🌎 Tyson Fury Owns The World

He destroyed Deontay Wilder. He sang after his win. He has the perfect name. Truly, boxing belongs to the new WBC Heavyweight champion. [View in browser]( [FOX SPORTS INSIDER WITH MARTIN ROGERS] In today’s FOX Sports Insider: Tyson Fury stuns the boxing world with his absurdly dominant win over Deontay Wilder ... Madison Bumgarner’s surprise rodeo personality is revealed ... and we remember Kobe on the day of a Celebration of Life. It’s as perfect a name as you could dream of for the world heavyweight champion, but Tyson Fury doesn’t just live up to his remarkable moniker. He exceeds it. For while “Tyson” evokes memories of a certain hammer-fisted whirlwind who peaked in the 1980s, and “Fury” elicits images of violent fire within the boxing ring, the sport’s latest megastar is more complex, and a lot more fascinating, than if he simply possessed a lethal punch. Fury’s demolition of Deontay Wilder at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night was in some ways astonishing and in others made perfect sense. We are starting to understand him a little better now, this eccentric, unpredictable and sometimes downright bizarre Englishman. [STORY IMAGE 1] At the moment of his greatest triumph we saw that for all the tomfoolery, the outlandish suits and ridiculous comments and various absurdities, Fury is a true fighting man at heart. And he knows what he’s doing. He humbled the ferocious Wilder, owner of the most feared fists on the planet, suffocating him, attacking him, flooring him, outboxing him and inflicting a brutal beating crafted from a deeply intellectual game plan, backed up by gifts that one day will be legend. “I’ve never been the type of boxer to sit down on punches and let fly,” Fury said. “I’ve always been a slick master boxer, jab, move, get out the way of everything.” This time he used all those attributes but also came right at Wilder, rarely taking a backward step, forcing the action and flexing his will. [STORY IMAGE 2] We are still prisoners of image, both as sports fans and humans, and let’s just admit it. It takes a while to accept that a bald, flabby, pasty-skinned goofball might be the most technically brilliant heavyweight for several decades. Yet pugilistic excellence alone has never been enough to bestow true greatness, and Fury has all the extras stardom demands. At times he is pure theater, at others he is devastatingly real. He is a walking, breathing, punching collection of narrative. Of all the things to have weathered in between his first grasp of the heavyweight crown and his second in Sin City, was a battle against alcoholism, drug abuse, depression and suicidal thought. The way he talks about his struggles, laced with the gallows humor of a survivor rather than the impassioned rhetoric of a campaigner, is perhaps more relatable for some than if he truly tried to be a mental health spokesman. By the blueprint of our standard normalcies, he’s a weird guy, with the quirks of both Brits and the traveler community that he – the Gypsy King – hails from. And, whatever your interest level in boxing, he’s worth your time. [STORY IMAGE 3] He does the glitz and hype and razzamatazz as well as anyone. He’s made appearances in the WWE, and he arrived at ringside on Saturday on an elaborate throne. He departed having crooned “American Pie” at a decent vocal cadence, which kind of makes you wonder if the fighting performance backed up the surrounding show or vice versa. “It is amazing because neither of these guys had ever lost,” Nick Wright said on FS1’s First Things First. “It’s not like Fury was fighting a guy that someone else had exploited these weaknesses against.” Either way, expect to see Fury again soon, because after a generation of stagnation under the imposing but dull Klitschko brothers – Vitali and Wladimir – the heavyweight division is now filled with tantalizing opportunity. [STORY IMAGE 4] Make no mistake, though, they are his opportunities. And it’s his division now. All the fights the public might get behind, like it did with this one, necessitate his involvement — whether it be a contractually available Wilder trilogy fight, a portly punch-up with the charismatically rotund Andy Ruiz, or, best of all, a British blockbuster versus Anthony Joshua. “We are going to be putting people to sleep left right and center,” Fury said. “When I came here, they said I couldn’t punch. It’s just started. Not bad for an old fat guy, who can’t punch, eh?” A multi-pronged race of heavyweight superiority no longer exists. The prize is Fury’s. It’s up to the others to try to get it. He’s not Mike Tyson, and he’s not all fire and fury. There’s no one in sports quite like him and boxing is buzzing because of it. [STORY IMAGE 5] Here’s what others have said ... Sean Ingle, The Guardian: “His promoter, Frank Warren, who hailed Fury’s performance as the best he had ever seen from a British fighter in his 40 years in the sport, said he hoped a reunification fight with Anthony Joshua, the Londoner who holds the WBA, IBF and WBO versions of the heavyweight title, would happen next. ‘It would be the biggest sporting event to take place in the UK since England won the World Cup,’ said Warren. ‘You could not be able to get a ticket for it. The country would absolutely stop.’” Kevin Clark, The Ringer: “This was not a fluke. In one of the biggest rematches in recent boxing history, Fury changed his game plan to move forward, walking down Wilder and swarming him with punches. Fury [connected]( on twice as many punches as Wilder and three times as many power punches. Fury beating Wilder is not some massive upset—their rematch was seen as a tossup. Fury beating Wilder by stoppage, with Wilder’s corner calling it a day after the best puncher in the sport struggled to find any power—that was the shock.” Andre Ward, ESPN: “Fury was right. You don't always have to move away from a puncher. Sometimes you have to attack a guy who is not used to being attacked. You have to have the audacity, courage and willingness to attack him, and do the one thing people refuse to do against a guy to see what he does about it. That's what Tyson Fury did.” [IN OTHER WORDS] - Surprise! Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner has been competing in rodeo events for years, under an alias. [The Athletic’s Andrew Baggarly and Zach Buchanan have]( the amazing story. - The NBA’s MVP race is over, according to Tom Ziller of SB Nation, with The Greek Freak clearly at the top. 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Brady will leave money on the table as long as the Patriots don’t try to embarrass him with a low-ball offer.” [THE INTERNET IS UNDEFEATED] [THE INTERNET IS UNDEFEATED]( Monday marked the Celebration of Life for Kobe and Gianna Bryant — an emotional, heartfelt memorial that saw the greatest Kobe stories, countless examples of the Black Mamba’s love for Gigi, and tributes to his legacy on and off the court. It’s also the seven-year anniversary of one of those iconic on-court moments — further proof of what happened whenever Kobe felt the slightest bit overlooked. We miss you, Kobe and Gigi. May you rest in peace. 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