Deontay Wilder once named his three best knockouts.
The hard-hitting American was once the most feared man in the division but in recent times he has looked a shadow of his former self suffering defeats to Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang last time out.
Before that he took on Tyson Fury in an epic trilogy where in the twelfth round of the first fight he seemingly knocked out ‘The Gypsy King’.
That was until the British heavyweight somehow got back to his feet and even more surprisingly finished the round on the front foot.
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But, when Wilder was asked to name his best KOs, he surprisingly included Tyson Fury.
He told Marcus Watson : “Coldest knockouts? There’s so many.
“I’m gonna give you the ones that pop out in my mind.
“Bermane Stiverne II – I transformed, I had an outer experience with him. It was so crazy.
“Artur Szpilka, Szpilka was another one.
“And the 12th round knockout of Fury, because I definitely knocked his ass out…
“I won that fight hands down.
“Not only with me knocking him out and the ref giving him more time because he felt like it would be the right thing to do because of the type of fight that it was.
“It was a highly anticipated fight, had a lot on the line and sometimes these referees go out of their character feeling like, ‘I’mma do what’s best for the sport,’ instead of what is in the rules.
“I definitely knocked him out. The referee was Jack Reiss and if you go back and look at any of his fights, he stops a lot of fights early.
“Sometimes they don’t even get to get up and he’s waving it off.
“When I knocked Fury out I literally seen it with my own self, that’s one of the reasons why I was so surprised.
“Not only with the count, but I seen this man’s eyes rolled back into his head, that’s how this s*** was.
“I seen his veins popping out his head and I knew he had a concussion. He was gone, that’s a wave off, period.”
OTD, 2018:@Tyson_Fury took Deontay Wilder's best shot in the 12th and rose from the canvas 🤯
An ICONIC moment 🙌pic.twitter.com/mChVyEKb2x
— Boxing on TNT Sports (@boxingontnt) December 1, 2019
