From Sub-Saharan Africa, to the Balkans, to the Middle East, honorary consuls have been accused of aiding terrorist groups and threatening the rule of law. If they're removing any product, including cocaine, weapons, precursors for chemical weapons, on private jets, those jets cannot be searched. We knew that this was a vulnerability. The honorary consul system has existed for centuries. It was started to give smaller countries unable to support foreign embassies the chance to have representation around the world. It has since expanded into a mainstay of international diplomacy. Unlike career ambassadors, volunteer consuls work from their home countries to promote the interests of the foreign governments that appoint them. It's a sort of additional honor for business leaders and the like, sort of a perk without having to do real diplomatic work. The ideal honorary consul candidate, if it's being done right, is somebody who does have an ancestral tie to country acts, who has enough financial resources, and who has the time and the interest, as well as the contacts, to get good press for country acts. Honorary consuls receive little to no pay, but gain entry into the lofty world of diplomacy. The position comes with some of the same perks and legal protections provided to career diplomats. Their correspondence can't be seized. Their consular bags, no matter the size, are protected from searches. In shadow diplomats, of first of its kind investigation, pro-publica and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, in partnership with 160 reporters in 46 countries, have identified hundreds of current and former honorary consuls who've been publicly accused of wrongdoing or embroiled in controversy. That includes consuls who've been accused or convicted of fraud, bribery, corruption or money laundering, drugs or weapons offenses, or violent crimes. Some were tied to environmental abuses. Thirty honorary consuls have been sanctioned by the U.S. and other governments. Nine current or former consuls have been linked by law enforcement or governments to terrorist groups. Most of those consuls were tied to Hezbollah, a Lebanese political party and militant group. Hezbollah attacked and killed 241 U.S. service members in Beirut in 1983. The United States designated Hezbollah a terror organization in 1997. Jack Kelly, a retired drug enforcement agent, spent a decade investigating Hezbollah's financial worldwide network. What we noticed was that these high-level operatives and members of the Lebanese diaspora that were significant members of Hezbollah's growing drug cartel also happen to be honorary consuls to West African nations. So we knew right off, of course, that implies a limited diplomatic community. At the time, Kelly was helping lead a federal operation called Project Cassandra. Its mission was to dismantle Hezbollah's sprawling criminal empire. We were working with a lot of people in the intelligence community and then our intelligence and investigative counterparts around the world all realized, oh, well, this is a six-continent, concerted effort going against one thing, this Hezbollah drug cartel. One honorary consul was a Lebanese businessman named Mohamed Bazi. In 2008, Bazi became a person of interest for Kelly and other agents. They believed he was a top Hezbollah financier, closely affiliated with the Iranian regime and laundering illicit money through his companies in Lebanon and Africa. They soon discovered Bazi was an honorary consul appointed by the Gambian government in Lebanon in 2005. One of the things we learned is that he's very close to President Jama in Gambia. We're also receiving information of his direct ties to Iran. And that could be money laundering that we could suspect that Mohamed Bazi is involved in. Bazi was never criminally prosecuted. In 2018, the U.S. sanctioned him, designating him a Hezbollah financier, while noting his close association with former Gambian president Yaya Jama, who was accused by a Gambian government panel of kidnappings, rape, murder, and torture. It's got to be the height of irony to have someone like Mohamed Bazi be honored anywhere in any form, let alone as honorary consul. Obviously, Mr. Bazi was very instrumental in helping the president of the Gambia pillage his country. Bazi sued the U.S. government in 2019, saying that it failed to provide evidence that he financed Hezbollah. The lawsuit was settled, and Bazi remains under sanction. He's no longer an honorary consul. An attorney for Bazi declined to comment. In court records, Bazi said the government exaggerated transactions and events that had occurred years earlier and failed to provide evidence that he financed Hezbollah. Bazi also said he ended his relationship with Jama in 2016 after a series of threats. Jama has denied wrongdoing. As Kelly and Project Cassandra pushed forward, New Jersey attorney Gary Osson was busy analyzing the organization's deadly campaign against U.S. service members in Iraq. The search turned up references to honorary consuls linked to Hezbollah's finance networks. In 2019, Osson filed a lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of Americans, including members of the military, who were killed or wounded in Iraq. The complaint alleges that Lebanese banks provided extensive and sustained financial support to the terrorist group as it supported attacks in Iraq by roadside bombs and other