Two days after Tyson Fury stopped Deontay Wilder in the seventh round to win the WBC heavweight title, WFAN's Boomer Esiason used a Mets analogy to describe the two fighters.
Fury "basically schooled Deontay Wilder. He showed him how to box," Esiason said on Monday's "Boomer and Gio" show.
"We always talk about, are you a thrower or are you a pitcher? Like, I always think of Jacob deGrom as a pitcher, like a thinking man's pitcher. ... He knows where to locate the ball and where to throw it and what speed to throw it at, and that's one of the reasons he's won back-to-back Cy Young Awards. Whereas, (Noah) Syndergaard goes out there and tries to throw it a hundred miles an hour and tries to throw it through your bat.
"That's the way I would describe Fury and Wilder II here. Fury came out, he had a game plan, and he executed it perfectly, and Deontay just got smashed."
Esiason's co-host Gregg Giannotti, who attended the fight in Las Vegas, said Fury proved he was smarter than his critics.
"I kept saying he's either going to be a genius or an idiot because he changed everything from the first fight, where he was really good, Tyson Fury, and a lot of people thought, even though he got knocked down twice in the first fight and we know how the 12th round went, that he should come back and try to do that again because he was that good," Giannotti said. "And he completely changed everything up. I mean, he gained 20 pounds, and he said he was going to go in there and he was going to try to knock out Deontay Wilder and he was going to take the fight to him. And boxing people, boxing historians, boxing experts, nobody seemed to think that, that was a good idea, and it was the best idea."
Gio said Wilder didn't look like himself after the third-round knockdown that resulted in blood oozing out of the defending champ's left ear.
"Once he took that shot to the ear and he's bleeding out of the ear, he lost his legs," Giannotti said. "He could not stand up. A guy -- we always talk about the right hand -- he generates his power from his lower body. He couldn't do it."
To listen to the open from Monday's "Boomer and Gio" show, click on the audio player above.
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