Deontay Wilder Stands By Claim That Tyson Fury Cheated In Rematch

Deontay Wilder still believes Tyson Fury cheated in their rematch.

Wilder and Fury had their highly-anticipated rematch in Februray of 2020 where Fury scored a seventh-round TKO. It was a dominant fight but since the loss, Wilder have accues Fury of cheating and he has said he is standing by it.

“I don’t regret it and I’ll go to my grave believing what I believe in,” Wilder said at their press conference. “I know things for fact, I have confirmation, clarity of a lot of things. One thing about it: men lie, women lie, but your eyes don’t lie with what you see. People can believe what they want, we’re all human, but the eyes don’t lie, and it only made me better as a man, as a fighter to understand, to see things and know things for facts. It made me even hungrier than before.”

Fury, meanwhile, says he knows he didn’t cheat but jokes he will again.

“I don’t care because, obviously, it comes from an unwell person,” Fury responded on MMAFighting’s MMA Hour. “He accused me of everything, accused his team, his trainer, the suit, injuries, the [Nevada Athletic Commission]—they were in it as well—the referee, and whoever else.

“Maybe if he had come up with one of these excuses, it would’ve been believable, but not 15 of them. Come on,” Fury said. “He can believe what he wants, but what it tells me is that he’s a weak mental person who I’m gonna knock out on Saturday night. I beat him the first time after three years out of the ring, quite comfortably too. I absolutely obliterated him in the rematch. This third fight I can see it as more of the same.

“Wilder said I only won the second fight because I cheated, but then he goes and changes his whole team and does this extra training—trains as hard as he’s ever trained—and all of that,” Fury continued. “So I ask the question: if I only won because of cheating, what was the point of changing everything and doing all of this other work? Can anybody answer that question? I know he can’t because he doesn’t have the brains to [answer it].”

What do you make of Deontay Wilder standing by that Tyson Fury cheated?