Deontay Wilder was set to face off against Britain’s WBC champion Tyson Fury for the WBC World Heavyweight Championship in Las Vegas on July 24. Ahead of their boxing match, they had a press conference where they could not stop staring at each other. However, that was cancelled after Tyson Fury tested positive for COVID-19. Tyson Fury also leaked bad news related to Wilder’s health previously.
Deontay Wilder’s fiancée, Telli Swift previously spoke to TMZ Sports and claimed that Tyson Fury’s COVID-19 diagnosis is just him trying to buy time before his fight against Deontay Wilder. Malik Scott, the head trainer of Deontay Wilder, recently spoke on The PBC Podcast, where commented on Tyson Fury’s choice of sparring partners. Also the rumors that claimed Tyson Fury was knocked down during a sparring session.
“When you hear those kinds of rumors with this type of high caliber fight, those are not rumors, those are facts. Those so-called rumors came from legitimate sources.
To his credit, I’m not even big on that,” Scott said. “He had Jared Anderson in camp with him, he had Efe [Ajagba] in camp with him, he had Christian [Thun] in camp with him. When I see all those guys he was in camp with, I knew for sure he was getting touched up. I would hope that’s why he was bringing them in, so that he can fight them off and not get touched up, because that’s what you do when you’re trying to prepare for the likes of Deontay Wilder. So it’s not shocking.
“Is it bragging rights to me, or anything like that? Not really. Lots of guys get touched up in sparring. That’s nothing.
“But the thing is when you get discouraged from that, when that can lead you to cancelling the fight, when that can lead you to having demonic nightmares of you fighting Wilder after getting touched up by guys you were sparring — to me that’s where the problem is,” Scott said. “The problem is getting discouraged by the bad days in the gym and wanting to quote-and-quote postpone the fight and cancel the fight.”
