Heavyweight boxing: Wilder and Fury clash at press conference

Three days before their heavyweight bout, boxers Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder clashed at a chaotic press conference.

Ahead of the Heavyweight fight to determine a worthy challenger for the heavyweight’s new king, Anthony Joshua, both boxer could be seen throwing words at each other while fielding questions, before the customary head shot descended into chaos, courtesy of Wilder.

The 33-year old Briton, Fury, declared that “On Saturday night the whole world will know him (Wilder) as the person who Fury knocked out,” while American, Wilder, 33, described Fury as a boxer who made his name in a “small country”.

Recently rehabilitated at a psychiatric institution, Fury tried to get into Wilder’s head and the American finally cracked, yelling at Fury before coming together of heads which prompted a melee which lasted over one minute, and with both boxers’ team involved in the kerfuffle.

Billed as arguably the biggest fight on US soil in over ten years, Deontay Wilder (40-0, 39 KO) will have is WBC heavyweight title on the line against Tyson Fury (27-0, 19 KO) who vacated his Lineal Heavyweight world title in 2016.

The fight will take place in the early hours of Sunday December 2, at the Staples Center, New York.