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Quote from: Zicadis on February 26, 2020, 12:08:18 PM

Quote from: hilariousetc on February 26, 2020, 11:48:31 AM

You seem to contradict yourself here. I don't really believe his excuse but if it did effect him then it would have effected him from the start since he was carrying all that weight in.

What I mean is it surely had an affect on his performance overall, but the difference wouldn't be so great as to cause him to get dominated from the first round.

Deontay Wilder is a world class athlete, carrying around 20kg isnt a huge amount of weight especially when distributed over your entire body, even if he was wearing it for 15 mins.

As such, I can see how he would be slightly tired in the first round, but not to the degree that he should get completely smashed by FUry from the first 10 seconds of round 1.

Apparently he's self-outed himself on this. On the Joe Rogan podcast a few months ago he stated he trains with a weighted vest that is far heavier than his ringwalk outfit:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/footage-emerges-casts-doubt-deontay-21584457

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Deontay Wilder's bewildering excuse for his defeat by Tyson Fury has been exposed - by the fighter's own interview.

The dethroned heavyweight champion claimed the extravagant outfit which he wore for his ring walk weakened his legs as he fell to a seventh-round stoppage defeat.

But footage has re-emerged of the American revealing he trains in a vest which is even heavier than his costume on Saturday night.

In the interview with Joe Rogan in 2018, Wilder says: "We do everything at rapid speed, if we do anything which consists of me moving my feet, it's a sprint.

"I wear a 45lb vest on me as well for all my exercises and everything I do to have the extra weight on."

I guess he could have been lying or exaggerating the first time but my money is on the excuse for his performance being the lie/exaggeration.

Quote from: JollyGood on February 26, 2020, 12:25:23 PM

40% of the re-match purse still will many millions of USD$ but will it be enough to entice Wilder to trigger the re-match? He has well over 3 weeks to make up his mind, I am sure Wilder and his team will go over everything. Even if he triggers the clause for the re-match he might not be able to fight in the stipluated time-frame because it will take time after the operation on his ear to heal.

What operation? Source? Apparently he just needed some stitches which will be long-healed by the time a rematch happens which will be in the summer if it goes ahead.