Boxing
TYSON FURY FAKED INJURY TO CATCH A MOLE LEAKING CAMP INFORMATION TO DEFEATED WILDER
According to Daily Mail of UK, the new WBC boxing champion, Tyson Fury faked an injury to try and find a mole leaking information from his training camp ahead of his triumph over Deontay Wilder last month.
That
is according to Fury’s cousin and trainer, Andy Lee, who details the lengths
Fury went to in order to stop Wilder in the seventh round in LaS Vegas. .
‘There was a couple days where Tyson messed around to see if leaks would happen,’ he told Boxing Social.
He feigned injury or pretended to limp after a sparring session just to see what would happen.
‘That’s the type of level of deviousness you’re dealing with, with him. Inside his own training camp he’ll put on a show and play act to see if anyone talks outside the camp.’
Fury was spotted limping at a UFC event in January which sparked concerns he was injured before his rematch with Wilder.
During his training camp, the British heavyweight champion also swapped trainer Ben Davison for Sugar Hill Steward just two months before his win over Wilder.
Fury’s close friend, adviser and camp manager Timothy Allcock painted a picture to VegasInsider of what was going on behind the scenes before the fight.
‘The big differences have been food, particularly strictness with what is in camp – silly little things like cans of Diet Coke have gone,’ Allock said.
‘We definitely had to rope in the food. Tyson never really stuck to the diet plan we gave him last time, he was always nipping out and eating fast food outside the camp – and all that has changed now.’
‘We’ve also cut a lot of out of the way in terms of people visiting the house willy nilly.’
Fury floored Wilder twice on his way to being crowned WBC heavyweight champion in February.
The World Boxing Organisation ordered Ukraine’s world heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk to open talks with Joseph Parker on Thursday for a mandatory title defence.
Previously undisputed champion Usyk, 38, holds the WBC, WBA and WBO belts after two successive wins over Britain’s Tyson Fury.
New Zealand’s Parker was WBO champion from 2016 to 2018, when he was beaten by Anthony Joshua on a 12-round unanimous decision. The Briton then lost the belt to Usyk in London in September 2021.
Now 33, Parker stopped Congolese replacement Martin Bakole in two rounds in a fight for the WBO Interim belt in Riyadh last month.
The WBO ordered fight negotiations in an email to both boxers’ management, Alex Krassyuk of Team Usyk and Frank Warren of Queensberry Promotions, published on the boxing body’s website, opens new tab.
“The parties have 30 days to reach terms. Failure to do so will result in this committee ordering purse bid proceedings in accordance with WBO regulations of world championship contests,” it added.
Britain’s IBF champion Daniel Dubois, who withdrew from a fight with Parker in February due to illness, has also been in talks with Usyk for the undisputed title and is also represented by Warren.
“We are now working on this fight, Wembley as one of the options,” Krassyuk told Sky Sports television on Wednesday.
The WBO’s email, from chairman Luis Batista Salas, was dated March 13.
Dubois lost to the undefeated Usyk in Poland in 2023 but took the IBF belt after the Ukrainian vacated it last year after his first victory over Fury.
-Reuters
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American Claressa Shields was crowned boxing’s first undisputed world champion in three weight classes on Sunday after beating compatriot Danielle Perkins for the women’s heavyweight title by unanimous decision in front of a home crowd in Flint, Michigan.
Shields, who also won gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, landed a powerful right hand with seconds to go in the 10th and final round, knocking down Perkins and improving her professional career record to 16-0.
The win makes 29-year-old Shields an undisputed champion in a third weight class, adding to her undisputed titles in the middleweight and light-middleweight divisions.
She is the only boxer, man or woman, to achieve the feat.
“It feels unbelievable, to be honest. I had a really hard training camp. And just last Friday, I tore my labrum in my left shoulder, so I wasn’t able to use my good jab today,” Shields said.
“But I didn’t want to call the fight off because I had asked God to give me a big fight in my hometown. He did that. So I decided to keep going through with it.
“I feel so happy. And shout out to my opponent, Danielle Perkins. Man, that girl was strong as hell.”
-Reuters
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This Monday afternoon, Tyson Fury announced his retirement from boxing for the third time in a fresh bombshell statement.
He announced in a short video which he posted on social media on Monday afternoon.
“Hi everybody, I’m going to make this short and sweet,” he said to the camera. “I’d like to announce my retirement from boxing.
“It’s been a blast, I’ve loved every single minute of it. I’m going to end with this. Dick Turpin wore a mask. God bless everybody, see you on the other side. Get up!”
Last month, he lost his rematch for the WBA (Super), WBO and WBC world heavyweight titles against Oleksandr Usyk.
The 36-year-old Briton had earlier announced his retirement after beating Dillian Whyte in 2022 but returned six months later. He had also announced retirements in 2013 and 2017 on social media, but both were short-lived.
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