weapons that the lawsuit links to Iran and Hezbollah. Quds Force, along with Hisbollah instructors, trained approximately 20 to 60 Iraqis at a time, sending them back to Iraq, organized into these special groups. During the Iraq War, they were responsible for the deaths of over 600 U.S. service men and women in IED attacks using what is called EFPs. This unit of Hezbollah that we were going after, they were responsible for showing the Shia paramilitaries in Iraq how to use these IEDs against American forces. EFPs or explosively formed penetrators are a weapons system really perfected by Hezbollah in their operations against Israel and Israeli armor in southern Lebanon in the 1990s. In 2004, when Iran decided to escalate its attacks on coalition forces in Iraq, they tasked Hezbollah with introducing EFPs and to help develop the capabilities of the Iraqi proxy groups to begin to attack U.S. armor. Army Sergeant Robert Bartlett was serving in Iraq in 2005 when his vehicle was hit by an EFP. So we'd already cleared two sectors that day and we're headed through the barriers on the off-ramp and the EFP was on the backside of the barrier. And so when my vehicle pulled forward, one vehicle had already gone through, they waited until my vehicle got through and they set it off. Now the bomb when it came through came through right through next to my head, next to my door, next to the roof and it basically cut me in half and left corner of my temple down through my jaw, took my gunner's legs off and then took the top of my truck commander's head off and then went out through the other side of the vehicle. When I kind of get my wits about me, I turn to my right and I saw my truck commander was instantly killed and I began to die. With every breath I was taking, I was losing a breath. I had internal bleeding and collapse along as well. During Bartlett's rescue and evacuation, his heart stopped twice before being resuscitated. He was eventually flown to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland where his heart stopped a third time. I ended up drowning on my own stomach acid. So yeah, that was scary. That part was probably the scariest part. Bartlett has since had 12 surgeries and has managed to regain some function in his face and body. Now I have a titanium jaw from here to here. I lost my lower lip so they had to build me a lip here, taking skin grass from my arms. I had internal bleeding and collapsed lungs so I have a zipper cut here for exploratory. They had to take bone out of both hips and combine it with cadaver bone and things like that just to rebuild here so they could actually put implants in so I'd had teeth again. So I spent four and a half, four years of surgeries really and then the last six months was just really recovery and getting out of the military. Robert is an extraordinary person who has endured more suffering and hardship than I think any other human being can imagine.  Come on, Lulu. Lulu, no, no. Bartlett was all in when Osin contacted him about filing a suit against banks and financial institutions with alleged ties to his bulla. I was just happy to do it. I mean, my buddy was killed. He's got two daughters and they grew up without a dad. We didn't attack our aunts so why were they involved in attacking us? That's kind of how I, that's exactly how I see it. So I just want to, any money we can take away from their actions on killing the more Americans in the future or anybody else in the future whether they deem enemies, that's okay with me. The lawsuit is still ongoing in federal court. While investigating the banks, Osin found that Muhammad Bazi, the sanctioned former honorary consul for Gambia, held an account at two of the banks. The banks have denied wrongdoing, saying in court documents that they categorically abhorred terrorism and all unjustified acts of violence. The banks also said the complaint did not identify transactions for anyone connected to Hezbollah. Hezbollah's use of honorary consuls remains a threat to global safety, say Osin, Kelly and other experts. In March, the Treasury Department sanctioned a prominent businessman and honorary consul in Guinea. He's accused of funneling money to Hezbollah alongside another businessman, also sanctioned, who allegedly used his honorary consul status to move in and out of the country with little scrutiny. Both men have denied wrongdoing. Setting aside all the terrible things that Hezbollah did in Iraq and the killing and maiming of American soldiers, you know, that's only one cost. The trail of misery that this organization and its facilitators create is really incalculable. After going decades without using them, experts say the Russian government now uses honorary consuls as part of a strategy to move public opinion in the Kremlin's favor and weaken the influence of pro-Western governments, particularly in countries like Montenegro. In 2015, Russia named its first honorary consul to Montenegro, a tiny Balkan nation on the Adriatic coast. The consul, Borod Zhukic, was a Montenegren with Russian connections. He set up a consulate office in a popular district in Budva, a coastal city teaming with Russian tourists and investors. At the time, Montenegro was seeking NATO membership, making the country a high-stakes battleground between Russia and the West. In 2016, Montenegren authorities disrupted an election day coup attempt by Russian military intelligence