Sean Zittel<\/a>, Rahman highlighted the decline of a fellow two-time heavyweight world champion, believing that Tyson Fury\u2019s iconic trilogy with Deontay Wilder had a severe impact on the careers of both combatants.<\/p>\n\u201cAbsolutely, [Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury ruined each other]. The amount of shots that they both gave and received was so damaging to their career. I think that they beat their careers out of each other, in my opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think that either one of them would be the same and I think, had they never fought each other, but of them would still be reigning, and at a much higher level, right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fury and Wilder met on three occasions between 2018 and 2021, with the first bout ending in a draw while Fury claimed two stoppage wins in the fights that followed, with a total of nine knockdowns dished out between the duo.<\/p>\n
Wilder has suffered two further defeats to Joseph Parker and Zhilei Zhang since the trilogy, but did claim a victory over Derek Chisora in April, while Fury lost twice to Oleksandr Usyk, perhaps adding credence to Rahman\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n
Fury will return to action in less than two weeks as he fights for the second time this year in an unconventional low-profile scrap with Mariusz Wach at the Max Muaythai Stadium in Pattaya, Thailand<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boxing fans are always keen for the heavyweight elite to fight one another, but in the eyes of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-689083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}