(London) An uppercut from elsewhere and the KO. Tyson Fury blasted Dillian Whyte on Saturday in London to retain his invincibility and his WBC heavyweight belt, by knockout in the sixth round, after a fight presented as the last of the career of the “Gypsy King”.
Posted at 5:59 p.m.
Updated at 6:55 p.m.
A big favorite in this fight, Fury, 33, has repeated in recent weeks that he will retire after this clash. “I think it’s the end curtain for the Gypsy King,” he said immediately after his victory.
But as often, the assertions of the British, character as eccentric as whimsical, are to be taken with tweezers.
Anyway, on Saturday, the 2.06 m giant electrified the approximately 90,000 spectators at Wembley and increased his unbeaten record to 33 fights (a draw).
The temple of English football was the scene of a great boxing moment, Fury’s first fight in his country since 2018 and also his first since the end of the dantesque trilogy against the American Deontay Wilder, who will remain one of the most beautiful pages in the history of noble art.
Relaxed as usual — he landed in his underpants to cheer on a sparring partner who was fighting earlier in the evening — Tyson Fury made his entrance at the stroke of 11 p.m. in a giant nightclub atmosphere.
The day after a surprisingly festive weigh-in between the two adversaries, he stepped into the ring lit up by thousands of cell phones to the tune ofAmerican Piehis cult song sung in a clip by Don McLean, his original performer.
Reverence
Opposite, Dillian Whyte, 34 and former sparring partner of Fury, entered the fight solidly. But the Briton of Jamaican origin, saved from delinquency by boxing and passed through kickboxing and MMA, found it difficult to free himself afterwards.
Fury was able to use his size and incredible wingspan to keep Whyte at bay, who looked clumsy and awkward.
In a choppy confrontation, he gradually wore down his challenger, cut in the right eye after an accidental clash of heads, with clever if not flamboyant boxing. Then, as if out of nowhere, an uppercut of monumental power finally sent Whyte flying at the very end of the 6and round.
The challenger managed to get up before staggering into the arms of the referee who ended the fight.
World boxing superstar, who has gone through very dark phases between depression, suicidal ideation and suspension for doping, Tyson Fury believes that he no longer has anything to prove.
He now plans to “lay on the beach, drink pina coladas, drive Ferraris and live on a boat”. All thanks to the 150 million dollars in his bank account.
But boxing fans find it hard to believe that the “King of the Gypsies” can leave the rings before a fight against Anthony Joshua or the Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk to aim for the unification of all the world belts.
The retrospective of the most beautiful moments of his career broadcast on the screens of the stadium just before his entrance and his statements still gave an air of reverence.
“I promised my wife Paris that after the third fight against (Deontay) Wylder, I was quitting, and I meant it,” he said. “But I was offered the opportunity to fight at home at Wembley and I owed the English public a fight at Wembley. Now it is done”.
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