Deontay Wilder has sent out a chilling message to Tyson Fury ahead of their hotly anticipated WBC Heavyweight Championship match on 1st December.
The 33-year-old American has had a heated rivalry with the 30-year-old Brit over the past couple of months, with neither boxer holding back on the trash-talk.
Now, the reigning WBC Heavyweight Champion has made it clear that he means business when the two eventually meet, saying that he has "transformed into a killer."
"Tyson Fury doesn't know what he's gotten himself into," he said (via the Metro).
"He better be hugging, and wrestling, and kissing them (bears) as well too because he's definitely going to need a teddy bear in the hospital, for sure.
"This is no game for me, I don't play this. This is not a game. I always told my baby, 'Daddy's coming home.' When you fight the Bronze Bomber, these guys know what they're getting themselves into.
"They can hear the stories, they can hear the tales all they want. But when you get in the ring and feel it, that's when -- and only when -- you know what you've been hearing, what you've been seeing, is real."
The Alabama-born boxer also had some strong choice of words for Anthony Joshua, specifically branding him a "coward."
"I don't have a message to Anthony Joshua," he explained. "It's all about Tyson Fury, and I don't want anyone to ask me about Anthony Joshua at all. He was a coward and that's that."
Fury has been preparing hard for the match and has spoken candidly about the issues he has had with mental health, as well as hilariously revealing that he had been banned from Wikipedia after trolling Wladimir Klitschko.
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