in that fourth round. He held for
