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Top moments from Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder III

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Eleven rounds, five knockdowns, and a heavyweight trilogy settled for good at T-Mobile Arena.

Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder closed the book on one of boxing’s great modern rivalries on October 9, 2021, in Las Vegas, and it lived up to every bit of the hype. The WBC and lineal heavyweight champion defended his belt against the man he’d already fought twice before, and the two heavyweights, both fighting at career-heaviest weights, traded knockdowns in front of 15,820 fans at T-Mobile Arena. By the time it ended in the eleventh round, Fury had delivered exactly the kind of chaotic, momentum-swinging classic their first two fights promised.

• Fury (277 pounds) and Wilder (238 pounds) both entered at their heaviest fight weights ever, and the bout produced five knockdowns across eleven rounds.
• Wilder rocked Fury with two knockdowns in round four after Fury had dropped him in round three, before Fury took over and finished it in round eleven.
• Referee Russell Mora stopped the fight at 1:10 of round eleven, giving Fury a knockout win and pushing his record to 31-0-1 with 22 KOs.

An Early Fury Knockdown Sets the Tone

The trilogy fight didn’t waste any time delivering drama. In round three, Fury landed a sharp right hook that put Wilder on the canvas — a shot so clean that Fury himself nearly turned his own ankle throwing it. It looked, for a moment, like the champion might be on his way to a straightforward night’s work.

Wilder had other plans. Boxing insiders had spent the build-up talking about his singular power, the kind of one-punch equalizer that had ended 21 of his previous fights inside the distance, and round four is exactly why that reputation persists.

Wilder’s Fourth-Round Storm

Wilder answered Fury’s third-round knockdown by turning the fight upside down. He blasted Fury with flush right hands, dropping the champion twice in round four alone — a stretch that had the T-Mobile Arena crowd on its feet and briefly flipped the entire complexion of the bout. Fury beat both counts — same as he did back in 2018, when Wilder dropped him too and Fury still got up to see out that first fight.

“Don’t ever doubt me when the chips are down. I can always deliver.”

That quote, delivered by Fury after the final bell, captured exactly what round four demanded of him. Getting up twice against a puncher like Wilder is one thing; regrouping enough to win the fight afterward is another entirely.

Fury Grinds Wilder Down

From round five onward, Fury reasserted the game plan that’s defined his career: heavy jabs, relentless clinching, and suffocating close-quarters bodywork designed to sap Wilder’s legs and his output. It worked. Fury added another knockdown in round ten, and by round eleven Wilder was visibly spent, unable to match the pace Fury had imposed.

The finish came at 1:10 of round eleven — a crushing right hand that sent an exhausted Wilder face-first to the canvas. Russell Mora waved it off immediately, no count necessary. Fury’s record moved to 31-0-1 with 22 knockouts, and the trilogy that began with a controversial split draw in 2018 and continued with Fury’s seventh-round TKO in 2020 finally had its definitive answer.

Fury’s Celebration and the Handshake Snub

True to form, Fury marked the win with a singalong, serenading the Las Vegas crowd with “Walking in Memphis” once the ring cleared. He also noted, pointedly, that Wilder initially refused to shake his hand after the fight — a detail Fury brought up himself in the moments after being declared the winner, underscoring just how personal this three-fight series had become between the two men.

Fury’s trilogy win over Wilder now sits alongside the other heavyweight moments boxing fans replay for years — the kind of night that gets mentioned in the same breath as the sport’s other iconic comeback performances, the type covered in pieces like Top 10 Celebrity Comebacks: Stars Silencing Disrespectful Interviewers. For a broader sense of how 2021’s biggest sports and pop-culture moments stacked up against each other, Controversial Celeb Moments In 2021 No One Will Forget rounds out the year’s headline-grabbing stretch.