Record-setting night cements Tyson Fury's heavyweight legacy

LONDON — Tyson Fury announced himself as «The King.» He sat on a throne. And then he got it all done against challenger Dillian Whyte in six rounds and left undefeated with the British boxing public in his grasp. It was a job done just as he said it would go down.

There's a thin line between the ridiculous and the impressive with Fury's ring walks, but in front of a record-breaking crowd at Wembley Stadium, Fury (32-0-1, 23 KOs) had the masses in the palm of his hand — and with it the status as one of the biggest stars in British sport and the face of heavyweight boxing. After brief flash points in the fourth round, it was all Fury as he kept Whyte (28-3, 19 KOs) at bay and floored him with 10 seconds left in the sixth with a right uppercut. Whyte rose to his feet but stumbled into the arms of referee Mark Lyson, who then waved the fight off to send him to his third career defeat.

After his memorable trilogy against Deontay Wilder, this was Fury's homecoming. And it was also affirmation of the journey he has been on from the depths of depression to returning to the ring with all the fanfare and delivering to retain the WBC and The Ring world heavyweight title belts.

It was a record-breaking attendance: the official tally of 94,000 fans saw it surpass any previous boxing fight in Europe in history, edging out the 90,000 who attended Anthony Joshua's career-making victory over Wladimir Klitschko almost exactly five years ago. Officially speaking, on a night records tumbled, it was the highest attendance for a boxing event since the Julio Cesar Chavez-Greg Haugen match, which drew 132,274 in Mexico City in 1993.

When Joshua floored Klitschko in that Wembley classic, he was the star draw in British boxing. It was the fight