Deontay takes aim at his critics

By Boxing News - 10/18/2013 - Comments

deontay11By Scott Gilfoid: Undefeated heavyweight contender Deontay Wilder (29-0, 29 KO’s) shot some arrows at his critics today on his twitter account by saying that he’s going to prove all of his doubters wrong in the near future. Deontay has a fight against Nicolai Firtha (21-10-1, 8 KO’s) this month on October 26th on the undercard of the Bernard Hopkins vs. Karo Murat at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

This will give American fans a chance to see Deontay’s power unleashed on a pretty good heavyweight. Firtha is no pushover by any means. He’s got excellent power, and he’s been in some quality guys during his career.

Deontay said to on his twitter: “They’ll be sorry! Just when you think it’s possible that they are sleep, they never sleep, they just sit and wait on you like hungry dirty dogs #LoveIt.”

For some reason, Deontay has a legion of critics that believe he’ll never accomplish anything in his career, but he plans on showing all of them as soon as he gets a crack at one of the titles.

Deontay will likely get the last laugh at his critics after he captures one or more of the heavyweight world titles and becomes wealthy beyond anyone’s imagination.

If Deontay can stop Firtha in the 1st round, it’ll be Deontay’s 3rd consecutive 1st round knockout to go along with his 30th straight KO of his career. He’s moving in quickly on the heavyweight world record of 44 consecutive knockouts. That’s a mind-boggling amount of knockouts for anyone to have. It’s like something that happens so rare to have a fighter knockout opposition like this, and it’s impressive that it’s happening in this era so that boxing fans can see it happening before their own very eyes.

The real test for Deontay in terms of his consecutive knockout record is when he starts facing the likes of the Klitschko brothers, David Haye, Kubrat Pulev, Magomed Abdusalamov and Alexander Povetkin. Those guys are kind of tricky and they can all punch. If Deontay can keep his knockout streak going while beating these kinds of heavyweights, then it’s going to make him a huge star. The Klitschkos are going to be a real battle for Deontay because he would have to likely beat both of them.

For example, if Deontay destroys Wladimir in one or two rounds, you bet that Deontay would have to fight his brother Vitali Klitschko in his next fight instead of an immediate rematch with Wladimir. We saw that with Vitali avenging Wladimir’s knockout defeats against Corrie Sanders and Ross Puritty by stopping both of them. We also saw Wladimir avenge Vitali’s loss to Chris Byrd by beating him twice. I think we’ll see the same situation with Deontay having to fight both Klitschko brothers once he chops down the first one. But that’s actually a good thing because those fights will be huge in Europe and bring a lot of attention to the heavyweight division in the U.S. Victories over the Klitschkos would obviously quiet Deontay’s critics because they couldn’t say much after he beat both of the Klitschkos.