First of all, let's all acknowledge that we witnessed in incredible fight tonight. I'm definitely in the minority here tonight, but I had Wilder 114-112 in this fight. Here is my scorecard: Wilder 10-9 (close) Wilder 10-9 (more power punches) Fury 10-9 (close) Wilder 10-9 (close) Wilder 10-9 (close) Fury 10-9 Fury 10-9 Fury 10-9 (close) Wilder 10-8 Fury 10-9 Fury 10-9 (close) Wilder 10-8 I don't have a dog in this fight. What I saw in the early rounds, personally, was Fury expending a lot of energy without doing anything effective. Wilder was jabbing along with him in the early rounds and getting in an occasional power shot - which Fury didn't throw until the middle rounds. My point is that there wasn't much to choose from between *either* guy in the early rounds, so both fighters have no one to blame but themselves for how the judges ultimately scored those rounds. It was tit for tat until Fury started putting together combinations in the middle rounds and Deontay's jab started to become less frequent and less effective. In those rounds, it WAS a boxing clinic...but not the early rounds. ESPN had it 114-112 Wilder and the AP had it 113-113. I have no problem with a draw on this one. I can't jump on the robbery bandwagon for this fight - Tyson was the far better boxer tonight overall, but he waited a bit too long to establish that IMO (and the 10-8 rounds didn't help). Either way, what in incredible heavyweight fight to close out 2018.
