24-7 Fantastamatic: A Bloody Tyson Fury Defeats Otto Wallin

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After two rounds of relatively light sparring, Fury backed into a corner with about half-a-minute left in the third, where the southpaw Wallin, twenty-eight, landed a sharp left that drew first blood. When Fury returned to his stool at the end of the round, the damage became plainly visible: a gory crevasse had opened up on his right eyebrow, along with a smaller cut on the lid, sending rivulets of blood down his face. For the rest of the fight, Fury seemed troubled by limited vision and repeatedly swiped at the blood with his glove. As the rounds went by, and Fury continued hemorrhaging, both fighters, as well as Referee Tony Weeks, resembled participants in a La Tomatina festival.

It took seeing his own blood for Fury to settle down to business and abandon his usual hot dog act. This tendency to clown, reflected in showboating defensive moves that left him vulnerable to a knockdown blow from Deontay Wilder in the ninth round of their 2018 matchup, nearly cost him the fight against Wallin. When Fury backed into a corner late in the third, it was for no other reason than to razzle-dazzle. He shimmied, with one hand on the top rope, while Wallin advanced, eventually landing the left that almost separated Fury from his lucrative pay-per-view date with Wilder.

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