Tonight Wilder and Fury meet in Las Vegas for the biggest heavyweight match of many years.
Two undefeated boxers at the top of their careers - but with a completely different background.
The Englishman Fury comes from a family of several generations of cowards and is a well-trained boxer with a successful amateur career before he has now gone undefeated in 30 professional matches.
American Wilder dropped out of school at the age of 19 when his first daughter Naieya was born with a severe spinal disease (spina bifida, Latin for cleft spine).
Can pass Muhammad AliNaieya needed several surgeries, and Wilder then stepped into a boxing room for the first time in the hope of making quick cash while working early morning workouts for a delivery company.
- I thought I was going to be a mediocre earning a few bucks for his daughter. I could never dream of becoming a heavyweight world champion and tangling Muhammad Ali's ten straight title defenses, Wilder, who now has eight children, tells the BBC.
Tonight, "The Bronze Bomber", who became WBC World Champion 2015, has the opportunity to defend his belt for the eleventh time on the rake. A few heavyweights have succeeded.
Not even Muhammad Ali.
- It will be a fantastic feeling. And when I defeat Fury with another brutal knockout, I will move on to new records, ”says Wilder.
"Is sometimes amateurish"He has gone 43 games and won all but one - the controversial pending verdict in the first meeting with Tyson Fury 2018. A full 41 games have ended with a knockout.
Fury, who was floored twice in the first meeting and miraculously got up in the twelfth round, is fully aware of Wilder's power.
But he is not so impressed by anything else.
- Technically, he's not that good. He is like a seven year old with a fully charged AK47: a in his hands. He is easy to control, but it can fire at any time, Fury tells the BBC.
- Sometimes he strikes from amateurish angles in a way that a world champion would never do. So it's important that I'm alert.
The crowds in Las Vegas start at 3pm and air on Viaplay, but the main game is estimated to start closer to 6am.
CLIP: Word war in progress between Wilder and Fury
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