Deontay Wilder blames commentators for Tyson Fury draw

Deontay Wilder has sensationally blamed the commentators for robbing him of victory over Tyson Fury. The 33-year-old claimed fans “don’t know what the hell they’re looking at” after his draw with the Gypsy King in December. He told Seconds Out: "I beat Fury. The first four rounds are me easy, the fifth round is also. The only way people move that narrative like that [is] because of the commentary, the commentaries of Showtime, Paulie Malignaggi, all of them, especially Paulie. I won the first four rounds easily." When asked if he believes he was treated badly by the commentary team, he said: "Most definitely. Look at when I fight other guys, even with the [Luis] Ortiz fight, there's always something pushed through the challenger and not me. There's always something good said about them and it's always what I should be doing or need to be doing. "It's never 'bigging' me up, no one ever sees the greatness of what I'm doing until I just pop somebody in the middle of their sentence complimenting the other opponent. When you have it like that, you paint a narrative to the other people that are on the outside looking in. "They say: 'Oh, he [Wilder] got beat 10 to 2,' when they [the fans] don't even know what the hell they are looking at, they don't even know how to score a card. I thank God that I had smart judges, to read through the things Fury was doing because he can also egg on the judging decision. When he [Fury] does, at the end of the round, all the taunting, them only tactics when the round over when you never won. "It's trying to make people say oh I'm still here, I won, I got the more energy. He [Fury] wasn't doing anything, he was missing a lot of punches. Forget the draw as that wasn't any draw, I knocked him out, Jack Reese [the referee] showed favouritism, he had an emotional connection to Fury because of his story along with everybody else. Along with the commentary because they had an emotional connection."

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