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Boxers Deontay Wilder, left, and Tyson Fury exchange words as they face each other during a press conference.
The big punches that Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury expect to launch on Saturday (New Zealand time) were preceded by charged words and an almost physical confrontation.
At the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, Wilder and Fury came face-to-face with an end to the accumulation at the World Heavyweight Title Press Conference Boxing Council at Staples Center.
The tension mounted at the end of their remarks when Fury suggested that Wilder was barely superior to anonymity in the United States, although he was a heavyweight champion.
Wilder (40-0, 39 KO) then revisited Fury's triumph in 2015 following a decision on heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko and said: "You did not beat Klitschko. is beaten, Klitschko did not hit another beast in the ring, you will see … "
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Fury (27-0, 19 KO's) grabbed Wilder's throat and anger flared up. Fury finally taking off his designer shirt to hold his fists in a boxer posture.
"I'm not worried about who knows me or not," Wilder told reporters after calm was restored on stage. "If they do not know me, it suits me because it means that he was knocked out by a stranger."
Wilder also criticized what he perceives as the unequal treatment of Fury's weaknesses in relation to how those same demons would be treated if the unfortunate man was a black man. Fury fought against addiction and mental illness.
Wilder screamed on stage that Fury did not have the right to complain about the discrimination that his hometown community in England had been object to for 200 years, while America was treating blacks so badly for double.
Wilder said the scene had become so inflamed because of "the energy, the emotions, all that had accumulated … I saw this guy so often and that 's it. is the moment when I am changing My mind is different I am not here to play and play games or make jokes or make friends.
"He wants to entertain the American crowd for giving him so much love for mental illness and all that … (Fury) caused all this … himself … you took all that … in the nose, you lifted the bottle (Fury) did it of his own free will because he wanted to have fun, because he had accomplished something big in his life, saying: "I'm not going give a … "He sniffed and drank it."
The perceived double standard ignited Wilder, he said.
"He comes to my country for someone to show him sympathy and pity?" "Damn, no, because if it were me, they would look down on me." They would call me addict … they would call me all kinds of names … so why have mercy on him for a decision … he chose to do that? I'm not going to have any pity on him in this ring. "
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