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There's Plenty at Stake for Tyson Fury in Trilogy Bout

LAS VEGAS — Tyson Fury was confident. Or was he? With Fury you can never really know. It’s late September and Fury is in a rented Las Vegas home, shirtless, Zooming with a reporter. It’s weeks before Fury’s WBC heavyweight title fight against Deontay Wilder, the third installment between two of boxing’s top big men. He talks about his recent battle with COVID-19 (“second time I got it,” says Fury) and the public back and forth between his brother, Tommy Fury, and social media star turned boxer, Jake Paul (“I'd advise Tommy to take [Paul’s offer] if he was a bag carrier, a little corner man or something for Jake Paul”).