operatives and others who had plotted to overthrow the government and kill its pro-Western prime minister. We have gathered here today to mark a historic occasion. Montenegro joined NATO the following year. Welcome to the Alliance Montenegro. Thank you. Months later, according to records obtained by pro-publica and ICIJ, as well as reporting by local media, Borod Zhukic, the honorary consul, signed founding documents to create a Kremlin-backed right-wing political party led by Marco Milicic, a well-known anti-NATO populist leader. Borod supports this political party, the true Montenegro, a small party led by a pro-Russian local politician. And their headquarters are in his house in Goritsa neighborhood in Podgoritsa. And you can see him from there taking place in all these church events. He's with the Russian Patriarch. He's meeting with the highest-ranking members of the Kremlin elites. Borod Zhukic served as honorary consul for about four years. In 2018, the Montenegro government stripped him of the title. It was reportedly done in response to the poisoning of a former Russian military intelligence officer who had become a British spy, and it was unrelated to Zhukic. Shortly after, Zhukic appeared at a press conference to endorse the true Montenegro party and defended his own involvement in politics. He told reporters that if he had several million euros or dollars, he would legally offer them to Mr. Milicic. That's when Borod became interesting for me because I saw he was very present there with all these kinds of different organizations that remind so much of, you know, old keepers and proud boys in the US. Since his dismissal, Zhukic has been active on social media, posting pro-Kremlin content, including a photo of himself with Alexander Zoltostanov, the leader of a pro-Kremlin motorcycle gang called the Nightwolves. The US Treasury Department previously sanctions Zoltostanov for leading an organization that recruited fighters and committed crimes during the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea. He could not be reached for comment.  Zhukic was part of a faithful network of honorary consuls embedded by the Russian government around the world. Putin, who is obviously a master of soft power, has reinstated the honorary consuls to Russia. And Russia now has a lot of honorary consuls. And he has done that because he understands that honorary consuls, if they are doing what they're supposed to be doing, can be very useful in trying to present Russia in a more favorable light to other countries. Zhukic did not respond to requests for comment, but has publicly denied acting improperly as consul. Four years later, the true Montenegro party remains active in politics, as do pro-Russian interests. In September, authorities expelled six Russian diplomats who were suspected of espionage. Filipovic blames Zhukic, among others, for the political unrest in a country that has struggled to establish an identity since becoming a sovereign nation in 2006. He meddled directly into the country's politics. He was supporting all these extremist radicalized groups of people. He went far beyond what an honorary consul should do. In the weeks since the Shadow Diplomats investigation, governments around the world have called for reform. Experts in international diplomacy and national security say the world's governments need to do far more. That includes examining honorary consul nominees before they're approved and tracking their activities once they become consuls. The countries that are the worst defenders, they will never agree to real reform of the system because it's not in their interest. But one has to ask, why has this system endured? Why do we need it going forward? And I'm not sure there's a good answer for why we need it going forward.


Right guys welcome back to another video welcome back to another rugby player reacts video today We're reacting to boxing and we're reacting to one of the greatest trilogies of all time. It's not the only trilogy But it will say it's the only trilogy I've witnessed as a boxing fan in real time so Deontay Wilder versus Tyson actually no, let's put that around the other way Tyson Fury versus Deontay Wilder the trilogy I Love both fighters. I really do I Absolutely adored this trilogy. I was Watching every single press conference every single, you know promo I was watching every single interview I Wanted to see Tyson fury be successful in the first fight Well, he came back from the dead, didn't he? It was a draw If he wasn't knocked down in the 12th, I believe he most likely would have won that fight a lot of people thought he did win That fight he certainly won it with the fans Deontay Wilder literally knocked him out in the 12th round thought it was over 12th round 12th round knockout It's not the only time he went down that fight But he did go down in the 12th round and for whatever reason, you know The gob was on his side and he rose from the dead came back even stronger during the remainder of the 12th round Okay, then we come to the second fight. It's a draw, right? It's a draw the second fight I Vividly remember watching this fight. I was in Thailand training at Tiger Moitai and I'll tell you what the only like let's get okay So I'd go to Tiger Moitai at 8 o'clock in the morning to our training till 10 You know have a protein shake have a bit of a meal bit of a bit of a you know Relax go