{"id":888274,"date":"2026-09-11T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888274\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:22:12","slug":"top-heavyweight-says-he-almost-kod-tyson-fury-in-sparring-and-threatens-to-post-proof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888274\/","title":{"rendered":"Top heavyweight says he almost KOd Tyson Fury in sparring and threatens to post proof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyson Fury has never been knocked out in a professional boxing contest, but he has been dropped on numerous occasions during his 39-fight career. One heavyweight rival is now claiming that he almost had \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019 out in sparring, and that he has the evidence to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>Fury has been floored eight times as a pro, by Neven Pajkic, Steve Cunningham, Deontay Wilder four times, Francis Ngannou and Oleksandr Usyk, with the ropes holding him up. He has never been stopped, however, with his two career defeats coming on the cards against Usyk.<\/p>\n<p>Both Wilder and Usyk have the argument as coming the closest to beating the Brit\u2019s impressive powers of recovery to force an early finish.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to Nigerian heavyweight Efe Ajagba, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/boxing\/news\/13508095\/efe-ajagba-stops-former-heavyweight-champion-charles-martin-in-fourth-round-in-statement-victory-in-las-vegas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">halted former IBF world champion Charles Martin inside four rounds<\/a> on his Zuffa Boxing debut back in February, he is the man to have hurt Fury the most during training camp ahead of <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/news\/tyson-fury-knocks-out-deontay-wilder-in-a-heavyweight-championship-fight-of-astonishing-ferocity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the \u2018The Gypsy King\u2019s trilogy showdown with Wilder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/58SjqfP-6cY?si=vLrpAdTrOIHHgmv_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FightHype<\/a>, Ajagba (21-1-1, 15 KOs) revealed that he has video evidence of him damaging the two-time heavyweight ruler and threatened to release it if the 38-year-old \u2018starts talking trash\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI almost knocked him out in sparring; everybody knows that, he knows,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have video proof. I have a video on my phone, but I don\u2019t want to post it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Tyson Fury talks trash, then I will post it, but he doesn\u2019t say anything, so I don\u2019t have to put it up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the fight happens and he starts talking trash, then that\u2019s when I will put the video out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTyson Fury said no videos, but I wanted to watch it back to learn, so that\u2019s why I have a video, not so I could post it on social media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ajagba then went on to state his desire to face Fury in an official contest, but, with the Anthony Joshua fight reportedly now close to being announced, \u2018The Silent Roller\u2019 is more likely to next compete for the Zuffa Boxing heavyweight world title, where either Kazakhstan\u2019s Ivan Dychko or Ukraine\u2019s Vladyslav Sirenko would be his likely opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyson Fury has never been knocked out in a professional boxing contest, but he has been dropped on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-888274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}