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Boxing: Tyson Fury ranks Deontay Wilder ahead of Anthony Joshua
Current World heavyweight champion, Tyson Fury, has insisted that American boxer, Deontay Wilder, is still the second-best heavyweight in the world ahead of British fighter, Anthony Joshua.
The 31-year-old became a two-time world heavyweight champions after defeating Wilder in Las Vegas last February.
Fury and Wilder are set to fight again for a trilogy fight later this year before the Gypsy King will contest against Joshua in 2021 to crown the undisputed heavyweight world champion.
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Joshua currently holds the IBF, WBA and WBO belts, but Fury believes his fellow British is below Wilder’s level.
“Deontay Wilder is the second-best heavyweight in the world,” Fury told Queensbury Promotions YouTube channel.
“I believe he knocks Anthony Joshua out and everyone behind me.
“Everybody else out there, I think he knocks them out because me being a master boxer and people think ‘just go forward on Deontay Wilder now you knock him out’.”
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