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Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury had a heavyweight war of words

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Deontay Wilder defends his world title Saturday night live on Sky Sports, but remember when his celebrations were interrupted by Tyson Fury?

Deontay Wilder is coming your way live on Sky Sports this week, so we start the countdown by looking back to when he went face-to-face with Tyson Fury.

The heavyweight world champions had been social friends for a while before it all went off straight after the 'Bronze Bomber' had successfully defended his WBC title against Artur Szpilka in January.

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Fury was ringside at the Barclays Center in New York but within minutes of Wilder's cracking ninth-round knockout, the new WBA Super and WBO champion had leapt in to the ring to start a memorable war of words.

Wilder, who defends his belt against Chris Arreola on Sky Sports 3 on Saturday night, kept his cool and proved that he can banter as well as he can bang opponents out.

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To look back at the night when the heavyweight champions collided, play the video at the top of the article...