Fury, 12 years younger than the 39-year-old Klitschko, taunted and baited the champion at various stages, prompting jeers from fans.
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Wladimir Klitschko’s face told the story of the bout.
The 27-year-old Brit overcame the weight of history, overturned the bookies’ odds and defied the Ukrainian’s decade-long stranglehold on the heavyweight division to secure a memorable unanimous victory in Germany.
“Why do we have to mention Deontay Wilder?”.
“I knew all along I could win the fight”, Fury said. Let’s have a laugh at his name.
Kell Brook, the IBF welterweight champion, tweeted: “Just heard, WOW congratulations to @Tyson_Fury I had kilt to win I hold my hands up! well done unbelievable for British boxing!”
To say it was his first world title opportunity against a vastly experienced fighter, you could have been fooled as Fury had a swagger about him in the opening exchanges, with the second round slightly more even than the first but Fury looked in control. “I’d love to knock a few of them out”. “I will be the most charismatic champion since Muhammad Ali”, he said before serenading his wife in the crowd with a song by American band Aerosmith.
“I think I have showed my true colours over the years”.
But on Sunday (AEDT), Fury – who now stands 206cm tall and weighs in at 112kg – pulled off one of the biggest boxing shocks of recent memory, when he dethroned long-time champ Wladimir Klitschko to win the heavyweight championship of the world.
“If I could be half as good a champion as Wladimir Klitschko I would be very, very happy”.
“I wish I could have landed more clean shots”. We just had camp after camp after camp and as you can see it has paid dividends because I wasn’t exhausted last night after doing 12 rounds – I probably could have gone the distance if it was a 15-rounder.
‘I never took my eyes off him during the stare-off.
“So why would I be bothered about a novice like Wilder?” Twenty-five fights now, three world title eliminators, so I earned my right to be here.
He said his rise to become Heavyweight Champion was not easy and despite being undefeated so far in his career, he was constantly written off. “I wasn’t given anything for free”, Fury said.
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“Father Time” catches up with every fighter in the end, and having also embraced fatherhood recently, late on in his life, we may well have witnessed the end good and proper, of the Wladimir Klitschko era.
