By Scott Gilfoid: Golden Boy Promotions CEO Richard Schaefer says he’d like to set up a fight between his fighter unbeaten heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (28-0, 28 KO’s) and the top British heavyweights David Price or Tyson Fury if they’re willing to fight him.
Schaefer doesn’t think they are, but he’s very, very interested in making that fight if either of them gets the courage to accept the fight with the 6’7” knockout artist Wilder.
Deontay stopped one of Britain’s best heavyweights in Audley Harrison in the 1st round last night in Sheffield. It’s too bad Britain’s two biggest heavyweights won’t step up to the plate to fight Deontay because it kind of looks bad that they don’t want to test themselves against him.
I have a lot of respect for Audley for doing the brave thing and accepting the fight with Deontay because not too many other fighters are willing to do this, but I don’t see Price or Fury ever agreeing to fight him. As far as Price goes, it may not matter if he gets beaten by Tony Thompson again. There would be no point in Deontay fighting Price after that because his career would be pretty much sunk after a second loss and Deontay wouldn’t waste his time fighting a guy heading towards the bottom.
Although Audley had been stopped in the 1st round previously by Price, Deontay was much faster in taking Audley out compared to Price and he looked a lot smoother and athletic in doing so.
Schaefer said at the post-fight press conference last night: “If David Price or Tyson Fury are interested [in fighting Deontay] then let us know. We are certainly interested and ready. I think some of your colleges don’t think that’s going to happen because they’re not going to fight, because we certainly would.”
Of course, Price and Fury aren’t going to fight a talent like Wilder. Fury already basically said no to the Wilder fight twice and nothing is going to change now that Deontay has destroyed one of the UK’s best heavyweights in an impressive fashion.
Price has problems of his own right now after getting blown out by an out of shape 41-year-old Tony Thompson in a 2nd round knockout last February. Price is fighting Thompson in a rematch on July 6th at the Echo Arena in Liverpool, and if Price gets blasted out again in that fight then he might as well be put out to pasture and either retire or be content to campaign as a domestic level fighter with what’s left of his career.
Fury was exposed by the 210 pound Steve Cunningham this month in getting dropped hard in the 2nd round and needing to stay down a long time before he got back up. Deontay saw that fight and says there’s no way on earth that Fury would have escaped that round had he gotten back up in a fight against him. Deontay says he’d have finished him off and I agree with that.
Cunningham was gassed after throwing that one punch, but Deontay would be just getting started. He can punch harder than that with every shot for 12 rounds if he has to, and of course, Fury wouldn’t be able to take those huge sledgehammer blows from Deontay.
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