![]() I’m saying Wilder, I was thinking about it today,” Joshua said. Knowing either man will call him out following the finish of the fight, the champ make his prediction on the outcome of the highly-anticipated bout. Joshua is currently the unified heavyweight champion, holding three of the four major championships in the division. In other early match-ups, Wilder’s brother Marsellos - who fights at cruiserweight - scored a knockdown and moved to 3-0 with a shutout four-round decision win against David Damore.Īnthony Joshua is the man Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury will be eyeing off if they’re to walk away victorious from their WBC Heavyweight showdown in Las Vegas. Guerrero dropped Hungarian journeyman Adam Mate (28-13) three times on his way to a third-round TKO victory. He had only won two of six fights since then entering tonight’s event and hadn’t fought since July last year, but he returned on the untelevised part of the card and showed he still has some fight left. Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero has fallen a long way from the heady heights of 2013, when he lost a decision to Floyd Mayweather. Good night.â Andreas Hale December 2, 2018Įarly card: Former Mayweather foe still swinging The American battled to get back to his feet but his legs wouldn’t cooperate as the referee waved off the fight.Īnd Joe Joyce just annihilated Joe Hanks. In the opening bout of the pay-per-view section of the card, Joyce, 33, landed a number of heavy blows before finishing Hanks with a huge left hook. Joyce, the silver medalist in the super heavyweight division at the Rio Olympics, improved his record to 7-0 with seven knockouts. ![]() Rising British heavyweight Joe Joyce continued the promising start to his career with a first round knockout against Joe Hanks (23-3). Ortiz (30-1) has only lost to Deontay Wilder and given the trouble he gave the WBC champion in that fight before being stopped looms as a potential rematch candidate - or a challenger to other heavyweight stars Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury. The Cuban had success with his overhand left early in the fight before stunning Kauffman (32-3) with a left hook in the final round. Ortiz knocked Kauffman down in the sixth and eighth rounds before closing the show in the 10th. Luis “King Kong” Ortiz showed he’s up there with the best of the heavyweight division by winning a late stoppage against solid American Travis Kauffman. kBuG2zEFKHâ Alan O' Reilly December 2, 2018 Wilder with the only two knockdowns but Fury may scrape past on the scorecards. But Fury gets to his feet and the referee allows him to continue and finish the fight. He puts Fury down again and this time it’s a heavy shot that the challenger struggles to rise from. R12: FURY DOWN! Fury lands a right hand early in the round but with the finish line in sight Wilder pulls a rabbit out of the hat. Fury has a little more energy though and does enough to take it. R11: Another tight round with neither man doing much in the first minute and a half. Wilder looks gassed and can’t afford to be taking rounds off like that. R10: Fury is marked under his right eye but he opens the round with intent to regain control of the fight and dominates the entire three minutes. Fury hangs on for dear life while his head clears but has all but recovered by the end of the round as Wilder breathes heavily. R9: FURY DOWN! Wilder flips the script with a right hand that wobbles Fury and follows up with several shots to the top of the challenger’s head to put him on the canvas. ![]() “You can beat him with your left hand alone,” Fury’s trainer Ben Davison tells him in the corner. He remains respectful of Wilder’s power but makes sure he takes enough risks to land a couple of shots each round that should see him given the nod on the scorecards. And heâs boxing extremely well.â Chris Mannix December 2, 2018 Heâs coming off two laughers that ended a two-plus year layoff. This is some kind of performance by Tyson Fury so far. Wilder managed to clip him late in the round with a swinging right hand that left the Brit bleeding from the nose. R4: Fury looking really confident here as he firmly establishes his jab. R3: Another close round but Fury arguably shades the American and the longer this go, the better it is for the challenger. R2: This time it’s Wilder who lands late in the round with a shot that gets Fury’s attention. The Gypsy King landed a big right hand that rocked the champ late in the round. He was given a sharp reminder of the American’s power midway through the round but Wilder felt Fury’s punch too. Fury was feinting a lot and looked relaxed - even mocking Wilder by putting his hands down by his waist. ![]() R1: Wilder threw first, unsuccessfully attempting to land some wild shots. KpmzTOXmi4â Bryan Armen Graham December 2, 2018 ![]() Here's the official scorecard for #WilderFury. ![]()
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