Beard Liberation Front
PRESS RELEASE 23rd February
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FIGHT REVIEW FINDS WILDER MORE CONCERNED TO PROTECT HIS BEARD THAN DEFEAT FURY
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The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, which campaigns against irrational prejudice against the hirsute, has said that it has carried out an urgent review of the Tyson Fury v Deontay Wilder fight held in Las Vegas earlier on Sunday.
Clean shaven Fury won the fight by a technical knockout in the seventh round.
Normally it would be expected that where a hirsute sportsman faces a clean shaven opponent they would have an advantage of beard power on their side.
However the BLF review suggests that Wilder’s beard was not fight ready. He had not pruned it to an appropriate fight length and ended up being more concerned to protect his beard than win the fight.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, Tyson Fury who often wears a beard was clean shaven for the fight clearly having decided that his focus had to be on winning rather than worrying about beard damage. It was not necessary for Wilder to shave however but he should have made sure his beard was match ready.
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