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4th December 2018
09:11pm GMT

"I was sound asleep on the floor. All of a sudden, I opened my eyes and I jumped up.
"But he had said to me [before the fight], he said to me, 'if you get knocked down, I won't stop the fight.' He said, 'I'll tell you to step to the left and step to the right and if you can do and you tell me you're alright then I won't stop the fight.'
"And then when he asked me if I was alright, I said 'yes.' He told me to go the left, I went to the left. He told me to go to the right, I went to the right.
"He also said, being the most experienced referee in America, he said, 'if you're not capable, then I'll stop the fight. But if you can continue....'"
Fury was obviously more than able to continue and less than a minute after lying motionless on the canvas, he returned to his showboating ways and put his hands behind his back in a bid to goad Wilder into overcommitting when most hurt fighters would have simply been in survival mode.Explore more on these topics:

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