Tyson Fury claims he is soaking his hands in petrol every day ahead of his rematch with Deontay Wilder. The Gypsy King is aiming to set the record straight by beating Wilder in their highly-anticipated second showdown that is scheduled to take place in Las Vegas at the end of this month. Fury has overhauled his coaching team for the rematch and revealed his unusual method to toughen up his hands as he searches for knockout against Wilder. ‘I was speaking to an old legendary bare-knuckle fighter from the travelling community, he’s called Big Joe Joyce,’ Fury told Gareth A Davies.
‘He told me about dipping his hands in petrol, to toughen them up. ‘So for this fight I’ll be dipping my hands in petrol for five minutes a day during the last three or four weeks of the training camp to really toughen them up.
‘It worked for him, so I’m going to give it a try.’ Fury has vowed to knock Wilder out after their controversial first fight in December 2018. The British heavyweight is convinced he won’t get a judges’ decision in America.
Fury explained: ‘They had to rob a man who had been out of the ring for three years and they still couldn’t beat him. ‘I’m not coming here for a points decision, I’ve had too many of them – nine of them – I’m coming here for a knockout, I’ve had 21 of them and from the heart that’s what I’m looking to do. ‘This is why I employed Sugar Hill. If I didn’t want a knockout, I wouldn’t have hired a Kronk [the famous Detroit gym] trainer. ‘If I didn’t want a knockout, I’d have kept Ben Davison and working on that herky-jerky style.’
