Even more significantly, the 33-year-old has a natural aptitude for boxing. He looked badly shaken when he went down twice in the same round, for the first time in his career, but Fury has remarkable powers of recovery. The conclusion of their epic trilogy confirmed that Fury is, unequivocally, the superior fighter. But the 35-year-old from Alabama refused to surrender and, even when he was exhausted and depleted, he kept looking to land one last thunderous right hand. Wilder was sent to hospital, as a precaution, for he had been knocked down three times and, more worryingly, had absorbed one hard punch after another to the head. This was a riveting contest, elevated by courage and resolve, but it was also a damaging fight which will have torn hidden chunks from both men. A sad look of fresh disappointment stole across his face and he closed his left eye as if he felt an unsettling pressure in his head.ДЄll these private little moments were moving and sombre reminders of how much boxing takes from even its greatest champions. Each nod seemed a search for consolation that, at least, the brutal fight was over. His fiancГ©e, Telli Swift, stood helplessly at ringside, blinking back her own tears and nodding again and again. At least the beaten boxer looked alert as he listened. The doctor pressed a pad against WilderвЂ™s lip and talked softly to him. On his stool, Wilder looked up at the masked doctor while more blood seeped from his left ear. Blood coated WilderвЂ™s lower lip, smearing it crimson, while a small swelling rose beneath his right eye. It was a very different scene in the opposite corner. He found his wife, Paris, and kissed her wearily before he was engulfed again by the madness of heavyweight boxing and the demands for his post-fight reaction in a ring seething with people. He stood to the right of Fury, his hand on the championвЂ™s arm, as the prayer continued amid the falling tears. Tim Allcock, FuryвЂ™s close friend who runs their camp with Shane, completed the picture in the winning corner. The fact that he had come close to stopping Fury in the fourth round, when the champion went down heavily twice, drove on Wilder until all his valiant resistance was eventually beaten out of him. The American had shown immense bravery and, at least until the final round, he kept trying to unleash one last shattering punch to rescue himself from defeat. It was a gentle and comforting gesture which confirmed how clearly he understood that his big brother had come through some dark and testing moments before Fury again dominated Wilder. His brother Shane, a big shaggy bear of a man, covered the championвЂ™s bald head with his hand.

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