By Scott Gilfoid: Unbeaten heavyweight Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) says he wants to take on the best contenders while en route to a heavyweight title shot in 2014. After Deontay takes care of his light work next month against Nicolai Firtha (21-10-1, 8 KO’s) on October 26th in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Deontay wanted to face a big name for his next bout, but he was unable to get any of the top fighters to agree to fight him on only 3 weeks’ notice.
Deontay wasn’t mentioned for the October 26th card until just recently, and that didn’t allow Golden Boy Promotions enough time to find a really big name for him.
Another problem Deontay had is his fight is buried on the undercard of the Bernard Hopkins vs. Karo Murat fight card, and Deontay is too far down on the card to have a lot of money for Golden Boy to offer a real big name the fight. Deontay would have to be the main event or the co-main event to get a top name.
Deontay says he wants one of the following heavyweights: Dereck Chisora, Tony Thompson or Bryant Jennings. You can pretty much rule out Chisora, because he’s not going to fly to the U.S. to fight Deontay, and you can’t expect Deontay to accommodate Chisora by flying over to the UK to fight him.
Showtime will be the one televising the fight, and I seriously doubt they’ll be okay with loading up an entire crew to fly all the way to the UK just to watch Deontay decimate a heavyweight who isn’t even ranked in the top 15 in the world rankings. Showtime would do it for a big name like David Haye no doubt, but for Chisora? I doubt it.
Deontay told RingTV “I want a Tony Thompson, I need a Bryant Jennings. I’m ready to shut some people up. We’ve been wanting Tony for a while. You can put [Bermane] Stiverne in there, too. I want them all. I want Chisora super bad so I can show my English fans.”
Tony Thompson would be a great opponent, because Golden Boy Promotions wouldn’t have to wrestle Thompson about coming over to the U.S, because he’s from the U.S.
Unfortunately, I don’t see Thompson agreeing to face a dangerous punchers like Deontay Wilder, because it would be a nightmare fight for him. Thompson doesn’t have the power to fight a guy like Deontay, and it would be a mismatch in a big way.
A fight against Jennings is probably the more realistic fight for Deontay, but Golden Boy would have to make a big offer to get Jennings and his promoter to agree to a fight against Deontay. Frankly, I don’t see it happening either. Deontay is too dangerous.
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