Teary Wilder locked trainer outside changing room after Fury defeat

Deontay Wilder left his trainer Mark Breland “locked outside his changing room and in tears” after feeling incensed by his decision to throw in the towel in the seventh round against Tyson Fury.
Wilder was battered from pillar to post as Fury stripped him of his WBC world heavyweight title in Las Vegas, United States of America last weekend and inflicted his first defeat in a professional ring.
The Brit had dropped Wilder twice and had him in trouble again in the seventh before Breland chucked in the towel – a decision which subsequently cost him his job.
And now it has been claimed that Breland, who has been training Wilder since he turned over to the pro ranks in 2008, was refused entrance to the American’s dressing room after the fight with Fury.
“Mark Breland did the right thing, I’m backing Mark Breland, a beautiful human being,” former British fighter Spencer Fearon told PepTalkUK.
“Mark Breland was outside the changing room crying, did you know that? He was crying because that man said he couldn’t come in the changing room.
“That’s your fighter, you built your own personal relationship, you’ve been with this man from the get-go, and they are saying to you, ‘no, you can’t come in the changing room’.
“You see how deluded and twisted these guys are? And it’s not going to better.
“If Deontay Wilder doesn’t apologise to Mark Breland the same thing is going to happen again, and it’s going to be worse.”
Many felt Breland acted in the interests of Wilder’s safety and saved him from shipping further punishment with the WBC champion on unsteady legs.
However, Wilder’s main trainer Jay Deas, criticised his colleague after the fight by revealing he did not want him to throw in the towel.
34-year-old Wilder is expected to exercise his rematch clause for a trilogy bout against Fury, and has already indicated that Breland will not be present in his corner for that fight.
“I am upset with Mark for the simple fact that we’ve talked about this many times and it’s not emotional,” he said this week.
“I said as a warrior, as a champion, as a leader, as a ruler, I want to go out on my shield. If I’m talking about going in and killing a man, I expect the same way. I abide by the same principle of receiving.
“So I told my team to never, ever, no matter what it may look like, to never throw the towel in with me because I’m a special kind. I still had five rounds left. No matter what it looked like, I was still in the fight.”