Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder start time, how to look

World Boxing Council heavyweight champions Wilder and Fury will face Sunday at the Staples Center (1 pm AEDT), which could allow the winner to compete in a unification fight.

After exchanging verbal blows in front of reporters on Thursday, the two undefeated heavyweights engaged in an angry confrontation that threatened to escalate into a real fight.

The British challenger Fury finished the press conference at the belt and offered to chat with Wilder while both men were insulting.

Fury, the "King of the Gypsies," who spoke in a rebellious manner, seemed to have clearly agitated Wilder, who seemed by far the most angry of the two fighters.

Fury, 30, who battled depression and addiction to get his shot against Wilder, opened by bluntly declaring that he was hoping to eliminate the US champion, who is 40-0 with 39 goals. KO.

"I'm telling you now, Wilder is going to be knocked out by me on Sunday," said Fury. "On Sunday, the whole world will recognize him as the person Fury knocked out.

"This braggart is not genuine, he is a fake – a devious and a fraudster. I look at him and I do not see a bad man, I see a suitor. "

"NOT A BATTLE OF CULTURES"

Despite his anger, Wilder faced Fury as the two men clashed on the platform, contrasting their respective legacies with a heavy speech.

"You say that your people have been fighting for 200 years? My people have been fighting for 400 years, "said Wilder about Fury, of Irish descent.

Fury, who laughed and joked from the beginning, then claimed to believe that he had waved Wilder.

"He looks very nervous. I did not initiate all that. Her team is nervous and agitated because she knows he will lose, "Fury told reporters.

"He knows he can not get out of the box, so he tries to get me to participate emotionally. He feels the need to scream and shout and all that, but that's what it was.

Fury, for its part, has departed from suggestions that the confrontation could have a racial dimension following Wilder's comments.

"I do not think we should fight this fight in a race battle, or in a battle of cultures or whatever," Fury said.

"It is before all that. We are fighting for the title of the most gentleman, prized champion and heavyweight of the world. He provoked everything. I did not go up there and I started screaming and screaming at her face.

"It started with all 400 years of suffering and all that. He must think that it will get into my head: "Oh, he's had 400 years of suffering, I will not fight him (Sunday) because he's had 400 years." . Do not go there.

"It's not a battle to know who has been persecuted for the longest time. It's a battle between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder. This is not a battle of race cultures. "