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LONDON. — Tyson Fury goaded Deontay Wilder into a shouting match at the final news conference before their trilogy world heavyweight boxing fight.
They meet in Las Vegas this weekend with Fury making the first defence of his WBC world heavyweight title.
A tense affair erupted during the closing statements as Fury insisted Wilder’s legacy was tarnished.
“You’re in denial and you’re getting knocked out. Do yourself a favour and retire from boxing. Your legacy is in bits,” Fury said.
“Even all your excuses have been destroyed. You’re a weak man.”
Wilder rose to the taunts and insisted his opponent had no power over him.
“I don’t have to fight another day in my life, I am good — can you say the same thing? Nervous energy,” he replied as Fury insulted him.
“My family have an understanding, my children have an understanding, that daddy has a dangerous job — no other sport has claimed as many lives as boxing, they understand.”
With tensions rising, the face-off was abandoned as Top Rank boss Bob Arum shouted from the side of the stage that there was to be no staredown.
It was a tense affair before the first question was even asked as Wilder sunk into his chair and Fury refused to take his seat. In a bright suit covered in the WBC logo, Fury was shirtless under his jacket while Wilder wore his headphones and repeatedly checked his phone. Wilder (35) suffered a technical knock-out defeat by the 33-year-old Briton 20 months ago, after their first fight was drawn.
“My energy is like my mind, very violent,” Wilder added. “I don’t regret it, I will go to my grave believing in what I believe in.
“One thing about it, men lie, women lie, but your eyes don’t lie what you see — people can believe what they want, but the eyes don’t lie and it only made me better as a man to see certain facts, it made me hungrier than before.
“I wouldn’t take it back, I needed it, it was a blessing in disguise.” — BBC Sport.
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