in the pool. You know every single place has got a pool Hot weather beautiful Absolutely amazing time and then Three o'clock I come around and I go for my second session three to five and Then I'd come back to the hotel and I would watch fights. I would watch fights I would watch fight after fight after fight after fight and I was training Moitai, but I'd watch a lot of boxing lo and behold Fury Wilder 2 was on Wildstyle's in Thailand and I thought you know what? I'm not gonna watch this by myself. I'm gonna go to Hooters That's exactly what I did. I went to Hooters and Patong Beach Hooters as in the restaurant and I started drinking at 11 o'clock in the morning and watched the fight with a bunch of other counts and Look Tyson Fury knocked him out in the seventh round. I Knew that I knew fury was gonna come in strong I knew I knew it and you know why I knew that I I knew it because Tyson Fury Realized in that 12th round of the first fight after being knocked down that he if he does come forward Deontay Wilder actually has no response. He if if Tyson Fury Comes forward and uses his size and weight and punching power You know Deontay Wilder simply has no response and that's exactly what happened. So look, there's many excuses from Wilder's side as to why he was Gassed early on in that fight, but it was a seventh round knockout And I remember being in Hooters. Sorry excuse me I remember being in Hooters and I remember being the loudest motherfucker in the room and I was just Mate Look, I was a Tyson Fury fan before but that fight just really just cemented it Right the fact that he came back from being 400 pounds I mean he's six foot nine but 400 pounds is a lot of weight and he lost, you know over 100 pounds He came back. He had a couple of warm-up fights then fought fought the bronze bomber Deontay Wilder went went to a draw So he is still undefeated and then goes in there and absolutely steamrolls the count seventh round knockout Unbelievable. I remember I remember where I was and I remember the feeling I had I was pissed as And drunk but yeah, certainly celebrating the the victory I was the loudest guy in the room and I jumped on my scooter and went back to my hotel and Went and trained it Tiger Moitai the next day either way the third fight The third fight the third type of something else that went a lot longer than the second but once again Tyson Fury With the sheer size he's six foot nine. He's an absolute. He's a behemoth. You know Shaquille O'Neal is Seven foot one Tyson Fury six foot nine You know only a few pounds less. Can you imagine Shaquille O'Neal in his prime? Actually having decent boxing skills No one could beat him and that's the case with Tyson Fury either way the third fight went to the 11th round Deontay Wilder was knocked out and Tyson Fury maintains his undefeated record and Wins the trilogy to to nothing That trilogy was something I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever forget Especially that second fight Tyson Fury is one of my favorite human beings on the planet Not just fighters my fate one of my favorite human beings every single time he opens his mouth every single thing he says on the mic is It's it's it's useful. It's I'm not gonna it's it's You know look he's calling out. He's calling out.  He's calling out Joshua at the moment and In those times, you know, he might go on the On he might he might become you know aggressive you could say but normally The normal Tyson Fury the Tyson Fury we know is Positive he's uplifting.  He was he was traveling down the highway at 180 kilometers an hour About to crash his car into a concrete wall And for whatever reason he didn't and now he's come back to Maintain his WBC heavyweight title belt And come out on top in this trilogy Look, I can't say enough good things about Tyson Fury and to be honest I can't say enough good things about Deontay Walder, you know early on in the piece after the first and well, definitely after the second fight when he had those excuses about Wearing his 40 pound fucking costume to the ring and having his legs taken out from under him Look, I it took him about a month to address the public. He did address the public and he came back strong gave a valiant effort The thing about Deontay Walder is that look he's six foot seven for God's sake You've got Joseph Parker who's six foot four. You've got Usik who's six foot three.  There is no guy that there's there's no David two is anymore There's no Mike Tyson's anymore. You know if you're not six foot four or above You know it's it's like a hybrid these guys are so tall and at that height You wouldn't expect them to have the skills in the in the movement that they do But the guy like Tyson Fury, you know he combines height weight and skill. He's a gypsy He rose from the dead That is my introduction Today I React as a rugby player, but as a boxing fan also to the Tyson Fury Tyson Fury Deontay Walder Legendary boxing trilogy and my friends I've been looking forward to this video all night And we're gonna watch it together What a time to be alive what a trilogy Honestly, I don't I don't even want to start the video. I want to I want to keep talking about it I want to keep talking about what Tyson Fury means to me as a person You know what this trilogy actually meant to me But that second fight is just something I'll never forget. I was the loudest guy in the room Well, actually it was