Deontay Wilder can't say he wasn't warned. For weeks, Tyson Fury had openly laid out his game plan for the most eagerly-anticipated heavyweight showdown since Lennox Lewis knocked out Mike Tyson almost two decades earlier.
Fury's languid back-foot style was binned and in its place a new, aggressive come-forward strategy designed to right the wrongs of his first meeting with Wilder.
Few believed the scheming Traveller would follow through with his plan, least of all the man in the opposite corner. By the end of the first round, however, the doubters were silent and what followed was nothing short of a masterpiece.
Here, on the anniversary weekend of Fury's famous victory on the Las Vegas Strip, is the inside story of his journey from the
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