Wilder claims that Fury tampered with the gloves but the champion denies it

The heavyweight champion, the English Tyson Fury, attacked this Wednesday against the American Deontay Wilder, who accused him, without bases so far, of having manipulated his gloves in their February 2020 rematch, which he won by technical knockout in the seventh round. Fury looks for another victory against Wilder in Las Vegas this weekend in the early hours of Saturday, October 9 to Sunday, October 10, an evening that can be seen through Fight Sports Max.

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The trilogy's pre-fight activities have gotten so out of control that Bob Arum, president of the promoting company, Top Rank, decided to cancel the traditional pre-fight bout Saturday at T-Mobile Arena for the World Boxing Council (WBC) version heavyweight championship, which Fury owns.

"He says he wants to do bad things to me and he has all this anger inside, malice and aggression," Fury said, adding that unlike, for his part, "I don't want to hurt Deontay Wilder. I just want to beat him in a fight." He added that "those who hold hot coals aggressively are the ones who get burned. He knows he lost twice and he will lose the third time."

The champion asked at the news conference "if the gloves contained a foreign object, as Wilder claims, why does he still employ the man who inspected those gloves before the fight I beat him in?"

Jay Deas is no longer Wilder's head trainer, but he is on the team and will work the corner on fight night. Deas was replaced by Malik Scott, whom Wilder knocked out in one round in 2014. Mark Breland, a former assistant trainer, was fired by Wilder for throwing in the towel in the seventh round.

The English fighter said that "Mark Breland saved your life that night. You should give him a raise. If I won because I cheated, what's the point of changing his team?"

But Wilder, who is 42-1 with 41 knockouts, went on to claim, without proof, that Fury tampered with his gloves. The Nevada State Athletic Commission inspected the gloves and found nothing abnormal.

Accusations in October 2020

The allegations were originally made by Wilder in October 2020 amid a contract dispute regarding the third fight. The deal for the second fight contained a rematch clause, which Wilder quickly exercised, but after many failed attempts to find a date due to the pandemic, Fury said he was thinking better of facing countryman Anthony Joshua.

Fury, who is 30-0-1 with 21 knockouts, had a deal to face Joshua for the undisputed heavyweight championship on August 14 in Saudi Arabia, but in May an independent arbitrator ruled that Fury owed him Wilder a third fight.

In his statements, Wilder, 35, said that "I will go to my grave with my beliefs. I do not have to manipulate my gloves, I do not have to do those things. Instead, you do not have power, nor are you an artist of the knockout. I came out on my feet, but I had a disloyal coach."

Immediately Fury, 33, responded by saying "that was a knockout", who managed to drop Wilder twice in the last fight. "I'm not afraid of you because you're a little liar, an insecure guy. You're already getting knocked out."

In back-and-forth accusations, Fury added that "everything you say is true, what I put in the gloves was my fists," adding that Deas had been involved since he inspected the gloves. "I don't have to deny it, it's all true, I used my knuckles."

He added that "Wilder is mentally weak and I am going to knock him out. I erased him in the rematch and I see the same thing in the third fight."

While Wilder has made a series of excuses for the loss, arguing that his uniform to get into the ring weighed more than 40 pounds and that it weakened his legs, or that Breland conspired against him.

When they first met in December 2018, Fury settled for a draw, though he appeared to win every round, aside from the ones Wilder fell in, in rounds 9 and 12.

Saturday's fight aside from the lure they've made with their press conference assaults, there's the fact that whichever fighter wins will be close to a bout for the undisputed heavyweight title.