By Charles Brun: John Fury says he would have hit Deontay Wilder in the mouth if he were a young man in response to Deontay’s comments about Tyson Fury cheating in his fights against him with glove tampering.
It’s scary to imagine what Deontay would have done to a young John Fury if the two tangled without gloves. John, only 6’3″, lacked the massive pachyderm size of his son Tyson, which pretty much rules out him winning a wrestling match against Deontay like we saw the ‘Gypsy King’ do in their second and third fights.
“He can’t take a loss,” said John Fury to The Mirror about Deontay Wilder. “If I was a young man like Tyson [Fury], we would have had a roll around on the carpet,” John continued about Wilder. “I would have hit him both hands straight in the mouth.
“He [Tyson Fury] doesn’t have my fire. If a man insults me, I will hit him straight in the mouth. I said to Tyson, ‘why don’t you hit him?’ He should have been hit,” said John.
You can’t blame Deontay for being upset with the roughhouse tactics that Fury used in their second and third fights. Fury hit Wilder with rabbit punches that would have knocked down a rhino. Those rabbit punches that Fury hit Wilder with were vicious shots, and the referee penalized none of them.
Then, of course, there was the controversy over why the referee gave Fury a count while he was knocked out in thee 12th round of his first fight with Wilder in 2018.
Many boxing fans felt the referee should have stopped the fight on the spot and given Wilder credit for a knockout win because Tyson was out cold. In the third fight, some fans felt that the referee gave a slow count after Wilder dropped Fury in the fourth round.
“How can somebody cheat you when he has been knocked spark out?” said John Fury. “And all this glove business, everything is checked out with WBC officials. Wilder is a sore loser.”
The 58-year-old John Fury, who was little more than a journeyman fighter during his eight-year professional career with a dreadfully poor 8-4-1 ring record, says he feels that his son Tyson should have punched the former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay when he saw him.
Given Wilder’s devasting one-punch power, it probably wouldn’t have been a good idea for the light-hitting Tyson Fury to attack him with his bare fists. You can only imagine what Deontay would do to Fury if he hit him in his lantern chin with a bare fist without gloves to cushion the blow.
Wilder might jump on him and finish him off if Fury went down for good. There wouldn’t be a long count or a referee giving a count to Tyson while he was unconscious, as some fans noted during the first fight when Deontay knocked Fury clean out in the twelfth round