• Rematch between the pair looks likely after draw in LA
On a night full of surprises Tyson Fury saved the biggest curveball for after the final bell.
The 30-year-old from Manchester was hardly alone in believing he had done enough to outpoint Deontay Wilder in Saturday night’s heavyweight title fight in Los Angeles. Yet rather than linger on the result, Fury was impossibly gracious in the immediate aftermath and nothing short of effervescent when he arrived at the post-fight press conference in the bowels of the Staples Center: thanking Wilder, thanking the TV networks, thanking America. Everybody but the beer vendors on the mezzanine.
Written by Bryan Armen Graham at the Staples Center in Los Angeles
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/02/tyson-fury-deontay-wilder-controversial-decision-boxing under the title “‘I’m not going to scream robbery’ – Fury relaxed about controversial Wilder decision”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.