Deontay Wilder once named Tyson Fury as one of his coldest knock outs

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder played out one of the greatest boxing stories in the history of the sport during their trilogy, with the opening fight still irking Wilder.

The trilogy ended with back-to-back wins for the Gypsy King who won by both bouts by tactical knockout.

However, the curtain raiser was much more controversial, with the fight ending in a draw after a huge knockdown from Wilder late on.

It looked like for all the world Fury was gone and the fight was over, but the Mancunian didn’t want to give up his undefeated record that easily.

To the shock of the millions of viewers, Fury got up from the canvas against all the odds and finished the fight.

Wilder was asked about his greatest knockouts during an Instagram live session, with him listing the Fury ‘knockout’ as one of the best even though it didn’t actually count with Fury getting back to his feet.

Talking to his followers, Wilder had the following to say on it: “And the 12th round knockout of Fury, because I definitely knocked his ass out. I won that fight hands down.”

“I definitely knocked him out. The referee was Jack Reiss and if you go back and look at any of his fights, he stops a lot of fights early.”

“Sometimes they don’t even get to get up and he’s waving it off.”

“When I knocked Fury out I literally seen it with my own self, that’s one of the reasons why I was so surprised.”

“Not only with the count, but I seen this man’s eyes rolled back into his head, that’s how this s**t was.”

“I seen his veins popping out his head and I knew he had a concussion. He was gone, that’s a wave off, period.”

The Bronze Bomber also criticised the referee in his rant, claiming he gave Fury more time than he should have to get up.

He accused the referee, Jack Reiss