Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury

Collision Course
Date28 November 2015
VenueEsprit Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany
Title(s) on the lineWBA (Unified), IBF, WBO, IBO, The Ring and TBRB heavyweight titles
Tale of the tape
Boxer Ukraine Wladimir Klitschko United Kingdom Tyson Fury
Nickname "Dr. Steelhammer" "The Gypsy King"
Hometown Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine Manchester, United Kingdom
Pre-fight record 64–3 (53 KO) 24–0 (18 KO)
Age 39 years, 8 months 27 years, 3 months
Height 6 ft 6 in (198 cm) 6 ft 9 in (206 cm)
Weight 245 lb (111 kg) 247 lb (112 kg)
Style Orthodox Orthodox
Recognition WBA (Super), IBF, WBO, IBO, The Ring and TBRB
Heavyweight Champion
The Ring
No. 6 ranked pound-for-pound fighter
WBO
No. 1 Ranked Heavyweight
WBA/TBRB
No. 2 Ranked Heavyweight
IBF/The Ring
No. 3 Ranked Heavyweight
Result
Fury wins via 12-round unanimous decision (115–112, 116–111, 115–112)

Wladimir Klitschko vs. Tyson Fury, billed as Kollisionskurs (German for Collision Course), was a professional boxing match contested between WBA (Unified), IBF, WBO, IBO, and The Ring heavyweight champion, Wladimir Klitschko, and Tyson Fury. The fight took place on 28 November 2015 at the Esprit Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany. Fury was declared the winner by unanimous decision.[1] This ended Klitschko's reign of nearly 10 years, the second longest in heavyweight history.[2] Klitschko was entitled to a rematch per the fight contract.[3][4] Despite this, Fury was stripped of the IBF heavyweight title for agreeing to the rematch instead of facing the IBF mandatory challenger, Vyacheslav Glazkov.

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  3. ^ Dirs, Ben (1 January 1970). "Tyson Fury and Wladimir Klitschko to meet again in a 2016 rematch - BBC Sport". Bbc.com. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
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