“I’m going to annihilate this motherf***er.' Dillian Whyte's silent treatment is all too familiar to Tyson Fury after confrontation with Derek Chisora at 2014 press conference
Tyson Fury may be getting the silent treatment from Dillian Whyte ahead of their Wembley showdown, but it was once the undefeated heavyweight champ who gagged himself after the only time he truly lost it at a press conference.
Almost every one of his media stunts are done with a glint in the eye, ‘The Gypsy King’ holding court and in complete control. Except when he squared up to Derek Chisora in 2014, a press conference that began with the pair shaking hands on a £100,000 bet on the outcome of their fight and ended with Fury losing his temper and almost his boxing licence after he tried to attack Chisora on stage.
and security got between the pair. By this stage Fury had removed his tracksuit top and was reaching round with Mr Tickle-length arms, trying to get his hands in Chisora’s face. And he did not want to give Del Boy a tickling. “I’ll knock him out right now,” ranted Fury. “I’ll beat that bitch up right here!”
The boxers had at least shaken on their £100,000 side bet, though Chisora seemed keen to knock off a zero. “We can accept anything he wants [but] £10,000 is a better number,” he said. “We don’t want to chuck money around and people think these guys are show-offs… People are struggling to get that money.”
In 2013, he was a brash, big-mouthed heavyweight who’d picked up the British heavyweight title but had been floored by cruiserweight Steve Cunningham in his last outing and was utterly unproven at world level. When he signed to fight David Haye, he was a significant underdog. After all, ‘The Hayemaker’ was a two-weight world champion and while Fury had won a tough 12-round decision over Chisora , Haye had easily blasted the same opponent out in five rounds.
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