12:44 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Tyson Fury, known as “The Gypsy King,” can now be known simply as The King. Fury dispensed with the skillful boxing that he was so successful with the first time he met Deontay Wilder and followed through with his stated plan to attack him, and attack him he did
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12:51 AM ET Anna Katherine Clemmons Close Anna Katherine Clemmons is a contributing writer for ESPN The Magazine. It’s been 20 years since boxing has had an undisputed heavyweight champion, Lennox Lewis. Now that Tyson Fury has beaten Deontay Wilder to claim the WBC and lineal heavyweight championships, fans, promoters and fellow fighters are clamoring
11:24 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Rivals Top Rank and Premier Boxing Champions, working together on Saturday night’s Deontay Wilder-Tyson Fury heavyweight championship rematch, have gotten additional business done during fight week, finalizing two more deals. They put the finishing touches on rescheduling unified junior welterweight world titlist Jose Ramirez’s mandatory defense against PBC fighter
7:43 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Hoping to avoid a repeat of the pushing and shoving that took place between heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury at their final prefight news conference on Wednesday, the Nevada State Athletic Commission mandated that the big men would not be permitted to face off
8:58 AM ET LAS VEGAS — Both heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury called for an immediate rematch after their controversial draw in December 2018. After all, the fight was entertaining, had drama, no clear-cut winner and was a commercial success. Even though the slicker Fury outboxed Wilder for long stretches,
8:54 AM ET Heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder puts his WBC belt on the line against lineal champion Tyson Fury in a rematch of their controversial split draw in 2018, when Fury outboxed Wilder for long periods of the fight but suffered two knockdowns, including one in the 12th and final round. In 2019, Wilder
4:35 PM ET LAS VEGAS — The Nevada State Athletic Commission has barred heavyweight world titleholder Deontay Wilder and lineal champion Tyson Fury from participating in the traditional faceoff at the weigh-in on Friday ahead of their championship rematch. Wilder and Fury are scheduled to weigh in Friday at 6 p.m. ET. “The reason the
8:08 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A 19-year-old former high school basketball player tries to walk on at the local community college when he learns his daughter will be born with spina bifida. She’ll need multiple surgeries, just for starters. He drops out of school and gets a job at Red Lobster. Then
8:52 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Heavyweight world titlist Deontay Wilder made his walk to the stage first, and when lineal champion Tyson Fury joined him moments later, all of the niceties and mutual respect they have shown each other throughout the buildup to their rematch was out the window. Instead, the two giants went
8:08 AM ET Mark KriegelESPN TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A 19-year-old former high school basketball player tries to walk on at the local community college when he learns his daughter will be born with spina bifida. She’ll need multiple surgeries, just for starters. He drops out of school and gets a job at Red Lobster. Then