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Boxing review 2021
JOHN WIGHT looks back on the thrills and spills of Boxing over the past year
Tyson Fury celebrates defeating Deontay Wilder
OVER the course of 2021, boxing served up more than its fair share of thrills and spills.
The third fight in the trilogy between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder went beyond expectations set by their previous two encounters, each man dropping the other twice before Fury closed the show with an emphatic knockout in the 11th round to bring the curtain down on a classic heavyweight trilogy that will be talked about for many a year.
Staying with the heavyweights, and in inverse proportion to the rise in Tyson Fury’s stock in 2021, Anthony Joshua’s took a dent with his defeat to cruiserweight-turned-heavyweight Oleksandr Usyk in September.
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