It’s impossible to know what to believe when Tyson Fury speaks before a fight. In the weeks leading up to his second fight with Deontay Wilder, Fury said he’d learned from their first fight and would change his strategy.
He would, he told anyone who would listen, come forward aggressively at Wilder and knock him out. Most who heard him scoffed and brushed it off as Fury messing with Wilder’s head.
Fury is the consummate boxer, and Wilder was the aggressor, hard-hitting KO artist. It made little sense for Fury to fight that way until he went out and did it and it worked.