Referee Kenny Bayless reveals he was CLOSE to stopping Tyson Fury’s fight against Deontay Wilder

Referee Kenny Bayless reveals he was VERY CLOSE to stopping Tyson Fury’s fight against Deontay Wilder… before the towel was thrown in the seventh round

  • Tyson Fury beat Deontay Wilder when the American’s corner threw the towel
  • Man in the middle Kenny Bayless said he warned Wilder to protect himself
  • Experienced referee Bayless thinks it was a good decision to stop the fight 
  • Fury remains unbeaten and could face Wilder again or fight Anthony Joshua 

Referee Kenny Bayless says he was quite close to stopping Deontay Wilder‘s fight against Tyson Fury due to the battering the American was receiving. 

Wilder was knocked down in the third and fifth rounds and was being dominated by his British opponent on Saturday night. 

The towel was thrown in from Wilder’s corner to concede the fight in the seventh round and Bayless has now revealed he was close to stopping it himself before it reached that point. 

The referee says he was quite close to stopping the fight before the towel was thrown in 

Kenny Bayless warned Wilder in-between rounds that he needed to defend himself in the ring

Kenny Bayless warned Wilder in-between rounds that he needed to defend himself in the ring

‘It was a good stoppage in my opinion because in the minute’s rest between rounds before the stoppage I went over to Deontay,’ Bayless told SiriusXM Fight Nation

‘I looked him in the face and I gave him the line that us referees give the fighters to let them know, ‘Hey, you’ve gotta show me something.”

The moment Bayless spots the towel and calls off the fight, while Wilder receives a pounding

The moment Bayless spots the towel and calls off the fight, while Wilder receives a pounding

‘They know that if you go back out there and you don’t show me something, then I might have to do my job and stop it.

‘Deontay is a warrior, when I saw the towel come in out of the corner of my eyes and stopped it, Deontay’s first response was, “Why did I stop it?”

‘Then I let him know it was his corner that stopped it, but I was very close to stopping it.’ 



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