Former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury liked what he saw on Saturday night.
Fury, who has long held an interest in mixed martial arts, heaped praise on the men involved in last weekend’s UFC 307 main event in Salt Lake City, Utah after Brazil’s Alex Pereira emerged victorious from a four-round war with top contender Khalil Rountree — leaving his opponent with a face very much wearing the damage of spending 15+ minutes in the cage with one of the best strikers in the business.
And Fury, who has previously fought the ex-UFC heavyweight champion Francis Ngannou in the boxing ring, was suitably impressed by the heart and grit displayed by both men, and in particular Rountree who sustained several cuts to his face before his body finally couldn’t take anymore in the fourth.
Tyson Fury reacts to Khalil Rountree’s face following the Alex Pereira KO:
“We don’t play in the fight game. Warriors of the modern day.”
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“We don’t play in the fight game,” Fury wrote on social media, alongside a picture of Rountree’s face post-fight. “Warriors of the modern day!”
Fury is, of course, no stranger to having cuts opened up during a fight after he was forced to overcome a bad gash above his eyebrow during his September 2019 fight over Otto Wallin, which he would ultimately win by unanimous decision.
He also sustained a bad cut earlier this year which delayed his title unification fight with Oleksandr Usyk, which delayed the bout in which Usyk would hand the Briton his first-ever professional defeat.