outside, but I was the loudest guy and when Tyson Fury knocked him out in the seventh round You know and and and the towel was thrown in. Oh my god. What a moment. What a moment But I will say Deontay Walder, you know, he's come from he You know, he it's not as if he was It's not as if he took up boxing at five ten years old he literally took up boxing at like was it 20 something like that and he does it for his family and he's made Millions and millions and millions of dollars so he set up his family for life, you know, he's done He's done what he set out to achieve I just want to see who he fights next either way guys. Let's get into the video Ha a moment. I've been waiting for all night Today's video is brought to you by Squarespace And I know all about trying to include sponsors in Your videos and to be honest With the results that I got from my sponsorship Nah, not a chance. Either way Let's have a look at this. Look, I'm a big boxing fan. What are we gonna say? Oh, man I've been looking forward to this video all night. Honestly guys.  Oh my god Let's get into it.  It's another tall unbeaten heavyweight Kelvin price Bro, these are the times man. Do you want a water with a shaved head? There's something else Do you want a water with a shaved head? It's just something else That's the thing. He said 40 fights. He's had a lot of fights And he's knocked out pretty much every single person except for Yeah, yeah The gypsy king Well, this was after Klitschko in almost insurmountable obstacle in front of you becoming the heavyweight champion of the world All of a sudden you did it Then the depression kicks in. Yes, that's right Heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury has gotten himself in some deep water Our friend Mr. Fury has failed the drugs test due to the being cocaine in his system What were the drugs of choice once you won the title? Cocaine was the usual. Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has been making headlines left and right since winning the belt Seriously to come back from where he was You know literally wanting to drive his car into a wall the cocaine addict and alcohol addict 400 pounds overweight to come back And beat the bronze bomber to Rolling Stone about his personal struggles with drugs and depression You don't like it change the station. You don't like it. Don't take photos. Honestly, that that's That's a young Tyson fury's voice You know what I mean? Because his voice is just his voice is morphed into his dad's voice And I suppose that's genetics for you. Don't like it. Don't print in your newspaper. Do I care? Not really He doesn't look well. You look at stuff that he does.  Now that is a Batman. I don't know how he fatten that car. To be honest It's an absolute disgrace to call me an athlete cocaine and alcohol It's like Cocaine and alcohol Uh Drug and alcohol. Thanks. I remember this. I do remember this. Yeah fury vs. Klitschko 2. Now that fight never happened That fight never happened Champion of the world At the time I wasn't training I've not been in the gym for months. I've not been training. I've been going through depression I just don't like saying this for those that don't know the thing is the belts look Look, I don't know who's shooting this video But the thing is he's always said the belt means nothing the belt means absolutely nothing to me And that's that's a dangerous human being in the boxing ring But having reached the highest of highs When the belt means absolutely nothing. I mean what what does mean Something to him and it's his family. It's his it's his wife paris. It's his sons who uh, you know Legends in their own right, but yeah, let's continue some fury has pulled out of the rematch with Vladimir Klitschko at the end Because of mental health issues. I was sitting here 400 pounds I drug addict and alcoholic I didn't care about nothing. I just wanted to die so bad. I give up on life And just as I was heading towards that bridge at 19 this Ferrari hit a crush like a coke can by the way for the I heard a voice I was sitting here 400 pounds I drug addict and alcoholic I didn't care about nothing. I just wanted to die so bad. I give up on life And just as it was getting to us How can you feel like that after being the heavyweight champion of the world, you know millions in the bank Damn bro, you've got to love who you see in the mirror. You know what I mean? You have you have to accept at the very least if not love you have to accept Who is staring back at you in the mirror and it seems as if he just couldn't do it bridge at 19 This Ferrari hit a crush like a coke can by the way for the better I heard a voice He did hear a voice Don't do this Tyson think about your kids Think about your family and your little boys and girls growing up with no father. That's big time And everyone saying your dad was a weak man. Oh He left his he took the easy. He is not a weak man And I'll tell you what that's given me goosebumps all over my entire body because I've heard that interview before And that because he couldn't do anything about it. And for the first time in years I knew I was going to make a comeback you know you gotta crack on and realize that You didn't see yourself. Look at him bro. This is before the first fight 400 motherfucking pounds Literally, I mean he looks fat. He looks fat, but he's six foot nine. So he you know, he he does distribute the weight well, but Man, I remember these times man 2017 leading up to that first fight.   