Deontay Wilder has the highest knockout percentage in heavyweight boxing history.
He has 41 early wins in 43 fights and one draw, for a 95 per cent KO ratio.
That’s more explosive than Rocky Marciano, more concussive than Mike Tyson and more final than George Foreman.
Yet Wilder hit Tyson Fury with a right hook and a follow up left in their first meeting in December 2018, Fury was felled … and got back up again.
Which is why the bookies can barely separate both fighters ahead of Saturday night’s rematch in Las Vegas.
Thepools.com have Wilder as 10/11 to triumph, Fury 19/20 .
That makes the American favourite by the barest of margins if you really want to split them, but in truth the bookies can’t make their minds up.
And it’s why the draw at 20/1 might not be the most outlandish suggestion in the world.
Wilder’s coach Mark Breland, the former WBA welterweight world champ, believed the blow which put Fury down was one of Wilder’s “sloppier” shots.
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“The straight punches have more power,” he said “but even the sloppy rights hurt. If Deontay hits you, he hurts you.”
But Fury stayed out of range when he outpointed Wladimir Klitschko to win the world title in 2015 – and for so much of the Wilder contest he did a good job of staying out of the way.
But he has to do so again – for 36 minutes – if he is to live up to his pre-fight promise to regain the heavyweight championship of the world.
