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The Sunday Mirror|January 03, 2021
Joshua v Fury is fight everyone wants to see after they both crushed it in 2020... and even Iron Mike Tyson made a dramatic return aged 54
TOM HOPKINSON
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AS chants of ‘You big dosser’ echoed around the MGM Grand Garden Arena from Tyson Fury’s fans, the man they were there to support backed WBC heavyweight world champion, Deontay Wilder, into a corner.

A straight right from the Gypsy King – not for the first time – jolted Wilder’s head.

And as he followed up with another right to the head, one to the body and swinging left hand, the towel that had been in the hands of Mark Breland, one of the American’s trainers, looped up over the ropes and into the ring.

Breland had decided his man had suffered enough in what had been a devastating display from Fury.

One that had seen him school the Bronze Bomber over seven-and-a-half rounds to complete a remarkable turnaround after finding himself on life’s canvas three-and-a-half years earlier when mental health problems took hold on the back of his first world-title triumph.

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