I just want to say I'm coming back Better than I ever was before after that. He loses it all blows up to 400 pounds. He looks like RIP headphone users, but I couldn't help I couldn't help to do that I could not help but do that and I see this video of dionte wilder Saying yep, Tyson fury. He's finally done that because he could never come back. He gave me that much more motivation to return Just so I can beat dionte wilder And he was boxing very well. Look at this.  And he has built himself back up. He's gotten himself back in the ring. He's tried to clean up his life Yeah Wbc champion the biggest puncher in every history After the layoff, I've had two and a half years out the ring. I was never defeated inside a boxing ring And I wanted to fight the best when I came back Ben Davidson Ben Davidson Sadly they did part ways, but I tell you what ben davison was such a An integral part of bringing this guy back from the brink Hmm The problem is they're both unbeaten. They're both an unbelievable self. Who's that or tease the box of abilities never been in question I've never lost anything from the box of ability. Me movement. Me. Thanks. Me. Iq nothing All I did was pile our weight on. I will say this about wilder. The right hand is something special I didn't come to be embarrassed Are they still skinny? But I guess what I'm asking is that being out in the game for two and a half years. I mean Look at frank warren. Look at frank warren, mate. He's still going strong In fact, I saw frank warren just after the last fight between uh, joseph parker and joe joe's Uh, clearly he's um representing joe joe's and joe joe's got the win, but frank warren, mate.  You know what? You know what? No Hold it right there Right Can you see this? Now we're talking now. We're talking. I literally bought two tops Two t-shirts off of the gypsy king, uh website about three four months ago I've worn one I've kept one in pristine condition with the tag on with the hope of one day Having the great tyson fury sign it for me And i'll frame it either way and still baby and still gypsy king undefeated I think this is I I yeah look at the end of the day. Um, I've worn this top Um In a lot of videos, but none more fitting than this Let's continue.  The second was something else but the third well I assume we're gonna see it. I love Tyson fury. I love the man. I really do And if you haven't gone through your own mental health struggles, then I don't think you can relate Depression wasn't a word in my vocabulary four or five years ago, but I certainly know what it is And to come back from that man some people don't Know See at that point deonta wilder had the belt fury had vacated the belts most of them are gone to anthony joshua This is for the wbc heavyweight title belt You know This man, I'll tell you what oh, mate any of those right hands could knock out any Normal human You never feel Bro, I gotta stop this man.  All right Tyson fury To think that he was literally knocked out He was knocked out and you see some controversy around the the standing 10 count that the eight count 10 count whatever you want to call it But he got up But he was asleep for four seconds Of those 10 he was asleep Then he woke up and was risen from the dead and was given a second chance and came back strong and realized that If you walk deonta wilder down As a six foot nine 270 pound man, you might have some success I Pretty sure fury went down in the fourth and this might be it. This might be it. Yeah. No. No. No. This is the ninth round Sorry, my bad. My bad.  This is it. This is where he pumped back from the dead. I honestly don't want to watch it It was the right hand then it was a left hook Bang bang Bang It was all over Deonta wilder literally thought it was all over Haven't been a doubt in your mind, but you said no, I'm not gonna get up now Because if I open my eyes I don't know what can get up. Yeah, exactly But it took forth it took the fourth took four seconds for him to open his eyes. He opened his eyes.  What a fight Oh man, I can't I can't help but get goosebumps man. This is insane. This is bringing back big memories real big memories He must be Thanking his lucky stars this morning and he's still got a green and gold belt because that belt belongs to me Tyson fury aka the gypsy king The biggest heavyweight fight in years was set. He said that he figured out something Interestingly enough after he got hit with that big blow in the 12th round of the first fight And he got got up at that point and and took the attack to wilder in that 12th round That's what he realized he realized a lot Honestly, it might be a minute and 30 seconds of a 12-round fight a 36-minute fight, but he realized a fuckload After being knocked down coming back strong to be like, you know what I have to knock that I've literally come back from the dead Well, I may as well throw everything at this guy and deonte wilder didn't have a didn't have an answer It wasn't the 12th round.  