LAS VEGAS - As the evening began, Deontay Wilder looked as if he stepped out of a comic book. The shoulders, the arms, the fearsome arch of his torso -- it all suggested a character on loan from the Marvel universe.
Turned out, he was even more than that. He was flesh and blood and a vastly improved fighter, much of it owing to his new trainer, Malik Scott. He began by jabbing to Tyson Fury's fleshy body. He remained violent in the clinches. And he knocked down the champion twice in the fourth.
As a rule, nobody gets up after Wilder knocks him down.