Deontay Wilder accuses Tyson Fury of loading gloves, avoiding him

Deontay Wilder has accused Tyson Fury of loading his gloves in their fights and demanded that Fury give him a third fight.

Deontay Wilder finally had his say. And it got weird.

The former heavyweight titleholder, speaking on a Twitter video and also tweeting, accused rival Tyson Fury of loading his gloves before their two fights and “trying to weasel out of our agreement” to fight a third time.

Wilder and Fury fought to a controversial draw in 2018. Fury stopped Wilder in the seventh round in their February rematch, after which Wilder exercised a clause in their contract that reportedly requires Fury to give him a third fight.

They were originally scheduled to meet in July but the date was pushed back multiple times. Finally, when it appeared that the fight wouldn’t take place until next year, Fury decided to move on. He’s scheduled to fight on Dec. 5, although no opponent has been selected.

First, the alleged loaded gloves: “I saw in the first fight when Ricky Hatton was pulling down your gloves to put your fists in the improper position,” Wilder said on the video. “Y’all tried the same method the second time, but this time, you scratched flesh out of my ears which caused my ears to bleed.

“It’s impossible for a brand-new 10-ounce glove to bend, to keep a smushed-in form or to have loose space. I highly believe you put something hard in your glove. Something the size and the shape of an egg weight. It’s the reason the side of my face swelled up in the egg weight form and it left a dent in my face as well.

“But in the midst of all, you still couldn’t keep this king down. You would have had to kill me. In the end, it took a crap-in-a-bucket referee (Kenny Bayless) and a disloyal trainer (Mark Breland) to throw the towel in just to stop me.”

Fury dismissed the loaded-gloves conspiracy when Wilder’s brother made the same allegation earlier, saying Wilder trainer Jay Deas would have had to be in on plot because he watched Fury put on his gloves.

Bob Bennett, the Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, told ESPN that Wilder’s latest allegations are “absolutely false.” The official said gloves for championship fights are monitored from the time they arrive from the factory to the time they’re placed on the fighter’s fist, meaning it would be extremely difficult to doctor them.

And Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter, blasted Wilder in an interview with iFL TV.

“For him to castigate Kenny Bayless, the referee, and Mark Breland, his chief corner man, the way he did is disgraceful,” Arum said. “They acted properly and they saved Wilder’s life from taking any further punishment when he was completely out and getting thrashed by Tyson Fury.

“Secondly, this talk about the way gloves the way he did is disgraceful, because you have to understand the situation with the gloves in the state of Nevada where the fight took place. … Nobody, nobody, can tamper with the gloves.

“I mean, what he has done is taken something probably from a movie that used to happen maybe in the ’30s and ’40s and used that as a conspiracy to explain how he got beaten, and decisively beaten by Tyson Fury.

“It is reprehensible for him to do something like that, and it defies all belief for anybody that knows how these things happen. … What Wilder said is a sham.”

Wilder tweeted that Fury is trying to avoid him.

“When you were going through your darkest time, I told you that if you got yourself together I would give you a title shot,” he wrote. “Being a man of my word, I gave you the title shot. When that fight was a draw, I told you that I would give you a rematch.

“You know I was offered more money to fight [Anthony] Joshua than I was getting to fight you. Again, being a man of my word, I fought you like I said I would. In the rematch agreement, there was a rematch clause.

“Now it is time for you to be a man and honor your word, instead of trying to weasel out of our agreement.”

Deontay Wilder accuses Tyson Fury of loading gloves, avoiding him

Deontay Wilder has accused Tyson Fury of loading his gloves in their fights and demanded that Fury give him a third fight.

Deontay Wilder finally had his say. And it got weird.

The former heavyweight titleholder, speaking on a Twitter video and also tweeting, accused rival Tyson Fury of loading his gloves before their two fights and “trying to weasel out of our agreement” to fight a third time.

Wilder and Fury fought to a controversial draw in 2018. Fury stopped Wilder in the seventh round in their February rematch, after which Wilder exercised a clause in their contract that reportedly requires Fury to give him a third fight.

They were originally scheduled to meet in July but the date was pushed back multiple times. Finally, when it appeared that the fight wouldn’t take place until next year, Fury decided to move on. He’s scheduled to fight on Dec. 5, although no opponent has been selected.

First, the alleged loaded gloves: “I saw in the first fight when Ricky Hatton was pulling down your gloves to put your fists in the improper position,” Wilder said on the video. “Y’all tried the same method the second time, but this time, you scratched flesh out of my ears which caused my ears to bleed.

“It’s impossible for a brand-new 10-ounce glove to bend, to keep a smushed-in form or to have loose space. I highly believe you put something hard in your glove. Something the size and the shape of an egg weight. It’s the reason the side of my face swelled up in the egg weight form and it left a dent in my face as well.

“But in the midst of all, you still couldn’t keep this king down. You would have had to kill me. In the end, it took a crap-in-a-bucket referee (Kenny Bayless) and a disloyal trainer (Mark Breland) to throw the towel in just to stop me.”

Fury dismissed the loaded-gloves conspiracy when Wilder’s brother made the same allegation earlier, saying Wilder trainer Jay Deas would have had to be in on plot because he watched Fury put on his gloves.

Bob Bennett, the Executive Director of the Nevada State Athletic Commission, told ESPN that Wilder’s latest allegations are “absolutely false.” The official said gloves for championship fights are monitored from the time they arrive from the factory to the time they’re placed on the fighter’s fist, meaning it would be extremely difficult to doctor them.

And Bob Arum, Fury’s co-promoter, blasted Wilder in an interview with iFL TV.

“For him to castigate Kenny Bayless, the referee, and Mark Breland, his chief corner man, the way he did is disgraceful,” Arum said. “They acted properly and they saved Wilder’s life from taking any further punishment when he was completely out and getting thrashed by Tyson Fury.

“Secondly, this talk about the way gloves the way he did is disgraceful, because you have to understand the situation with the gloves in the state of Nevada where the fight took place. … Nobody, nobody, can tamper with the gloves.

“I mean, what he has done is taken something probably from a movie that used to happen maybe in the ’30s and ’40s and used that as a conspiracy to explain how he got beaten, and decisively beaten by Tyson Fury.

“It is reprehensible for him to do something like that, and it defies all belief for anybody that knows how these things happen. … What Wilder said is a sham.”

Wilder tweeted that Fury is trying to avoid him.

“When you were going through your darkest time, I told you that if you got yourself together I would give you a title shot,” he wrote. “Being a man of my word, I gave you the title shot. When that fight was a draw, I told you that I would give you a rematch.

“You know I was offered more money to fight [Anthony] Joshua than I was getting to fight you. Again, being a man of my word, I fought you like I said I would. In the rematch agreement, there was a rematch clause.

“Now it is time for you to be a man and honor your word, instead of trying to weasel out of our agreement.”