This is just This is something else This was something else and I'll tell you what this ring walk was something else too and the excuses that stem from it were Look, honestly, I'm going to stop it here. I tend to actually I tend to believe What deonte wilder said about that suit Being 40 pounds And taking the legs out of him because the ring walk was like three three four five minutes long and I'm pretty sure he said he he tried the mask on the day before and it did feel heavy But he's like no, this should be fine. But look, I tend to I honestly tend to agree with what he said So, you know, for anyone out there that's like hating on deonte wilder for the fact that He made that excuse. I I Look, it's it's an excuse Um, I reckon it's a pretty bad oversight for him Uh, you know, he wanted to look good for the camera, but unfortunately it ended in a seventh round Fucking bloody knockout Um, and I was in thailand to watch it So he was probably thinking he could have a look at his face right have a look at his face right here right now This is crucial. This is absolutely crucial.  It's interesting. It's interesting regardless Six nine against six seven.   I'm coming in at 270. It's going to be simple balance fundamentals one two I'm going to lean on him and take him out. He shifted his strategy having seen a potential weakness in wilder's defense during their first meeting Yes, and I mean hey look, I'm going to stop it right there. Hey look I've got to give credit. You know Deontay Wilder did land some pretty heavy shots Uh and for whatever reason, you know Tyson fury wasn't knocked out because I mean all it takes is one And I think Tyson fury's ability at six foot nine to to roll with punches So to speak to do a bit of rope or dope even in the middle of the the ring Um certainly served him well Bro if he hadn't abducted Can you imagine how loud I was getting at hooters Tom beat. I don't know what you're talking about knocking somebody in the second round You ain't never knocked nobody in the second round. You got pillows for fear. You never The pillow fists the pillow fists. Yeah, I remember that one.  That's all I want to see I want to see these guys Succeed, you know, I'm not a hater by any means of any of these guys Any of their top 10, uh heavyweight fighters at the moment and I could probably name them Um, I'm not a hater whatsoever. I just want to see fights. I want to see competitive fights between these guys And that's what we saw here and this is only the second. We're only halfway through the video, but I'm enjoying it I'm enjoying it Immensely, and I hope you guys are too. Let's continue. He's gonna jump on But I said he was gonna do I know He parted ways with his long-time trainer and took to the famed Cronk gym Where he trained to utilize every pound of his massive frame And he is putting his body weight on wilder wilder needs to stay away from the That's the thing, man Round three of 12 round three of 12. I'm pretty sure dionte gets knocked down in this round He does he does he does in the third round. I thought it was all over man.   I was can you imagine what I was saying? I was literally. Oh my god Dionte Wilder's out in his feet third round third round of 12 Yes, there's blood coming out of the air every chance he got to lean on wilder Grabbing yeah, no for sure using his weight to his advantage. Absolutely and it worked that works energy Oh, this fight was incredible I believe you put that exercise on he used every bit of it as well for that fight making the fight and the ugly one Oh I think I was too pissed at this point. I don't actually remember this one, but it was incomplete consider. Remember the knockdown in the seventh Oh the body shot to knock it look at that That's in the fifth ground Wilder's down for a second time and fury knows he's on top Wilder's legs were gone starting the sixth round. We'll see if the champion can reassert These guys are so tall. It's unbelievable six nine and six seven Uh get in son The green gloves of the wbc bell Fitting they're fitting Oh He was looking his blood. I forgot about that. I literally forgot about that. Oh my god round seven. Here we go This is this is the beginning of the end This is the beginning of the end He's a top fighter. He's a bully fighter when a bully gets bullied. He falls bang, baby When the bully gets bullied he folds Oh Just legendary words from the great man. Tosh hearing one devastating attack after another Wilder's corner Ruin the towel. I remember that well training with sugar hill I'm pretty sure they came to the the post match uh post post fight press conference in visachi Visachi robes both of them and The gypsy king was back on top. He's a king who has fallen Rose again never rose. I feel like crying man as he did tonight. I literally feel like crying all the planet's That was amazing feed with dignity No, I'm just kidding. He went on an excuse of that Look at this that was extra weight then the ring walked then going up the stairs It was like a real workout for my legs when I took it off I knew immediately their game had changed and that's the thing when we saw The mask being taken off He goes like that But what was he really thinking? What was he really thinking? Oh my god. What have I done? What have I done? Either way no excuses for the third fight. We're about to get into it. Look it off. I knew immediately The game has changed. He blamed his costume for being too heavy. He blamed fury's gloves I didn't believe you put something hard on your glove Something the size and the shape of an egg wake is the reason why the side of my face swelled up in the egg wake Oh, I didn't I actually forgot about that. So Not only was the Well the the ring walk Somewhat of an excuse But he also accused Tyson fury of putting some sort