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Fury: You ain’t seen nothing yet, Wilder

BOXING

- BY CHRIS McKENNA Fury v Wilder is live and exclusive on BT Sport Box Office, December 1. For more info go to btsport.com/boxoffice

TYSON FURY reckons he has Deontay Wilder rattled.

But the former world heavyweigh­t champion admits all the mind games will count for little come fight night on Saturday, December 1.

Fury (above), 30, will face the WBC title holder at the Staples Center in Los Angeles but they kicked off a three-city tour in London in dramatic fashion.

The Manchester-born boxer said Wilder (right) would be an “easy touch” and the American hit back by bizarrely calling him a “wheelbarro­w” before they started trading foulmouthe­d insults yesterday.

Wilder lost his cool as he shoved Fury before they were separated by security while continuing their bust-up on live TV.

The British fighter believes his American rival cannot handle the heat because Wilder has never been in a fight of this magnitude while he dethroned Wladimir Klitschko. Fury said: “He’s mentally baffled, I’m living in his head rent-free at the moment. “I’m 100 per cent going to be cranking it up over the next two days. It’s going to be his welcome to big-time boxing. “I think he doesn’t know what to do because this has never happened to him. He’s never faced anybody like me, who talks and puts on a big show. “This is all new to him. He hasn’t had the big, big fights.” Wilder tried to get under Fury’s skin by claiming he needs to call up his uncle and former trainer Peter Fury, who was in the corner the night he beat Klitschko in November 2015. Wilder said: “I don’t know the reason for their split, they are still family. But he definitely needs Peter for this fight.”

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