Tyson Fury gives cut man cash bonus for keeping Otto Wallin fight going – ‘he loves me’
- Jorge Capetillo says horrific cut above Fury’s eye was ‘the worst I’ve ever seen in the ring’
- ‘I knew they could stop the fight, I knew I had to keep it clean’
Tyson Fury was so grateful for the work his cut man did in keeping his fight against Otto Wallin going that he gave him a cash bonus.
Given the cut was opened up by a punch from Wallin, the unheralded 28-year-old would have walked away with a TKO victory – and Fury’s lineal heavyweight title.
“He gave me a bonus, that’s for sure,” Jorge Capetillo told TMZ Sports. “I saw him on Sunday morning at his house. I went to say ‘Hi’, to see how he was doing. He was so grateful, so happy. He’s a great human being. Yeah, he took care of me with a little bonus.”
Capetillo dutifully smothered the cut with vaseline in between rounds, with Wallin’s coach Joey Gamache instructing his fighter to target the deep wound.
Wallin even pawed at it with the thumb of his glove after one pull-apart by the referee, and the Swede even opened another deep cut on Fury’s eyelid.