of weight in his gloves and I believe it's because In a couple of in a couple of still photos of punches of certain punches of Tyson fury the glove did seem to um You know bend backwards and I you know, hey, I'm not a physicist I don't know how that happened But I don't believe that Tyson fury put concrete in his gloves Oh, he blamed his trainer for stopping the fight It took a crab and a bucket referee and the disloyal I'll tell you that much to go to town and just stop and so to silence the excuses once and for all A third and final fight was set between wilder and fury a fighter That is looking for redemption like water. I could see him going right back into camp many expected another fury victory But few could have anticipated what he'd be in store for The way I looked at his plate. There's a lot of Honestly bro, look mate. Look look. All right, okay So he's all about the masks.  I mean the masks are something else But he didn't quite have the um the the cloak That the heavy cloak that he had in the second fight either way There's no way you're going to use that mask as an excuse in the third fight Fury entered like a Spartan Wilder knew his oh my god, look at him man.  He is Tyson fury.   His size of fury just by his number and is he Oh, jeep is creepy. I am I am Yeah, I'm feeling it. I don't know if you guys are feeling it, but I am What about the fact that nobody thought that another heavyweight era was going to matter, right? I mean, let's be honest hoping to sap fury's strength Wilder targeted the body But fury quickly took control of the action See that's the thing you think of right hand from from from wilder is something But a right hand from fury is is justice.  He's got the green gloves of the WBC once again passing fury. Have a look at this rope a dope RIP here from users The third round knockdown made it appear the fight was over.  He's like what what happened?   I don't know how tyson fury did it You know that sits down every single other top heavyweight fighter Except for tyson fury. I don't know how he did it That is a that is a flush Right hand from deontay wilder Well, actually he didn't do it. No, that's right. No, he went down. He went down He did go down He did go down. He did go down but he got back up I'm sorry guys. I actually forgot about that But honestly after watching that punch.   Just incredible. That's powerful And he puts him down again. He puts him down again Yeah, that's right tyson fury goes down twice in the fall But as he is done his entire career. He's all right. He's he's okay He rose from the ashes. He rose from the dead And takes it to the 11th. Don't put your hand up, mate.  You need to win great fights to become a great fifth round. Let's go And what we have it might be wild Now I've got to be honest guys get in son go son bang left right Wilder needs to stay out of these clinches. This was Right, we're in the seventh round of the moment Oh nice wee jab there Well, it's not a wee jab.  Oh get in get in son get in son Yeah, that's right. He tried to he tried to tackle him. He tried tackle. This is the ninth round or tenth round But again the bronze bomber got up.   Both fighters have been down twice in the fight coming into the 11th round I literally would not know who's gonna win. I Geez, I wouldn't put my money on it. I I don't know. I wouldn't know I mean being a Tyson fury fan clearly. I'd say look if I had to put money on someone I'd put it on Tyson fury, but man That's the greatest fight I ever attended. We admire that That is courageous. That is my show that it is one of the greatest fights of the time Certainly the greatest trilogy of all time. He's so much involved and Eleventh round here we go. That's it the killer blow the killer blow The killer blow In the 11th round to have the strength To have the strength To do something like that in the 11th round After being knocked down twice yourself Walter can't really say too much There's his brother Oh, yeah, what an absolute can't that's the thing Tyson fury went over to his um Went over to his corner and said I respect you. He tried to get some, you know Some good vibes from Deontel water and do you want to Deontel water said no, I don't respect you I don't respect you one bit, but I mean he just got locked out. So I mean he's probably probably can't remember what he said But either way, I mean, I didn't really like that. I just like their all heavyweight champion of the world I mean talk about it shot in the arm and what he means to the sport it really is incredible He's one of the all-time greats Tyson, of course. He is the gypsy. Well, not only that, but he sung fucking sweet home, alabama after the After the fire nobody brings it home like a chill incident nobody make it so Look guys, I don't know how long this video went, but I just hope it's monetized either way if it's not Help the channel out help myself out by heading down into the description box below And checking out various ways you can support the channel through patreon through becoming a channel member where you get early access to videos or by Just donating randomly through buy me a coffee. Thank you for watching guys. Tyson fury is an absolute hero of mine And I don't say that lightly, you know, you've got John Lomu. You've got the likes of John Lomu rest in peace And you've got the likes of Tyson fury All right Those are my two sporting heroes much love and peace out